A brief visit to Doha, rich capital city of Qatar state

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October 9, 2009, Friday
Dubai - Doha - Milan
Dall'Ibis Dubai airport at 4 am are only 5 minutes away, could be more than an hour at peak times. Hour flight and landed in Doha, we have a break of about 6 hours and then they take the opportunity to visit the city. Customs formalities, you'll pay an entry QR 100 per person (EUR 18), we retrieve a map of the city and find a nice taxi driver for 60 QR (12 eur) takes us a panoramic tour of the city. Belongs to the blue taxi company operating the airport and then discover that owned the chairman of Qatar. We start from the Corniche, the Islamic museum (unfortunately closed since Friday), the diplomatic district, with its futuristic skyscrapers. The crisis is also felt here and all the yards have been suspended, most of the workers aisatici, unemployed or returning. Then we reach the famous skyscraper zigzag seems built to defy the laws of gravity. We pass next to the residence of the President, the tennis courts where you land in a few weeks the tournament in Doha. A pleasant surprise is the old souk, completely renovated, but retains its traditional charm, with its themed neighborhoods. The main street lined with bars, small restaurants and craft shops and then the streets of spices, fabrics of the pan, ending in the area for small animals, mainly birds, parakeets, but also cats and rabbits. You can find here the most amazing birds, feathers curled, with majestic hills, real rarity. Return airport and boarding the flight to Milan.
Some veiled women on the plane as soon as shed headscarves and black robes and reappear in jeans and t-shirt completely Westernized, this is the contrast of these countries.