Our second museum today was opened in March 2019. French architect Jean Nouvel’s sprawling desert-rose-inspired structure is spectacular (๐๏ธ 50 QAR). It houses 1.5km of galleries organized into three ‘chapters’: Beginnings, Life in Qatar, and Building the Nation...
It took us a few hours to explore the world’s most extensive collection of Islamic art, drawn from three continents. This fabulous museum (๐๏ธ 50 QAR) is so rich in treasure that it rewards short, intense visits. Rising from its purpose-built island and set in an extensive landscape...
We didn’t plan it, but it happened; we spent a week in Qatar’s capital, Doha. It is located on the east coast of the Qatar Peninsula in the Persian Gulf. More than two-fifths of Qatar’s population lives within the city’s limits. Situated on a shallow bay indented...
We made a short stop at Al Wakrah’s enormous and enchanting souq. It is a maze of alleyways and courtyards, full of renovated clay structures, traditional architecture, a mosque, and stables. Some shops sell everything from honey, spices, and dates to perfumes and souvenirs...
We wanted to explore the Inland Sea, also known as the Khor Al Adaid, located on the border between Qatar and Saudi Arabia. Due to low precipitation and high temperatures, the seawater is saltier than the water in the adjacent bay. Over time, a unique ecosystem has formed in Khor al...
Our first stop was at Sealine Beach, one of Qatar’s most popular public beaches, where the towering dunes of southern Qatar begin. Sealine Beach sits at the end of the east road, around an hour’s drive south of Doha, past Qatar’s petroleum refineries and natural gas...
We moved towards the KSA border after dinner with Luna and other travelers in Abu Dhabi. Our last stop to relax and work before crossing it was Al Sila Beach, nestled in the rolling dunes of the Arabian Desert some 350 kilometers west of Abu Dhabi in Al Dhafra. It’s an excellent...
After our service in Saluki Motorsport, we spent our free afternoon again in Old Dubai around the Al Fahidi historical district. We got there by Dubai Metro (๐๏ธ8 AED, GOLD๐๏ธ 14 AED), it was supposed to take us some 14 minutes to walk from the Sharaf DG Metro Station, so we first had a...
We had the great honor of meeting HH Sheikh Hamad Bin Hamdan Al Nahyan and had a great time with him on a private tour of his unique museum, where he took us through several large halls and introduced us to his collection of more than 500 cars. We were lucky to inspect with him the fresh...
The paved road brought us through the desert scenery to the Moreeb Dune (Tal Moreeb). This is the edge of the beautiful but fearsome Rub Al Khali, and undulating, orange sand-dune fields rim both sides of the road along the route. The bitumen runs out at the foot of Tal Moreeb (the name...