Trip to the Races

Some of the photos below have come from our trip out to the camel racing. We hop on the tour bus (have it entirely to ourselves) and the guide tells us that today is the last day of the camel racing season. That the races run from 6-30 -9-30 in the morning. It is 9-00am and it takes 45 minutes to get out to the track so we were pretty disappointed. But we were going to get to have a look around and visit a camel and Arabic horse stable. We rock on out there and there are some wonderful photo opportunities, which I will have to go back and capture. We have this community which has developed over 1000s of years and we see lots of examples of globalization / westernization creeping in. As we scream around a roundabout there is this old concrete wall with a Macdonald’s golden arches plastered on it framed with a mosque tower. A couple of the photos below are of camel riders. I should have captured the context but had the camera settings on email size rather than 7meg so wasn’t able to get the pictures I wanted. I was trying to capture them taking part in this age old traditional of camel racing with one talking on his cell and the other chilling out to his ipod. One of my friends has this great photo of a man standing at the top of an ancient fort with his yashmagh blowing in the wind under a Qatari flag. I think he is talking on his cell. You’re right Emma, I/we must get a better camera.