Showing posts with label desert. Show all posts
Showing posts with label desert. Show all posts
Saturday, July 20, 2013
Musfur Sinkhole
Musfer Sinkhole is the official name of a karst cave in Umm Al Shabrum, central Qatar. This sinkhole is one of the karst features. Other karst features include depressions, caves, and solution hollows. Karst is a distinctive environment characterized by landforms that are the product of dissolution of surface and subsurface rock by natural water to a greater extent than in other landscapes. It occurs both as surface and underground features. Several substantial caves are known in Qatar, but many have probably been filled with blown sand, or have collapsed to produce some of the thousands of depressions or dolines.
Source: http://wahyuinqatar.com/2009/06/16/musfer-sinkhole-karst-cave/
It wasn't too difficult to find the cave. The opening isn't that big but it's surrounded by a fence which made it clear.
Inside was mostly limestone as that's what Qatar is predominantly made up of. We did find a bit of gypsum.
It goes quite deep!
Nearby we passed this old police station for Um Al-Shobrum.
Map of Musfur Sinkhole
View Musfur Sinkhole in a larger map
Thursday, July 4, 2013
Zekreet Fort
Looks like only the ruins are left of Zekreet Fort...
On the way back to the main road we saw camels!
This was the little road leading to the fort from the highway.
View Zekreet Fort in a larger map
Sunday, June 30, 2013
Zubara Fort
Good to see Zubara Fort no longer under renovation! Looks like there are some plans for the old Zubara Town nearby...
We visited just after it was announced that this traditional pearl fishing town became the first Qatari site to enter the UNESCO World Heritage List. Exciting!
http://www.justhere.qa/2013/06/al-zubarah-is-now-a-unesco-world-heritage-site/
Friday, March 16, 2012
Mohamad Al-Dosari Zoo and Game Reserve
After visiting the camels and trying again to visit the oryx farm, we learned about the nearby Mohamad Al-Dosari Zoo and Game Reserve which they promised us had some oryx!
They were right!
There were so many animals as well including zebra, camels, ostriches, foxes, dogs, goats, and even elands! (An eland is apparently a type of antelope from Africa.)
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| eland |
The farm is located just north of the camel races. Map below:
View Mohammed Ad-Dosari Farm in a larger map
Camel Crossing
Just a normal day in the desert with camels crossing the street....!
We road some camels here and mine decided to start running! That was scary and I screamed which delighted the camel guys even more!
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| the robot jockeys! |
Friday, February 24, 2012
Picnic on the Beach
We drove along the coast down towards the Inland Sea. The car was sort of slanted so I was so freaked out that we would go in the water accidentally!
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| tire tracks in the sand |
It was a gorgeous day but still a bit chilly! Waaay too cold for swimming.
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| the grill |
Then we got stuck in the sand! Oops!
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