Qatar National Day - 18 December 2011

Qatar has a national holiday on the 18th December, which was the date when unification was achieved in Qatar.

To say that the Qatari's are patriotic would be an understatement. They take National Day extremely seriously and go all our to celebrate. Absolutely everyone goes out in their cars and they decorate theirs cars to the nines!

People sit on the roof of the car, and lean out of the windows. We even saw two people, each stood on a car, holding a Qatar flag between them, with both cars driving down the road. I was so terrified that they were going to fall off that I couldn't get a picture.

Here are some pictures of the day:

Yes, that is a £60,000 Land Rover that someone has spray painted "Qatar" down the side of it. And yes, they are stickers that cover the ENTIRE windscreen and all the windows. (In actual fact, you can see through them, but I wasn't going to tell you that at the start!)

It was a crazy and amazing day! We've never seen anything like it, you have to see it to believe it. The Qatari's certainly know how to celebrate!