Country Info
- Doha
- Capital
- Qatari Rial (QAR)
- Currency
- 769,152
- Population
- QA
- Country Code
Doha Slideshow
Travel Blogs from Doha, Qatar
New Years Eve
... our small suitcase inside and asked if it was too early to check in. They said "no problem" (nothing is a problem in Qatar) and checked us in. The bellboy even brought us champagne flutes filled with pineapple juice while we checked in. Our hotel room is ...
Ramadan Mubarak!
Ramadan Mubarak! (Happy Ramadan!) Today starts the first day of Ramadan. In order to get a better understanding of the religion and culture, I decided to fast today. Fasting is a time to practice self restraint and to become closer to ...
The exausting part of travelling
... to 7 Egyptian pounds. He even ended up paying. He hung out with me at the airport till his dad came to pick him up. Qatar is an amazing airline. The service can't be beat. They keep feeding you. Private screens where i watched "Jonases". The mivie made ...
Postojanka v Dohi
Po 8 in pol urnem letu, ki nas je pustil razocarane (dobili smo letalo brez individualnih ekranckov, na glavnih monitorjih pa so en film zavrteli 2x zapored....) smo prispeli v Doho in 8 urno cakanje na naslednji let se je pricelo. Spravili smo se v ...
First day in the Middle East
We arrived at the airport in Doha at about 2am this morning. We went through immigration where we got our visas. The women behind the desks were all dressed in black, cloaked in veils. The woman helping us was very pleasant and completely avoided looking ...
To Dubai and Doha
... as a souvenir. It was nice flying Singapore Airlines again. This time I was flying to Dubai, then on Qatar to Doha. The flight was very nice. There were only four of us in First Class on the B777-300. ...
Adventures in Personal Banking
... bank than a couple of days ago, to open a personal chequing account. For this, as with so many other things in Qatar, one needs a "no objection certificate" (NOC) from their employer. For a bank account, the NOC basically just states ...
Excited for first vacation
Haven't written anything in ages. Work is busy and I still don't have internet at my apartment but I'm latching on to a neighnours at the moment. Ramadan is nearing an end and that means a statutory holiday (Eid Al Fitr) is also coming ...
Qatar...pays de l onyx
Top 5: Qatar Airways 1- Menu pour le souper! Un vrai repas comme dans le bon vieux temps et qu'on ne retrouve maintenant qu’en première classe. 2- Surprises telles que petits bas, pochette a argent, ...
Surfer's night out
... 8217;s grape which was better but I won’t be rushing out to buy my own hookah. At any rate, shisha is a quintessential Qatar/Middle East experience and I’m sure this won’t be my last time. Our last stop on our big night out was the ...
Officially a Resident
... ;s had the same thing happen in Canada where they were determined not to be of any particular concern but, of course, the Qatar officials don’t care what Canadian doctors have said. After weeks of going from hospitals to clinics seeing various ...
Prihod v Doho
Prvo mozno javljanje iz samsungove internet tocke na letaliscu v Dohi. Mukotrpno 6 urno cakanje na mukotrpen 6 urni let :D Slikice sledijo :) Naslednje javljanje ...
Welcome to Steve's Qatar Blog!
... ; More on what I do in a future post. Al Udeid is a Qatari military facility about 20 km west of Doha, the only major city in Qatar. I don’t know what the actual agreement is, but the Qatari government allows the US and several other ...
Hotter than Hell
As some of you may or may not have known, we had a layover in Doha, Qatar. So, since we figured it was probably our only chance to see any part of the middle east, we decided to stay for a day just to see what the city was like...and boy are we glad we ...
Finally!
... International Airport wondering why I decided to schedule my flight out of here 9 ½ hours after my flight from Kandahar got in. Qatar Airways doesn't check you in until three hours before the flight. I knew this. I sat in the terminal ...
Doha - Light Reading
You know you have lived in the Gulf too long when: - You need a sweater when it's 80 degrees Fahrenheit - Your idea of housework is leaving a list for the houseboy - You send friends a map instead of your address - You believe that ...
Welcome to Doha - The city of construction
... attached) ·Dress-up roof party about 80 people on our roof till 4am, ·Shopping at the 6 different shopping centres around Doha, ·B'day dinners ·Night Boat outing to a sand island in the middle of the Gulf swimming, jetskiing and partying till ...
Tonight I am eating an MRE!
Tonight I'm eating an MRE! That's "Meal, Ready to Eat," the bag-o-chow that has been feeding the soldier in the field ever since 1980, according to my online souces http://www.mreinfo.com/us/mre/mres.html. Maybe not the ...
Partying in the Sand
... interesting place (and also check up that I was looking after myself - I think I'm doing quiet well, hey mum??). After staying in Doha for 4 days, they then headed off to Dubai and had a ball doing all the touristy things, going on a desert safari and ...
The Apartment Saga!!
... were going to be neighbors which was great. So on the Wednesday night of the first week I arrived we went and picked up our Doha hire car (lovely Green Renault Cleo!!! that will be our life saver for the next 6 month, not a fan of waiting in 40degree ...
Embrace the Heat
I am staying in Qatar with my friend Maria, who is not the same Maria mentioned in previous posts who visited me in France and Spain. This Maria was in the School of Education with me at Boston University, and now teaches and lives in ...
Spiral mosque (Doha, Qatar)
... spiral mosque of the Kassem Darwish Fakhroo Islamic Centre is a recent construction - It has become in a few years one of Doha's most famous landmarks. This is not a traditional Qatari mosque but a replica of the Great Mosque of Al-Mutawwakil in Samarra ...
Qatar
We arrived in Doha - Qatar at 11pm and it was 32oC. A little bit of a shock to the system as when we left England it was about 10oC! It felt as if someone had left the engines of the plane on as it was so ridiculously hot. We managed to get all of ...
The Pearl and a Lamborghini
... then headed out to Katara Cultural Center…which is right next to where they are BUILDING sand dunes. I guess to make Doha look more “Arabian”?!?! These people have way too much money. It was Sunday, a weekday, so ...
Last Day in Doha
Spent the day catching up on homework while Julia went to work. It's amazing how I can blog and 900 words, just write themselves but if I have to do it for a paper, it takes me all day and is a daunting task. I wish I would’ve been able to see the ...
4 countries, 4 flights, 36hours, not much sleep #4
I'm almost there, I'm almost there!!! When we got off the plane in Doha I was wishing I'd paid up the extra $500 for a direct flight from Singapore to London. Then I thought I'd happily pay 10 times that just to have flown direct. Money solves ...
Bye Switzerland
So I left Switzerland last night. Im now in Doha waiting for a connection flight which has been delayed. I figured that this would be a good time to reflect on my time in Switzerland over the last year. But Im not going to because I am too tired and cant ...
Doha Airport
Well here I am at Doha airport in transit for my flight to Istanbul. I have 9 hours to rattle around here and so I have paid to go into the Oryx lounge which, let me tell you, is very worth while... free coffee, tea and sandwiches, comfy chairs and ...
