Kayaking in the Mangrove - Summer Festival in Qatar 2014

Kayaking at Al Khor Thakhirah or Dakhira Mangrove Nature Reserve Beach is one of the activities going on during this Summer Festival Season 2014 in Qatar. Tickets for different out door activities can be purchased at the Summer Festival tent at the Al Khor Mall, Parking. 

For Location of Al Khor Mall please go to www.rush360.qa pin your current location and set the Radius to more than 100KM (all this could be done by clicking "Advanced Search" next to the Search Tab), and do an exact serach for  "Al Khor Mall".

As for Kayaking you can actually make payments at the Thakhira Beach to the organizers of Kayaking Tours. Location of the Thakhirah Mangrove Nature Reserve can be found at www.rush360.qa, by pinning your current location and making the radius above 100 KM and doing an exact search for "Thakhira Beach".

When you get to the Thakhira Beach the beautiful clean beach with green Mangroves welcomes you!

All credit to Baladiya Ministry of Municipal and Urban Planning, for maintaining this beach  for the visitors  and making it a clean place and for some of the volunteers for taking their time to clean the mangroves in the recent past inspite of visiotors not being so considerate with regard to not littering this beautiful reserve. 

The Kayaking guys are decent helpful guys over there. Before you go on a Kayaking tour towards the Mangroves they give you a small training session as to how to paddle forward, backwards and also what to do and how to get on to the kayak in case the kayak topples. 

Explaining to the Adventurers!

Listening attentively before getting on!

Adventure begins and time to experience the thrill!

 Heading towards the beautiful Mangroves!

The tour lasts about 1.5 hours to 2 hours and they return by sunset! According to the Summer Festival information tent this activity goes on everyday from 1pm to 8pm till the 27th of September. 

The charges vary  from QR50 to QR250 according to age,  for kids and Adults! Kids under 12 are allowed too. They can accompany without paddling and even older ones who were not paddling were accompanied by others who were paddling!

You do not have to be an expert in Kayaking from what we saw, its a simple technique and most of them who were kayaking were doing it for the first time! But it does need some strength and you need to take some rest in between! We asked few of them after the tour when we saw them panting and at the same time looked satisfied with the experience, if they would come back again for this adventure! Guess what they said?! "YES", "SURE"!

So another activity to try out and enjoy away from Doha!


PS: Kayaking is offered by the local Eco Adventure Company Entalek follow the 5 simple steps and search for "Entalek" at www.rush360.qa for all details