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Doha itinerary

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    Souq Waqif - Doha's Restored Market and Evening Hub

    Souq Waqif is the oldest trading ground in Doha and the easiest place to start. Merchants have bartered on this patch of land beside Wadi Musheireb for well over a century, though the mud-rendered walls and exposed…

    Address
    Souq Waqif, Al Souq Street, Al Jasrah, Zone 13, Doha
    Nearest transit
    Souq Waqif station (Doha Metro Gold Line), 5-min walk via Al Souq Street; the free Metrolink M117 feeder bus circles the surrounding blocks
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    Museum of Islamic Art - I. M. Pei's Island Landmark

    The Museum of Islamic Art sits on its own island 60 metres off the Doha Corniche, and the building is half the reason to go. I. M. Pei came out of retirement in his nineties to design it, travelling the Muslim world for…

    Address
    Museum of Islamic Art, Al Corniche Street, MIA Park, Zone 4, Doha
    Nearest transit
    Souq Waqif station (Doha Metro Gold Line), then the free Metrolink M120 feeder bus to MIA Park, or a 15-min walk south along the Corniche
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    National Museum of Qatar - The Desert Rose Building

    Jean Nouvel's National Museum of Qatar opened in 2019 and looks like 316 interlocking discs dropped into the sand. The reference is the desert rose, the gypsum crystal that forms in Qatar's coastal sabkha flats, and the…

    Address
    National Museum of Qatar, Museum Park Street, off Al Corniche Street, Zone 4, Doha
    Nearest transit
    National Museum station (Doha Metro Gold Line), 2-min walk from the station exit to the ticket hall
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    The Doha Corniche - The Seven-Kilometre Waterfront Walk

    The Doha Corniche is the 7 km crescent of promenade that ties the whole city together, curving from the Museum of Islamic Art in the south to the Sheraton roundabout at the northern tip of West Bay. Walk it and you get…

    Address
    Al Corniche Street, Al Bidda Park main entrance, Zone 4, Doha
    Nearest transit
    Corniche station or Al Bidda station (Doha Metro Gold and Green lines), both under a 5-min walk to the promenade
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    Katara Cultural Village - Amphitheatre, Galleries and Beach

    Katara Cultural Village is a purpose-built arts district on the coast north of West Bay, laid out to resemble an old Gulf town with sand-coloured alleys, wind towers and two pigeon towers that genuinely house birds. The…

    Address
    Katara Cultural Village, Building 12, Katara Street, Zone 66, Doha
    Nearest transit
    Legtaifiya station (Doha Metro Red Line), then the free Katara Metrolink feeder bus, about 7 minutes door to door
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    The Pearl-Qatar - Marinas and Promenades on Reclaimed Land

    The Pearl-Qatar is four square kilometres of reclaimed land built over a former pearl-diving bed, and it was the first place in the country where foreign nationals could buy freehold property. Porto Arabia is the…

    Address
    Porto Arabia Drive, Tower 1, The Pearl-Qatar, Zone 66, Doha
    Nearest transit
    Legtaifiya station (Doha Metro Red Line), then the free Metrolink feeder bus across the causeway, about 10 minutes
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    Msheireb Museums - Four Restored Houses in the Old City

    Msheireb Museums are four of the oldest surviving houses in Doha, restored inside the Msheireb Downtown regeneration district and run as free museums. Bin Jelmood House is the one people remember. It deals directly with…

    Address
    Msheireb Museums, Mohammed Bin Jassim House, Al Kahraba Street, Msheireb Downtown, Zone 3, Doha
    Nearest transit
    Msheireb station (Doha Metro interchange for the Red, Green and Gold lines), 6-min walk north along Al Kahraba Street
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    Khor Al Adaid Desert Safari - The Inland Sea on the Saudi Border

    Khor Al Adaid is the inland sea, a tidal inlet where the Gulf pushes several kilometres into the desert and runs straight up against the dunes. It is a UNESCO-recognised nature reserve, reachable only by 4x4, and the…

    Address
    Sealine Beach Road (Route 39), Mesaieed, Al Wakrah Municipality, Qatar; most operators collect from Al Dafna, Zone 61, Doha
    Nearest transit
    No metro or bus access. Al Wakra station (Doha Metro Red Line) is the closest rail point and still 40 km short of the dunes; a 4x4 transfer from central Doha takes about 75 minutes, a taxi to the Sealine dune gate around 60 minutes
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    Education City and the Qatar National Library - Campus Architecture and an Open Collection

    Education City is a 12 square kilometre campus west of central Doha where eight international universities keep branch schools, and for a visitor it works as an open-air architecture park. Rem Koolhaas designed the…

    Address
    Qatar National Library, Education City, Al Luqta Street, Zone 55, Al Rayyan, Doha
    Nearest transit
    Qatar National Library station (Doha Metro Green Line), 3-min walk; the free Education City Tram links the campus buildings from the same stop
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    Al Zubarah Fort - The UNESCO Pearling Town in the North

    Al Zubarah is Qatar's only UNESCO World Heritage Site and the best-preserved example of an 18th-century Gulf pearling town anywhere in the region. The walled settlement covered around 60 hectares at its peak, traded…

    Address
    Al Zubarah Fort, Route 902 off the Al Shamal Road, Al Zubarah, Madinat ash Shamal Municipality, Qatar
    Nearest transit
    No metro or bus service. Lusail QNB station (Doha Metro Red Line) is the last rail stop northbound; from there a hire car or taxi covers the remaining 90 km in about an hour, roughly 105 minutes in total from central Doha

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