- What to bring from the capital of Qatar?
- Gourmet Paradise
- Traditional gifts
The countries of the Middle East are gradually beginning to understand that the development of the tourism business can bring considerable revenues to the treasury. Resorts of the Persian Gulf, rapidly developing metropolitan cities with breathtaking architecture, ancient settlements, open-air museums - foreign guests have many reasons to visit these powers. Naturally, the question often arises of what to bring from Qatar, Oman or the UAE.
On the one hand, these countries located in the same region are ready to offer similar products. On the other hand, a guest from abroad will be able to find gifts for relatives and friends with a national character reflecting the way of life, traditions and crafts of a particular country. This article will focus on Qatari goods, ancient bazaars and modern shopping and entertainment centers.
What to bring from the capital of Qatar?
Magnificent Doha has been able to significantly change its architectural appearance over the past few years, beautiful buildings and structures, parks and boulevards have appeared here - everything so that guests feel comfortable and convenient. In addition, several large shopping establishments have appeared, where you can spend the whole day, not only shopping, but also having fun.
The main city in the capital is the "City Center Doha"; it amazes with its scale and thoughtfulness of the infrastructure. It offers guests, locals and foreign travelers, spas and beauty centers, a bowling alley, a water park and an ice rink. But the main thing is a large number of boutiques and shops, and, as experienced tourists note, prices in local outlets are much lower than those of their neighbors, especially for the following groups of goods: clothes of famous European brands; dishes and other household goods; paintings, interior items.
Another shopping center of the Qatari capital - Villagio, the architects came up with an unusual design - absolutely transparent ceilings, which, firstly, gives a lot of light, and secondly, allows visitors to admire heavenly paintings from time to time. This shopping center also has a large number of shops and souvenir shops. The desire to plunge into the authentic atmosphere of a real oriental bazaar takes tourists away from fashionable shopping centers to other parts of the capital of Qatar. What is "Souk Gould", the name of which translates as "Gold Bazaar", here, indeed, a huge selection of gold jewelry, besides them, silver and high-quality jewelry are sold.
Gourmet Paradise
A walk through the bazaars of the capital of Qatar gives you the opportunity to buy not only precious goods for yourself and your family. This is also a kind of opportunity to get acquainted with the economy of the country, to see what products the gastronomic basket of the average citizen of the country consists of. And, naturally, a great opportunity for a guest to stock up on various local delicacies. The hostesses will not miss the rows where they sell aromatic herbs, spices, seasonings, men will pay attention to the fish rows, especially those points where they sell dried fish (unfortunately, as a gift, she will not be able to get to the guest's homeland). After the end of the rainy season, a real national delicacy appears on the Qatari markets - desert truffles.
What cannot be brought from Qatar is alcohol, in this Muslim country the production of strong (and weak too) alcoholic beverages is prohibited. They are sold in specially designated places and in some hotels; buyers are mainly foreign tourists who miss their native drinks.
But in this country, like in other Middle Eastern countries, you can buy wonderful coffee for brewing in a Turk, strong, aromatic, and in addition to it, a special coffee pot made in a traditional style.
Traditional gifts
The tourism sector in Qatar is developing every year, the authorities understand the need to create an attractive image of the country in the eyes of foreign travelers. Therefore, ancient crafts began to revive very actively, respectively, things made by local craftsmen using ancient technologies find their buyer.
In the list of traditional souvenirs from Qatar, you can see the most beautiful carpets and tapestries of different sizes, shapes and colors, decorated with geometric and floral ornaments, oriental patterns, symbols of the Muslim religion. The use of natural materials makes such products durable, beautiful, not losing color for decades.
The second most popular group of goods is chased items, edged weapons, for example, daggers. Naturally, sellers offer souvenir views stylized to resemble antique samples. In the third place of honor - souvenirs associated with the Muslim religion - rosary from various natural materials, scrolls decorated with Arabic script.
