4×4 desert tour in Qatar: reviews, prices

Al fly with Qatar Airways from Spain to one of the Asian or African destinations that this airline covers, you have the possibility during your stopover in the Qatari capital to visit it through one of the free tour to visit Doha which you can sign up for at the airport.

But I remind you that you will be in the middle of the Arabian Peninsula and the desert has the greatest role; In fact, it may interest you not to miss the opportunity to meet him.

In that case, it will be worth extending your stay one more day in Doha to enjoy a 4×4 excursion through the desert that takes place around the capital.

En Doha you have several options desert excursions with a longer or shorter duration.

Specifically, during my recent trip to Doha I participated in the most complete version, the excursion known as Inland Sea Safari (Inland Tour Safari).

Lasting eight hours, this excursion takes you to the desert that surrounds the capital and during it you will carry out various activities.

These excursions are offered by tourist companies such as Gulf Adventures, with which you can do it with a guide in Spanish.

What is the main characteristic of this desert excursion?

Qatar desert excursion

This tour combines the “exciting" activity of "to surf” with the all-terrain vehicle through the large dunes that you will find in this desert, with the serenity of enjoying the wide landscapes of the inland sea that opens up in it.

To do the excursion they came to pick us up at the hotel, and in modern and very comfortable all-terrain vehicles we began the route to the south of Doha, which takes you to the very close desert, where you arrive in less than an hour.

As soon as they leave the paved road, a first stop is made in which the drivers deflate the tires of their vehicles to a large extent, an essential task to be able to travel on the large sandy surface of the desert.

From there is when you really start desert experience.

The time has come for “surf the dunes“, an activity that will take you to drive along the upper edge of the large dunes, until the vehicle drops off the side of the dunes, being largely covered by the fine sand.

From experience I will tell you that, although it may seem like a somewhat adrenaline and with a point of risk, the enormous skill of the drivers means that you really have the feeling of being surfing.

To verify this, I advise you to watch the video that accompanies this text, which has been filmed from inside the 4×4 vehicle during the excursion.

In this way, on this route between the great dunes of the doha desert you will reach the edge of the inland sea , a landscape enclave formed by shifting dunes that surround a bay of the gulf sea, which opens where the Qatar peninsula.

When you get to enjoy this great desert landscape, on the other side of the inland sea you will be seeing Saudi Arabia.

The excursion through the desert will finally take you to a large Bedouin camp located on the shores of a beach, where in large and comfortable tents you can enjoy a delicious meal barbecue.

You can also bathe in the sea, or rest on one of the long Arab sofas in the tents.

Finally, you will have the opportunity to see the sun set in the desert, which completes an excursion that, after visiting the very modern city of doha, it will remind you where in the world you really are.