Qatar Shopping
By Gervais Whale

Stroll along a canal while browsing stores, or delight in a dish over streaming water. Appreciate the gondolas, look up at the blue skies and fluffy white clouds above you or admire the moon and star constellations above you. You can be forgiven for believing you were in Venice - yet really you remain in Qatar, a small desert peninsula country on the outskirts of Saudi Arabia. The shopping mall is Villagio: Qatar's newest and most stupendous shopping center - and that's even prior to it's finished.

For such a little city (in such a little country!) there is a massive variety of purchasing. Doha might not yet match Dubai in shopping terms (although Qatari girls - expert consumers if there ever were any - preserve Doha's shop prices are significantly less costly), however as ever it is figured out to catch up with its neighbor.

Qatar shoppers certainly have the money to spend - Qatar currently has an ordinary annual earnings of over $60,000 a year. That's substantially more than the average earnings of an American.

Villagio alone has over 130,000 square metres of retail area - which will consist of a movie theater (with 3-d screens), ice-skating rink and even an roller-coaster.

Yet Doha offers much more than luxury shopping malls. [http://www.qatarvisitor.com/index.php?cID=416&pID=1068] Souq Waqif is a massive sprawling typical Arab Souq - traditional in vogue at the very least, the real structures have all been reconstructed. Here you could find colourful ranges of flavors, Indian clothes, falcons and a lot more.

If you favor something much more standard you can head out to the wholesale markets on the outskirts of towns. In addition to the fantastic vegetable market, an online animal market (make sure to have a look at the camels) and a fish market you can also locate the Omani market.

Here you can get typical pottery, massive dried out fish and even - in wet winter seasons - desert truffles.

The only thing to bear in mind when scheduling a browse through to Qatar is the weather condition. Don't enter the summer season. Otherwise the within those lavish (and air-conditioned) mall is the only thing you'll be visiting.

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