Doha: Consturction City

The construction in Doha, the largest city in Qatar, seemed to be endless. Its seems to be a town that has almost sprung up over night and has been trying to establish itself as the commerce and cultural center on the Arabian Peninsula, in a similar way to Dubai. Unlike Dubai, Doha is built on a foundation of Oil and even under the recent financial crisis, it is still growing.

 

Oilfields an hour outside Doha City

  Inside the city center

 What a lot of the city would look like 15 years ago

 

A dumping ground for rubble and dirt outside the city

Architects vision for park area in Doha

 View from City Center Mall the larges mall in Qatar

 

 

Construction workers gather at the end of the day to be taken back to the work camps

Doha is a place that can only be experienced from a distance, it is hard to get close to anything.

Out of hand

I just turned up, this is what i found.

 

  

  

  

 

Hot and Muggy

 

My last road trip took me down to a joust where  hung out with some vikings for a night, I wanted to take more photos at this event but i always find it hard to bust out my camera when they are trying to keep their surrounding as historically correct as possible. After leaving the joust, i ended up at a wedding where beer cooled you down in the extremely hot sun, and whiskey kept you from going insane at night when it was still hot and muggy.  I also so stopped by a river to do some fishing where i left my camera in the mud for a few day (as stated in earlier entries). It was so hot that you could stick coins to anywhere on your body and they would stick to your skin. 

 

 

Eight hours of turning a pork over the fire. Never seen so much crackling in my life.