The Middle East- a day in Qatar
Trip Start
Mar 01, 2008
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Trip End
Sep 2008
So from Asia, to all the way down to South Africa, this long distance consisted of two 8 hour+ flights, with an 8 hour layover in the Middle East, in the small country of Qatar in the city of Doha, which borders Saudi Arabia. Our airline gave us a hotel with lunch included for the afternoon since we had such a long layover. It is very hot and dry desert, pretty much anywhere you look its just brown. The buildings, the ground, the sky, its all just sand floating around, not quite the loveliest city we've been to, but it was nice to be able to check out a new area of the world for free which wasn't in our itinerary. Since we only had a few hours and there wasn't too much to do here, we headed to one of the malls which was actually quite lovely inside. I can't remember the name of the mall, but different areas would represent different times of the day with murals on the ceiling of blue sky and clouds for day, or the evening had little streetlamps, there was even a small river with gondolas floating through middle. Suffering from H & M and Krispy Kreme deprivation for months, some guilty pleasures from home were welcome, on our way to South Africa.
