Days 13-14 (July 23-24, 2022): Dunes, Pearl and the Journey Home!
Vacations are funny things: you plan months —or as in the case of this trip — years in advance, you anticipate, and then they unfold faster than you can imagine. Before you know it, they are over, and you are returning to the reality of everyday life, feeding off the memories and photos of your experiences. With one last day in Qatar, we decided that a “desert safari” would have to comprise part of it. It is something we wished we had done on earlier trips to the United Arab Emirates but didn’t. So as we sat in the coffee shop at the National Museum of Qatar yesterday, we called a tour company and set up such a tour. Our guide arrived promptly at 9AM in a large Land Cruiser and drove us 45 minutes south of Doha to the dunes of the Arabian Desert at Ash Shaq’ra. Before starting our safari, however, we stopped to ride a camel and hold a falcon. Both activities were so touristy they were almost kitschy. But still, we had fun doing bot...
