Today we decided to take a trip out to the west coast of Qatar, to a town called Dukhan. This town mainly exists because of Qatar Petroleum. We had to enter through this security check point. It was a beautiful town (for the first few meters or so) and then it was all construction of new housing, old housing falling down, roads being paved, etc. Roundabout after roundabout we could not find the beach.
It seemed impossible. Some cruel ploy by Qatar Petroleum to keep us in their town. Finally we came upon this road that seemed to lead to somewhere.
It actually lead past a golf course. It seems weird to put a golf course in the desert. Even though the town was well landscaped, they didn't decide to put grass on the course. Eventually this road we were on lead to another security check point. We didn't know if we were allowed to pass through or not but the gate opened and we kept driving.
We were surrounded by oil pipelines, fueling and un-gassing stations, and signs at the start of side roads that said we were not allowed to drive there. We had no idea where we were and especially no idea why we were allowed past the security check point. We tried to drive to the water but once again there seemed to be barriers. We had managed to get past the wall of Dukhan but not past Qatar Petroleum.
We finally decided that it was too much trouble to try to find the beach and so we departed from Dukhan and headed north. We came to the first roundabout coming out of Dukhan and there was the sign we had wanted to see for the past hour: Dukhan Beach.
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