The Opportunity District presents unexpected connections between countries and cultures. Join us as we visit Mali and Morocco and uncover their wonders. Earn points and top the leaderboard, win badges and reveal treasures. Your points convert to Seeds of Change which you can pledge to the cause of your choice. Enjoy watching the show and create a Facebook or Twitch account to join the chat and earn points! Photosensitivity warning: some locations in Live@Expo broadcasts may feature bright flashing lights that may affect photosensitive viewers.

Ep 16: Morocco and Mali Pavilions

211104 Live@Expo Visual DEC-02 - 2

The Opportunity District presents unexpected connections between countries and cultures which we explore today! Join us as we visit Mali and Morocco and uncover their wonders.

Learn about the history of the River of Gold in Mali...and the incredible story of Mansa Musa!

Explore immersive experiences at the Morocco Pavilion and end with traditional Moroccan tea and biscuits.

Use your Facebook, YouTube, Tik Tok or Twitch account to join the chat and earn points!

Interactive, chat-driven tour co-curated by you, the audience.

OA15A TW 427

stamp mali

Mali Image Gallery

Ever since word first spread centuries ago about the vast wealth in mysterious Timbuktu, West African nation Mali has been a place of global intrigue and rich legend. The Mali Pavilion beckons visitors to explore a “River of Gold” on the hunt for the country’s ancestral treasures, surveying Mali’s fascinating history and burgeoning economy along the way. You’ll turn the digitised pages of Timbuktu’s ancient handwritten manuscripts, learn about Malian aquaculture and hydroelectric power, and more.


Mali

Mali 3

Mali Pavilion

Morocco Pavilion

stamp Morocco

Gallery

For thousands of years, Morocco’s Berber people have built their traditional squared homes and villages out of mud brick, producing structures that have stood for centuries. The Morocco Pavilion at Expo 2020 advances this form in dazzling style, combining modern design and rich heritage to create a uniquely vertical journey through Morocco.

As you ascend the ramp through the pavilion, you’ll experience ancient streetscapes and cutting-edge innovations: everything from traditional Moroccan gardens to one of the world’s largest solar-energy plants, Noor-Ouarzazate. It all ends with a stunning panoramic view from the pavilion’s rooftop area.


Morocco

Traditional vertical mud-brick villages get a modernist makeover at the Morocco Pavilion. Over a dozen giant blocks formed from hundreds of earthen cubes are stacked in a loose, offset pattern to create a lively, four-storey tower that faintly glows with rusty orange warmth. 

Interior of the Morocco Pavilion Web Image m41387

meets rich heritage

Modern design

Live@Expo Ep 16: Morocco and Mali Pavilions

Welcome to an interactive live tour where you and a community of virtual visitors from around the world control where the guide goes and what you see! Earn points and top the leaderboard, win badges and reveal treasures. Your points convert to Seeds of Change which you can pledge to the cause of your choice.

Live@Expo

Join a new virtual tour of the Expo! You control where the guide goes as they explore Expo 2020.

L&E logo

Let's eat our way through the Opportunity District and learn how different countries celebrate this festive time of year! After, we will visit the amazing Colombia and Monaco pavilions. Photosensitivity warning: some locations in Live@Expo broadcasts may feature bright flashing lights that may affect photosensitive viewers.

Ep 40: Colombia and Monaco Pavilions - Eat the Expo

211104 Live@Expo Visual DEC-07

Let's eat our way through the Opportunity District and learn how different countries celebrate this festive time of year at the famous Al Reef Bakery. We then visit the Colombia and Monaco Pavilions.


Earn badges, go on treasure hunts and top the leaderboard!

Monaco 

stamp Monaco

Monaco Carousel

A kaleidoscope is only a small tube, but look through its lens and an entire galaxy of colour explodes into view. This is the philosophy behind the prismatic Monaco Pavilion, an exquisitely designed offering from one of the world’s tiniest nations that nevertheless showcases a wealth of Monégasque treasures.

From first sight, the pavilion dazzles with its gemlike, solar-panel-covered main façade, inspired by the principality’s legendary Rock of Monaco. And just like the famously maze-like streets of Monaco itself, the pavilion’s layout offers surprises around every corner: interactive penguins, unforgettable kaleidoscopic visual displays and more.


Fantastical, multi-coloured “Garden of Opportunities” to explore 

Dazzling mirrored “kaleidoscope” you can walk through

Multiple levels replicating the maze-like layout of Monaco

Monaco Features

Monaco patner

The Monaco Pavilion honors the country’s legendary Rock of Monaco with a design that centres on a large, boulder-like structure covered in reflective solar panels at the front of a long, rectangular building. Visitors climb up a series of ramps set amid a stylized rocky terrain planted with trees and flowers to reach the striking, stone-like form. The sides of the pavilion are painted with a colorful, dazzling kaleidoscopic pattern, echoing the mirror-like motif of its grand centrepiece. 

5902

of Monaco 

Rock 

Monaco Pavilion

Colombia Pavilion

stamp Colombia

Colombia Carousel

From the streets of Bogotá and beyond, the entire world dances to the beats of Colombian music stars like Shakira and J Balvin. At the lively Colombia Pavilion, you’ll see — and most importantly, hear — how this infectious rhythm connects the nation to a thriving future of culture, innovation and urban growth.

