Country Info
- Doha
- Capital
- Qatari Rial (QAR)
- Currency
- 769,152
- Population
- QA
- Country Code
Doha Slideshow
Travel Blogs from Doha, Qatar
Corniche Collaboration: Cultural Festival, Qatar
... to down near the stage. It was to be a grand spectacle. However, mere hours before the show began a storm blew up over Doha that brought gale-force winds and torrential rain. It whipped the bay up into a sea of froth and pushed onto the corniche with ...
2/3
Chegamos no Qatar! O voo foi tranquilo, chacoalhou um pouco pra desespero do Bes que acordava assustado para apertar o cinto. Essa mistura de pessoas e culturas e incrível. Aqui a gente percebe que o mundo e tão maior do que Sao Paulo. O ...
Qatar (Or: The Layover From Hell)
When we changed the date of our Athens to Bangkok flight, we had to take a 9-hour overnight layover in Doha, Qatar. The night before we left, our travel agent called to say that that Qatar regulations prohibited us from staying in the airport ...
Mafi Mushkila (No problem in Arabic)
... So excited to see my friend, Julia, who transferred to Doha from the Four Seasons in Chicago. Most jobs in Doha come with accommodation, so I'm staying with her. Right away when you land in the airport, you know you are in a very ...
Oil Money
... -seasoned meatball. I feel horrible about it though. Today a group of us drove out to the center of Qatar, far away from Doha or even any villages. We drove off the rode and through the desert a bit, until we came across a ...
Delayed in Doha
I had to stay overnight in Doha because the flight from London was delayed and I missed my connection to Nepal. After an 30min of faffing about at the airport and talking to different staff at three different transfer desks I figure ...
The never ending journey
Another eight hour stopover! Here are some highlights from the lounge at Doha airpot. ...
Our new city
I left from Nice on October 31, 2007 for Doha, Qatar. I was to connect in Frankfurt but missed the connection (along with 60 other planes!) due to heavy fog. What ensued was night-marish! All of my ideas of perfect German organisation were thrown out of ...
D'oh, a... very sad goodbye
... it is to be parted from East Africa, I still have a spicy Egyptian-shaped chunk of North Africa to come. I am in Doha, capital of Qatar and home to the 2022 Football World Cup. My first impressions are that they had better improve the airport before then ...
Winter to Summer in Just 18 Hours
... was climbing into the sky and leaving Istanbul behind, far below. The cheapest flights we found were through Qatar Air, which meant a short layover in Doha before moving onto South Africa. The flight from Istanbul to Doha was less than four hours, which ...
Doha, an 8 hour layover
... 10 hours I should arrive to Rome. I will update this blog with pics of the last few places then write a once last blog about Asia in general, what stuck with me and what I noticed. It will surely be a nice read. For now bye to everyone from ...
Enroute
... a bag or my ATM card - woo hoo! Checked out of the hostel at 6:30, grabbed a taxi and off to KTM airport. My airlines - Qatar - bumped me up to First Class. Could it be guilt feelings over having lost my bag? I dont know but I was living in ...
Going to Dubai on Qatar Airways
After a couple of days in London, we left the UK in the best possible manner. Middle Eastern airlines are known to be excellent and Qatar Airways is no exception. We had to travel via Doha, captital of ...
The Delights of Doha
... was fun to see French ladies sipping coffee next to local men in traditional dress (and some young women) smoking shisha pipes. So if Qatar airways is offering a deal from Aus to Europe to rival Emirates and you fancy a stop-over in this part of the ...
Doha (London to Singapore stop off)
... to a chap from India who couldnt speak English (although we tried many a time to strike up a conversation without much joy) I landed in Doha en route. I only had a 1 1/2 hour wait which wasn't bad and a lot of that was eaten up with the bus ride from ...
Stop #8
... about Qatar, he told us that there was not any GREEN GRASS!!! It is a desert area. In fact, today the temperature in Qatar was 117 degrees Fahrenheit!!! WOW! Not only that, the humidity was 51%! That is HOT! Although he did not see any McDonald's, he did ...
My trip to the Philippines transit through QATAR
My trip to the Philippine island's, i visiting the Philippine from the 10th of January and to the end of march i really want to enjoy and have enough fun with new friends and to learn the Philippine language, and bit of the culture. i had ...
Two weeks into life in Qatar
Too many photos no doubt and probably of all the same thing felt like a japanese tourist just clicking camera. Trying to give an idea of how working area looks. Basically working in finance area also known as West Bay and it is literally like an ...
Off to Qatar
... waited for the flight. We opted to go to Johannesburg on Qatar Airways, which meant that we were actually heading to Doha, the capital of Qatar, to pick up our connecting flight. Qatar Airways seems to be trying to model themselves on Emirates, and set ...
First Impressions...
... Alan for putting up with us for sooo long!!) Then came the flight to London, what a disaster! Don't get me wrong; Qatar Airways is a great company! But I wish they would put I restriction on babies flying on long flights!! On both the Doha and ...
Last Days in Paradise
... last beach day we got to see a turtle whilst snorkelling which was amazing! So we said goodbye to Seychelles ridiculously early this morning, now in Doha with 5 1/2 hours til our flight to bangkok! Miss you all lots Lindsay and Laura ...
Doha- Cairo
Doha (Qatar) airport was much nicer than Bangkok and had alot more comfortable seating available. Luckily there wasn't too long a wait here, about 2 hours, then I boarded another Qatar airlines flight to Cairo. It was an interesting flight filled with all ...
Doha....was hot.
Believe it or not, the best way to get to Nairobi from Morocco was through Qatar on Qatar Airways. So we decided to do a quick stopover to check it out. It was HOT (40 plus celsius)..this land was probably not meant to be inhabitated when you have ...
Doha
... on this visit that they didn't care which line we stood in to get the passport stamped. Finally we were on our Qatar Airways flight to Doha. Talk about chalk and cheese. A new aircraft with the air conditioning on, clean facilities, friendly staff, and a ...
Happy Mothers Day with Love!
Dear Mom, Thank you for bringing me to life. When i was still in your womb I kept kicking to get out - all you wanted was for me to see how beautiful the world is. When i was 2 i learned to walk, i kept running away from you - all you did was ...
Markhya
i have just noticed that en 6ool 3umry eli 3ishto hina kona bnin3el men beet l beet bas kan daiman f mar5ya so ana mar5awaia awe ya3ni :D o baftekir ezai et'3ayar el makan men lama kont balif f bus el madrasa el sob7 bta3 el 2ibtda2i till now big big ...
No camel races scheduled!
Brief stop over in Doha. Flat and sand everywhere. Everything is sand coloured - at least what we saw out the window of the plane coming in and out the airport window. Lots of muslim pilgrims heading to mecca boarding a flight to Jeddah, obvious in their ...
Stopover in Doha
Auf dem Rueckweg hatte ich 12 h Aufenthalt in Doha und nutzte die Gelegenheit, mir die Stadt mal naeher anzuschauen... Aber ausser shopping malls und der wirklich schoenen Strandpromenade gabs da nicht viel zu sehen. Jedenfalls nicht in ein paar ...
Transit.
... hold his. 08 June - Night(mare) in Doha Okay, so I made it through the flight without too much unpleasantness, arriving in Doha, Qatar at just around midnight. The first thing I tried to do was to confirm my return flight because I didn't want to ...