QATAR

Oil reach, like every country else in the Arabic Peninsula, Qatar has also become natural gas rich these last years, so there is no shortage of capitals and new housing projects and megalo-developments, neither surely of sand. I visited Qatar in 2005 for several days, which allowed me to walk a lot (strange by local standards, with hot days and petrol absolutely inexpensive!)in the capital, Doha, and to visit out-of-town interesting features with a rented car. From the Al-Corniche Street to the Fort, in central Doha, and from the Zubarah Fort to the port of Al Khor, from the camel racing track to the Sheik Faisal Museum, from driving aside huge chemical or oil plants to high dunes south of them, I paid a visit to more or less every thing worth of.
(The high building on the middle picture is the hotel where took place in 2001 the initial negotiations of the World Trade Organisation known as the Doha Round)