Katara Beach

This guide to Katara Beach in Doha opens with a whistle blowing at ten in the morning over a strict dress code, in sharp contrast to the liberal hotel beaches only minutes away. It traces the beach's roots in a cultural village opened in 2010, named for a shoreline the geographer Ptolemy marked on a map nearly two thousand years earlier. The guide also covers what the beach offers by day, including kayaking and paddleboarding, free to enter until eleven at night.