Today a short stopover in Qatar, the penultimate country of our world tour,was on the agenda. From our hotel in Mumbai, a shuttle took us to Mumbai International Airport around 2 a.m. Just after 4 a.m., our three-hour Qatar Airways flight departed for Doha.
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The state of Qatar is an emirate on the east coast of the Arabian Peninsula on the Persian Gulf and has a population of around 2.7 million. Qatar borders Saudi Arabia in the south and the Kingdom of Bahrain in the northwest. The capital is Doha. From south to north the country stretches about 180 kilometres, from west to east 80 kilometres.