The Sports City Doha

We decided to get into the spirit of everything at the moment and head up to Sports City to soak in some of the Games atmosphere and more than anything, just to have a look around… After walking around the fence to get to the entrance which included us going through metal detectors and everything else passing through xray machines we entered what is a a huge complex! With the Khalifa Stadium, Aspire Complex and basketball stadium spread out throughout the place… as well as the tower, womans club and a very funky looking mosque, it took a fair bit of walking to get around. Sore feet, but all well worth the look and all very impressive!

KandA outside Khalifa Stadium

Aspire - The undercover stadium not really looking as impressive as it really is!

The basketball stadium with some locals wandering one way as we wander the other

MandA tower gazing!

Apart from the sporting venues there was another group of exhibitions set up by the museums authority at the Woman’s Club. In various rooms within the building there was “Dawn of Photography” (which had some very funky and old cameras, photography, and a huge stereoscopic viewer that you sit up and look at some rather old Middle Eastern images). Also there was a display from the Qatar Weaponry Museum, “Weapons to Sports” which traced the history of sports such as fencing and archery etc (also another beautiful “bargain” book). There was also the Philatelic & Numismatic Exhibition (stamps and coins galore), Asian Visual Art Exhibition, Asia in Photography Exhibition and the Architecture Through Photography Exhibition. Finally, if all that hadn’t kept you occupied for a while, outside the building was a display of sand sculptures.

Sand looking very well sculptured