Qatar Historical + Nature pictures

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Al Wakrah\'s nicely redeveloped beach offers a vast expanse of white sand dotted with palm trees. It’s a great place to relax on weekends.

Enjoy a visit to the national mosque of Qatar, an impressive fort-like structure that welcomes visitors outside of prayer hours. 

Enjoy a visit to the national mosque of Qatar, an impressive fort-like structure that welcomes visitors outside of prayer hours. 

A 20th-century fort rises above the excavation site for an 18th-century pearl-diving and trading town buried by the sands of the desert.

A 20th-century fort rises above the excavation site for an 18th-century pearl-diving and trading town buried by the sands of the desert.

Enjoy a visit to the national mosque of Qatar, an impressive fort-like structure that welcomes visitors outside of prayer hours. 

Try dune bashing, ride a camel, see unique wild animals and unusual geology and experience exhilaration in the desert of Qatar.

Come to this heritage site to view towers built in the early 1900s to protect an oasis and defend against Ottoman attack.

Glittering and shiny, this Doha neighborhood has beautiful ocean views and some of the city’s best shops, parks, hotels, restaurants and cultural attractions. 

Al Wakrah\'s nicely redeveloped beach offers a vast expanse of white sand dotted with palm trees. It’s a great place to relax on weekends.

Try dune bashing, ride a camel, see unique wild animals and unusual geology and experience exhilaration in the desert of Qatar.

A 20th-century fort rises above the excavation site for an 18th-century pearl-diving and trading town buried by the sands of the desert.

Look for the tall spiral tower of this edutainment center, which offers an inviting place for visitors to learn about Arabic culture and Islamic religion.

One man’s personal collection of artifacts offers fascinating insights into Arab and Qatari culture.

Try dune bashing, ride a camel, see unique wild animals and unusual geology and experience exhilaration in the desert of Qatar.

Enjoy a visit to the national mosque of Qatar, an impressive fort-like structure that welcomes visitors outside of prayer hours. 

Travel west from Doha to see the remains of a fortress built two centuries ago for protection along the western Pirate Coast of Qatar.

Travel west from Doha to see the remains of a fortress built two centuries ago for protection along the western Pirate Coast of Qatar.

Try dune bashing, ride a camel, see unique wild animals and unusual geology and experience exhilaration in the desert of Qatar.

Travel west from Doha to see the remains of a fortress built two centuries ago for protection along the western Pirate Coast of Qatar.

Travel west from Doha to see the remains of a fortress built two centuries ago for protection along the western Pirate Coast of Qatar.

Art from across 14 centuries is displayed inside a striking limestone building designed by I.M. Pei, with architecture influenced by traditional Islamic style.

For views and spectacular sunsets, visit this otherworldly landscape and deserted, rocky beach on Qatar’s west coast.