West coast tour Zekreet and Dukhan
West coast tour Zekreet and Dukhan
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OVERVIEW
Zekreet is a village 80 km north-west west of Doha boasts an astonishing landscape with prehistoric sites and remnants of old settlements, originally a sparsely populated area, built up in the 1940s after oil operations commenced in Qatar. There are a number of visitor attractions and old ruins at the site, one of the most notable are Zekreet Fort, which is housed to the immediate north of the village. Located close to Dukhan, the Zekreet area boasts an astonishing landscape with prehistoric sites and remnants of old settlements.
Dukhan is a city in the western municipality of Al-Shahaniya in the State of Qatar, close to Zekreet. Dukhan is administrated by Qatar's state oil agency Qatar Petroleum and is the site of the first oil discovery in Qatar.