The flight to Doha took a bit more than 5 hours, where we spent a few hours. Doha’s Airport is brand new, so worth a walk around. Can’t miss Urs Fisher’s giant Lamp/Bear installation.

Tehran is only two hours away from Doha. As for headscarfs, those people not wearing them permanently, only put them on before landing. We arrived around 3 AM. Immigration was no hassle at all and quite quick.

The airport had a bit of friendly provincial feeling despite its large size.  Tehran city is around 50 kms away, but there is a taxi queue with regulated fixed prices. At the time of our visit, it cost 600,000 Riyals, i.e. approx USD 20.