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Khor Al-Adaid natural reserve

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The Khor Al-Adaid natural reserve comprises a terrestrial and marine ecosystem characterized by mobile dunes and sabkha's (saline mudflats). Its fauna includes dugong, turtles, birds and gazelles. The Inland Sea (a tidal bay) is connected to the Arabian Sea via a narrow channel.
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Khor Al-Adaid natural reserve (ID: 5317)
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First published: 19/02/12.

Alessandro Votta

Khor Al-Adaid Natural Reserve

Khor Al-Adaid natural reserve (On tentative list)

I've recently spent one hour at the Khor Al-Adaid, during an half-day trip from Doha. There is no road to reach this place, so the only way is to hire a local driver from Doha with a 4x4 to take you to this desert place. The travel itself is an unforgettable experience, since you have to ride all the sand dunes with the car.. but it's more a touristic experience, rather than linked to the TL site itself. Once you reach the "inland sea" (it takes like 1 hour and half from Doha), you feel lost in this desertic place, with the unreal water laying between the dunes. We could not see any wildlife; some bedouin tents and the tracks of the 4x4 were the only traces of human life here. For sure the landscape is spectacular, and maybe the only way to protect this site is to avoid any road construction. I don't think there is something else that could be done to protect this place. The site is very wide, we could just see a part of it (we haven't reached the 10 km channel linking the inland sea with the open sea, as it's mentioned on the Unesco website), but still we could see many lagoons linked to each other, surrounded by wonderful sand dunes. The return way was much easier, we just followed the sea shore, on the flat way it took much less to reach the road. If this site would ever be added to …

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