The pavilion’s airy, free-ranging design represents Colombia itself, open and unbounded. In and around its four light-filled floors, an abundance of rhythmic attractions awaits: interactive instruments that let you play along with the music, a giant digital jukebox, holographic light shows and more.


colombia logo

The Colombia pavilion’s airy, playful design looks more like a three-dimensional checkerboard than a traditional building. The structure trades typical walls for a rectangular grid of colossal white metal beams and transparent panels and floors, which meet at varying levels to create a four-story tower of platforms, open air plazas, and spacious rooms that peek out in unexpected directions. 


6110

that connects us to the future

The rhythm 

Live@Expo Ep 40: Colombia and Monaco Pavilions

Happy Water Week from Expo! Today we'll bounce from a country island in the South Pacific Ocean and travel all the way to East Africa. We'll also sample some delicious dishes from across the globe along the way. Let's get started! Photosensitivity warning: Some areas in Live@Expo broadcasts may feature bright flashing effects that may affect photosensitive viewers.

Ep 95:  New Zealand and Zambia Pavilions

220309 Live@Expo Visual MAR-05

Today we'll bounce from a country island in the South Pacific Ocean and travel all the way to East Africa. We'll also sample some delicious dishes from across the globe along the way. Let's get started!

New Zealand Pavilion

stamp New Zealand

The Whanganui River is so important to New Zealand’s Maori people that in 2017, it was granted a special legal identity, giving it the rights of a citizen. Now, the New Zealand Pavilion offers a sweeping cultural tour narrated by the Whanganui River itself.

With a design inspired by the Maori tradition of hand-crafting containers to safeguard items of value, the pavilion leads you on a journey of conservation where the greatest treasure to be protected is our natural world. Immerse yourself in the river’s story, deepen the experience with the pavilion’s web-based app, and journey through a 10-metre-high “vertical river” of water droplets.


New Zealand

The New Zealand Pavilion features a tall box clad in titanic wavy panels of chainmail-like architectural mesh called Kaynemaile. Its flexible façade pulses to evoke a living building and sits on a base crafted from New Zealand Abodo eco-timber. The ground floor’s wooden exterior lends a warm feel to the modernist design, welcoming visitors through a small gap beneath the mammoth Kaynemaile panels.

Visitors at the New Zealand Pavilion Web Image m48842

'kaitiakitanga'

Maori

Zambia 3

stamp Opportunity-Zambia

Zambia Image Gallery

A peaceful land of vast lakes and rivers, magnificent waterfalls, and abundant wildlife, Zambia is a natural destination for those wishing to experience the true spirit of Africa. At its Expo 2020 pavilion, the famously hospitable country extends a hearty invitation to jump into the flow of Zambian life. Sway along to traditional dances, get lost in dramatic rituals and storytelling performances, or take an exciting safari across Zambia’s vast plains and down its rushing waterways. Then, meet Zambian innovators to learn how they are pushing their country forward in sectors such as agro-processing, energy, tourism and mining.    

Zambia

Visitor at the Zambia Pavilion Web Image m15243

Zambia Pavilion

Live@Expo Ep 95:  New Zealand and Zambia Pavilions

There's not only a lot to see around Expo, there's a lot to smell! We're touring some of the Mobility District's most fragrant pavilions, devoted to everything from nutmeg to roses to frankincense.

Ep 43: Oman, Bulgaria and Grenada Pavilions

Live@Expo Oman, Bulgaria and Botswana Pavilions RS

Oman pavilion

stamp Oman

The Oman Pavilion takes visitors on a panoramic tour of one of the Arabian Peninsula’s great treasures: frankincense, used in perfumes and incense since ancient times.

Omanis have been harvesting and trading this precious resin for some 5,000 years, and their expertise, care and innovation are on full display in every corner of the whimsically tree-shaped pavilion. Visit with a hyper-real animatronic Boswellia sacra tree, learn the resin’s history and heritage from virtual-reality storytellers, explore a botanical “library of life” tended by robots – or just let the delicate aromas of frankincense relax you at the pavilion’s scent bar.


Oman

The Oman Pavilion is both mystical and futuristic. Pale wood slats are vertically arranged to form a trunk that balloons out, stretching upward in an organic, tree-like shape. The structures branches vary in width and weight and cup a white drum-like building patterned with lacy shapes that resemble roots and leaves. 


Oman 2 

by frankincense

Inspired

Oman Pavilion

Bulgaria cover

stamp Bulgaria

Bulgaria Image Gallery

With lofty mountains in the west, the glistening Black Sea in the east and plenty of cosy mineral springs in between, Bulgaria boasts a wealth of stunning sights to explore. And as the Bulgaria Pavilion at Expo 2020 shows, the Balkan nation offers much more: from rich culture to high-tech innovation to winter sports. Exhibits include a (virtual) walk across the bed of the Black Sea, 3D projections of the nation’s beautiful landscapes, and traditional Bulgarian folk dances.


Bulgaria Logo

Bulgaria intro image

Bulgaria Pavilion

Botswana 1

stamp Botswana

Image Gallery

The African nation of Botswana shines with promise. At the Botswana Pavilion, you can follow the country’s impressive journey through the creative, colourful analogy of a plant’s growth, from the diamond mining and cattle industries that planted its seeds to the technological innovation and cultural cross-pollination that are helping the nation branch out. Explore Botswana’s vibrant fashion and art scene. Revel in the nation’s near mystical connection to the natural world, then meet the citizens that continue to keep Botswana in bloom. 


Live@Expo Ep 16: Morocco and Mali Pavilions

Ep 16: Morocco and Mali Pavilions

Highlights

Participants

Live@Expo.