Doha: To make ongoing Sustainability Week more informative and interesting for the community, a local tour operator has chalked out a three-day “The Heritage” activity starting from Thursday with a sensational desert rose hunting trip.
The three-day activity to explore nature has been designed with the help of Qatar Green Building Council. On November 17 (Thursday), the enthusiasts will be hunting desert roses with “365 Adventures” in Qatar. Desert roses are very beautiful.
Desert rose is the colloquial name given to rosette formations of the minerals gypsum and barite with poikilotopic sand inclusions. The 'petals' are crystals flattened on the crystallographic axis, fanning open along characteristic gypsum cleavage planes. The under construction Qatar National Museum’s architecture has also been inspired by these desert roses.
“We have designed “The Heritage” activity on the motivation of Qatar Green Building Council to mark Sustainability Week. 365 Adventures has deigned three different outdoor experiences to discover and explore Qatar's hidden treasures and sights,” said Abdul Rehman Sajid, tour guide.
He said that the activity will provide opportunity to residents from a desert dune bashing and camping experience to an architectural and heritage exploration tour in the west to simply catching the sunset on a kayak in the mangroves forest. “We are also providing a guided tour to the Northern heritage sites. 365 Adventures will help people escape, explore, experience and give back in an adventurous way.”
He said desert rose hunting trip would be a family friendly day-long activity where the residents will also visit Al Dosari Zoo and /or Sheikh Faisal's Museum. “We then head to Umm Bab where the desert roses are found.
We will hunt the roses. After which, we will enjoy the sunset at Dukhan beach and visualise the night-lights at the beautiful Camel Racing Track in Shahaniya.”
He said on the second day of activity (November 18), dhow cruise and Zumba at Safliyah Island will be provided to tourists. “They will experience a sunset on a dhow cruise, followed by a swim to Al Safliyah Island and a Zumba activity for 40 minutes.”
On the third day, Sajid said, there would be an “Extreme Desert Show 3.0” including dune bashing for three hours at sealine, one hour extreme desert show, sunset at the inland sea (Khor Al Adaid) and swimming at the inland sea. “Our events aim to provide unique adventures to areas that have not been discovered our way yet".
