Hello everyone, I hope you are doing well. The past couple of weeks have been kind of hectic. Ramadan was finished and Eid began. Because of Ramadan finishing up we are now allowed to go visit places during the day. On 5 November we decided to visit some ancient Qatari ruins. It was pretty fun. Not too many people were out at the ruins and it was pretty cool to see their relation to the country. While we were traveling up we saw a camel just out grazing. Then a little ways down the road we visited the camel racing track. This track was huge. I'm so used to seeing horse racetracks and they had nothing on this one. It took us awhile after viewing all of this to get up to the fort but when we did it was worth it. I will try to post the pics of the fort on here so you can check it out. It was rather small and I found it amazing that 100 people, livestock, and weapons for all could be placed in this structure. My only gripe though was that I kept getting attacked by damn flies every so often and my digital video camera was acting up.
Shortly afterwards we then headed a a old town at Qatari Historical Marker #25. It was pretty cool to see how they use to build their houses. It seems that what they would do is get rocks and stack them together to form a wall. Then after this was done they would take cement and pour it over the rocks forming the wall. I don't know what the roofs were made of, since many of the places were in such disrepair that there really was no place for the roof to go but into the ground, but if they were like the ones at the fortress. Than they were made of wood and thatch with a cement cover. Well that is all for now enjoy the pics.
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