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Bahrain and Qatar Holidays, Information

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GENERAL INFORMATION

BAHRAIN PASSPORTS AND VISAS
British passport holders can obtain a tourist visa, valid for three weeks, on arrival in the country at a cost of around £20. The visa is renewable once for a similar period. At least 6-months validity is required on your passport. Other nationalities should contact the Bahrain Embassy, 30 Belgrave Square, London SW1X 8QB - Tel: 020 7201 9170.

VACCINATIONS AND HEALTH
Precautions against polio and typhoid recommended. There is a risk of hepatitis A and B. Please consult your GP for up to date information.

CURRENCY
Bahrain dinar (BD) = 1,000 Fils. US dollars and major credit cards accepted. ATM facilities are widely available.

CLIMATE
December to April are the mildest months, sometimes cool with occasional light rain. June to October are hot and humid with temperatures topping 40º C.

TIPPING AND BARGAINING
A service charge is added in most establishments. Those wishing to tip should add approximately 10%. Bargaining in souqs and markets is acceptable but not in western-style shops.

QATAR PASSPORTS AND VISAS
British passport holders can obtain a tourist visa, valid for two weeks, on arrival in the country at a cost of around £10. The visa is renewable once for a further 14 days. At least 6-months validity is required on your passport. Other nationalities should contact the Qatar Embassy, 1 South Audley Street, London W1Y 1NB - Tel: 020 7493 2200.

VACCINATIONS AND HEALTH
Precautions against polio, typhoid and hepatitis A recommended. Please consult your GP for up to date information.

CURRENCY
Qatari riyal (QR) = 100 dirhams. Major credit cards accepted. ATM facilities are widely available.

CLIMATE
Temperatures from May to September average 35º C, but can reach 50º C. Humidity is high at 90% which can make for an uncomfortable time. October to April are milder with pleasant, cool evenings. sandstorms are common, especially in the Spring. Rainfall is slight with periods of wet weather occurring in December and January.

TIPPING AND BARGAINING
A service charge is added in most establishments. Those wishing to tip should add approximately 10%. Bargaining in souqs and markets is acceptable but not in western-style shops.

 

Both Bahrain and Qatar lie adjacent to the Saudi mainland to which Bahrain is tied in by a causeway and with which Qatar percentages a earth border. Both areas are independent Gulf States, comparatively fresh to touristry but evenly decided to create their print however. Bahrain is the smallest of the two areas and the lone island-state in the Arab world. Due to its strategical billet on the old trade routes Bahrain has construed several military controls and tribulations from oversea.

The Portuguese, Persians, Omanis have all played a portion in its history. The uncovering of oil in the part headed to the arrival of the alien exile residential area who were promptly created to experience at home here. Today Bahrain is one of the most munificently given areas in the area and is highly receiving to oversea visitants. The area, whilst little, has a long and proud inheritance, seeable in its many singular good deals.
Qatar lies to the immediate south-east of Bahrain. The larger area of the two out and away Qatar has taken Brobdingnagian gradations to boost visitants from oversea to call in its shores, both in the leisure and bodied spheres of the mart. Qatar is a frequent legion to planetary sports tourneys and international occupation group discussions. It has put heavily in foremost leisure installations and in its national air hose it possesses one of the most modernistic fleets taking flight today. Blessed with looming sand dunes, ancient stone carvings and historic edifices, Qatar has lots to reinforce those that pick out to visit.
Both Bahrain and Qatar have a number of positions of interestingness which visitants would be well proposed to seek out. In both cases local access code to the chief attractions is first class and we are sure enough capable to aid in creating all transcriptions as needed.

The Bahrain National Museum is the most popular attractiveness and holds in showings dating back over 4,000 classes. The Museum of Pearl Diving chronicles Bahrain's seafaring inheritance with a Brobdingnagian reach of displays. The Beit Al-Quran (House of the Quran) domiciliates a aggregation of Islamic holographs and legion written matters of the Holy Quran. The Al-Fatih Mosque is Bahrain's largest edifice and house of god, capable of holding over 7,000 hoi pollois. Other noted attractivenesses lying outside of the majuscule include Bahrain Fort, the situation of which dates back over 4,000 classes. Barbar is a building complex of temples dating back to the 2nd and 3rd millennium BC, which can be considered from a serial of causeways. The town of A 'Ali is house to a series of burial mounds and is likewise renowned for its pottery. A popular attraction is the Tree of Sprightliness which in some way pulls through in the other than defected terrain when aught else does.
In the Katari working capital of Doha the main attracter is Qatar National Museum pursued closely by the Heritage Centre and the Doha Fort. To the west of Doha, Ash Shahaniya is house to the Camel Race Track and the Al-Maha Sanctuary where the Arabian Oryx is multiplied. Khor Al-Adaid is an 'Inland Sea' far famed for its immense sand dunes, Union of Doha the rough rock outcrop known as Jebel Jassassiyeh can be found oneself. Stone carvings dating back one thousands of yrs can be found here.

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