Our flight from Delhi involved a 14-hour stopover in Doha, Qatar. We took a 3-hour city tour. Doha is the polar opposite of India, all modern, clean, and orderly. The architecture is very unusual.
The Doha skyline as viewed from the airport.
The building in the center looked like a cone, but that was an illusion.
A high-rise office building called the “Tornado Tower”.
Qatar International Islamic Bank.
Woqod Office Tower, the pointy building on the left.
Doha Tower houses businesses in the West Bay district.
I wasn’t sure what to make of this thumb in the Souq Waqif.
There are still many ruined or well-preserved “luxury” accommodation buildings across the ancient land, which are specially designed and constructed for pigeons. Named “pigeon towers”, each of such bird homes, where the droppings could be collected and used as fertilizer, can hold as many as 14,000 pigeons.
This looked to me like a camel parking lot.
The giant gift-wrapped box is a children’s toy store.
Even the street lamps were unusual.
We visited their main mosque that the guide said was unusual because it was designed by a woman.
In the distance we could see the changing of the guard at the government palace, Amiri Diwan, on camels.
Burj Al Mana apartment building.
The national Museum of Qatar.
Now we’re back at the airport, waiting to fly home.
Lamp Bear by Swiss artist Urs Fischer took centre stage in the grand foyer leading to Hamad International Airport’s duty-free hall. It is a 23-foot canary yellow teddy bear sculpted from bronze, that sits peacefully inside a lamp. This playful piece humanizes the space around it and reminds travelers of childhood or precious objects from home.
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