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● Qatar Airways flies
direct to Doha.
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For FIFA World Cup
packages including
match tickets, flights, and
accommodation, go to
qatarairways.com/
FIFA2022
● Souq Waqif Boutique
Hotels by Tivoli have
room rates from $159.
tivolihotels.com
● For information on
sand dune 4WD drive
be overwhelmed by the sound of birdsong murals of royalty taking part in the art From left: Exploring with skeletons of falcons, maps of their tours and more, visit
from the bird market – it also sells rabbits of falconry. Souq Waqif; the locations and the life cycle of the bird.
and other pets – or by the smells of spices The national bird of Qatar, these birds national bird, the Down the road from the falcon souk
discoverqatar.qa
piled high in hessian sacks. are treated like rock stars. Falconry is falcon, is treated are camel stables where the
Of particular note is the falcon souk and believed to have originated in the 7th like a rock star; dromedaries are cared for and dressed
the neighbouring falcon hospital, which century and now there are more than Khor Al-Adaid in colourful woven blankets by day. city that knows where it is going and is
offers tours to visitors. The falcon souk 1500 words for falcons and falconry along (Inland Sea). Late in the afternoon they are saddled boldly striding towards the future, but still
has its own building surrounded by a the Arabian Peninsula. The living up for the local police who patrol the has one hoof planted firmly in its past.
covered walkway to protect it from the embodiment of this devotion is the falcon Amiri Diwan, or parliament building,
heat and inside the birds sit on perches. hospital, four floors of bird medical next door. Watching these traditional The writer was a guest of Qatar Airways.
Most are not for sale, but being trained to specialists including orthopaedics, modes of Bedouin transport lope along
wait for the owners who are elsewhere in radiography and molecular biology. the grass in front of parliament, with
the souk shopping – like falcon daycare. The waiting room has a huge silver skyscrapers sparkling in the distance,
You can buy extravagant hoods, stand of waiting perches for the patients you realise that Doha does a great job
Find more Qatar tips
paraphernalia and even GPS locators in that looks like a giant candleholder and of marrying its desert history with its at escape.com.au/
the falcon souk, as you peruse extravagant there is a small museum attached as well future as an international city. It is a qatar101

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