Doha City Tour

Yesterday evening, I headed to the airport of Zanzibar. At midnight, the very small machine took off and flew just the few kilometres over the sea to Dar Es Salam. Yeah, it was maybe not my most brilliant idea ever, taking the cheapest flight, as my connection was just departing in the late morning after... So, let's say I had a very relaxing night at the DAR airport, playing solitaire up and down until my mobile had no power anymore 🤣. Finally a movement, the check-in desk opened, so that I could drop my luggage at least. Having past through immigration, I spent my last 10k Tanzanian Shillings (3.80 USD) for a coffee. And thaaaan, finally it was time to board the plane, next destination Doha / Katar.

As one long layover is not enough for Dana, someone had booked the flight so that also in Doha I had about 9 hours (Yesss, really shame on me) 😬 that time however, I could spend nicely. Qatar Airways offers for about 25 USD City Tours for all passengers in transit for more than 6 hours. The tour itself took 3 hours, plus another 1.5hrs for passing the security screening and immigration. The tour itself was very basic and let's call it a prestige project of Qatar. We drove on the Corniche, the road at the seaside, passed through the financial and business district and all the prestige roads of the City. We had a short stop at the Corniche for pictures from the skyline and another at the Cultural Centre / Amphitheatre of Qatar. Last but not least, we got about half an hour to stroll around the local bazaar, the so-called Souq Waqif. Especially that place reminded me a lot about the calls we had 5 years ago with MSC Bellissima, my first ship ever. 💙 Anyway, I really enjoyed the stroll through the market. I love the smell of oriental bazaars. Same but different, always kind of the same but still at every corner a new joy for the nose. Exactly 3 hours later we arrived again at the airport. I'm ready to board this last plane for the flight back to my homebase. One thing I can promise however, Africa got my heart! As our Tour Leader Dan said, when that part of the trip found it's end: It's not a goodbye, it's a "see you later" 🌍🐘🦏🐃🦁🐆🧡Læs mere