Market
Souq Waqif
Doha
Rebuilt heritage market of mud-rendered lanes, spice stalls and a falcon trading corner with its own bird hospital.
This guide to Souq Waqif in Doha opens with the fire that tore through the market's canvas roofs and wooden stalls in 2003, ending nearly two hundred fifty years of Bedouin trading along these muddy banks. It traces the ruling family's decision to rebuild by hand from 2006, restoring only what predated 1950. You'll also visit the corner where falcons are bought, sold and treated in an air-conditioned hospital of their own.
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