✈️ Qatar transit experience | Accidentally discovered the most luxurious airport in the world? !
Limited business budget, originally considered direct flight to Turkey, but direct flight 10-12 hours, the price is not cheap, although the whole journey takes 18 hours, but the ticket is almost half cheaper, and you can get off the plane and walk to stretch your waist, it doesn't look like a bad thing, the result... even mistakenly entered a luxurious Middle Eastern airport - Doha International Airport!
📍 Voyage arrangements
✈️ Hong Kong → Doha (approx. 9.5 hours)
⏳ Transfer time to Doha: 2.5 hours
✈️ Doha → Istanbul (about 4 hours)
♨️ Doha Airport | Tropical Rainforest x KAWS Sculpture x LED Sea Boat?
I thought I would just find a chair to sleep for a while, but the moment I got off the plane, I immediately felt like a countryman🤯! The airport is super new, super big, so big that I can't finish walking, and there is a driverless train🚆 to take me to the expanded part of "The Orchard". As a result I saw that there is even a rainforest in the airport? ! ?
🌿 Airport turns into rainforest? Small waterfall + green park
After getting off the plane, I walked a few steps and even entered a tropical rainforest! Full of plants, big trees, sunlight shining through, with tents, water pools, waterfalls, walking through is really chill, not like an airport at all, completely holiday feeling! 🌴🌊
🤔 Is this Jewel copied?
At first glance, it really looks like Jewel, but after checking the information, I found that it was a “rain vortex” designed by Moshe Safdie, while Grimshaw Architects was responsible for “The Orchard” at Doha airport. Although similar, the style is completely different!
🔹 The Jewel features super high waterfalls, with straight water flowing down, which is super shocking
🔹The Orchard feels more static, emphasizing nature + quiet space
🎭 KAWS giant sculpture
There are also giant wooden sculptures from KAWS, placed in the airport atrium. 😂 Great for checking in📸!
🚢LED offshore model ship
Walk to the other side and see a 3-meter-long model sailboat, set on the LED floor, the LED turns into a blue wave animation, looking down at the whole ship floating on the water, the visual effect is very shocking!
🔋 Free charging + premium lounge area
The most courteous thing is that each seat has USB charging 🔌, seeing many people while waiting for the machine while working, really not afraid of wasting time, work from airport 100% workable!
🛎️ Istanbul Airport | Bombarded by medical and beauty advertisements as soon as you get off the plane? !
After flying for 18 hours, we finally got off the plane! I thought I could finally start feeling the Turkish style, but once I got off the plane, the whole world was filled with medical and beauty advertisements? ! ?
💉 Crowded advertisements for hair transplants, skin lifts, and braces
Hair transplantation, straightening, skin lifting, slimming, orthodontics... the airport is full of these advertisements, it feels like the whole airport has become a medical beauty center, I thought I went to the wrong Korea 🤣! Then I learned that Turkey is the world's number one country in hair transplant technology, many European men will fly over to do hair transplant, no wonder the airport turned into a medical and beauty exhibition hall! 😂
🐱 Streets of Istanbul = Cat owner paradise
Riding into the city, I saw a lot of cats along the way! 😻 They walk around, restaurant doors, coffee shops, supermarkets, not afraid of people at all, walk over and touch it and will automatically come up! The locals in Istanbul are really super nice to cats, and some even feed street cats exclusively, this feeling of human and animal coexistence is quite special.
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