Abandoned Qatar, May 13, 2006
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Well, despite temps into the 103 range, I decided to take a look at an abandoned housing / business complex in the Rayyan district, west of Doha.
Only to find it may not have been as abandoned as I thought. Up until recently, companies in Qatar did not have to provide shelter or housing for their expat labourers from India, Pakistan, etc. Now, you see large "tent city" labour camps which are provided for the labourers. I suspect this may have been, more a time, one of the shantytowns that the expat labourers used.
Front gate. I have seen this for a few days, and thought it was a typical abandoned house or business complex in Qatar
This is the western room at the front gate
And this is where I got my first surprise. Because all along the inside of the complex wall and around the main building, there were clusters of little one room shacks built out of whatever scrap materials they could find. At this point, I wasn't sure if it was all that abandoned....
Room in the main building, just inside the front entrance
Calendar on the wall. Someone was here as of 2004 at any rate
Inner room. I saw these pallet frames and thin foam matresses everywhere inside and in the small shacks
Stairwell up to the roof. Very strong fecal smell, I suspect one of the small shacks built inside was a makeshift privy
Picture taken outside the stairwell window. You can see the shacks in the courtyard
Small window in the main building that has been turned into a breezeway into the shack built outside it.
Front/side patio of the main building
West side of the main building. You can see another shack built on the patio
Here you see more of the little shacks built around and on a patio
More shacks, these by the main gate
And this was a sign at least some of these shacks are still occupied - because I doubt these tomatoes would still be this fresh after more than a couple days in the desert sun.
abandonedplaces)Well, despite temps into the 103 range, I decided to take a look at an abandoned housing / business complex in the Rayyan district, west of Doha.
Only to find it may not have been as abandoned as I thought. Up until recently, companies in Qatar did not have to provide shelter or housing for their expat labourers from India, Pakistan, etc. Now, you see large "tent city" labour camps which are provided for the labourers. I suspect this may have been, more a time, one of the shantytowns that the expat labourers used.
Front gate. I have seen this for a few days, and thought it was a typical abandoned house or business complex in Qatar
This is the western room at the front gate
And this is where I got my first surprise. Because all along the inside of the complex wall and around the main building, there were clusters of little one room shacks built out of whatever scrap materials they could find. At this point, I wasn't sure if it was all that abandoned....
Room in the main building, just inside the front entrance
Calendar on the wall. Someone was here as of 2004 at any rate
Inner room. I saw these pallet frames and thin foam matresses everywhere inside and in the small shacks
Stairwell up to the roof. Very strong fecal smell, I suspect one of the small shacks built inside was a makeshift privy
Picture taken outside the stairwell window. You can see the shacks in the courtyard
Small window in the main building that has been turned into a breezeway into the shack built outside it.
Front/side patio of the main building
West side of the main building. You can see another shack built on the patio
Here you see more of the little shacks built around and on a patio
More shacks, these by the main gate
And this was a sign at least some of these shacks are still occupied - because I doubt these tomatoes would still be this fresh after more than a couple days in the desert sun.
