Film city, mystery village and more.

During our short spring break we discovered new fascinating places at the eastern part of  Qatar peninsula. If you like exotics along with extreme driving Zekreet area is the best place to go.
We were looking for a place  called a Film city that was built according to one version, for making a historical movie about Arabs. So, charmed by a prospect to see some ancient like buildings we loaded our GPS with coordinates of the place and  headed toward it.  After highway we drove around 40 minutes or so on something that hardly resembles a road. Definitely it was not a good condition for taking pictures since everyone in the car was shaking , jumping and bumping at each other.

This was a landscape that followed us all the way to our destination.

At one point we started question abilities of our GPS to find the place because we could not see anything but rocks and sand.

Suddenly, the landscape started to change and we saw an oasis with a fort like building.

It was the Film city.
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The main entrance to the city.

It looks like it is a typical Qatari style architecture that can be seen in some abandoned villages around Qatar.

Towers and a mosque.

A view from the central yard.

The sight of the Gulf from the top.

After we satisfied our curiosity we decided  to go the to so called mystery village that is located only  5-10 minutes away from the city.  On the way I had a chance to make some interesting shots.

Waters of Persian Gulf surrounded by rocks.

This rock looks like a mushroom.

On the top of another mushroom like rock there was  a weird building.

And here is the mystery village itself. A view from a distance.

A closer look.
It seems that these buildings are associated with the Film city somehow. Maybe they were designed for making a part of the movie.

Two minutes away from the village we found a beautiful beach. The water was very clean with lots of jelly fish.

Jelly fish in the water.

On the shore.

We found some plants growing right on the shore.

We also noticed that there were lots of black rock formation coming out of the water and stretching along the beach.

At the end of our trip I was able to capture the hiding sun from the window of our car.