There is nothing small about the tiny country of Qatar. In just two decades, this peninsular country that pokes out like a stubby finger into the Arabian Gulf has systematically turned its desert landscape into smart cities, neighbourhoods that are big on style, reclaimed land for high-life-living and created state-of-the-art facilities to host the Grand Prix and the Fifa World Cup.
A walk along its horseshoe-shaped Corniche walkway stretches 7km along the waterfront of the Doha bay to the city. From here, you can see the futuristic skyline of the West Bay areas where the financial centres, administrative centres, ministries, and embassies lord it over the sea in shapely high rise towers, some of which have an image of the emir of Qatar, Sheikh Tamin bin Hamad Al Thani.