Al Samriya
Al Samriya is a village in Qatar located in the municipality of Al-Shahaniya.
Al Samriya is a village in Qatar located in the municipality of Al-Shahaniya. It is considered to be a locality of the nearby city of Al-Shahaniya, which is the municipal seat. The Sheikh Faisal Bin Qassim Al Thani Museum is a notable attraction in the village. West of the village is the Al-Shahaniya Camel Racetrack.
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Worth seeing in and around Al Samriya
One place within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.
- 01Sheikh Faisal Bin Qassim Al Thani Museum
Sheikh Faisal Bin Qassim Al Thani Museum is a privately owned museum located in the municipality of Al-Shahaniya in Qatar. Encompassing an area of 530,000 m2, the three-building museum was opened in 1998 by Sheikh Faisal bin Qassim Al Thani.
2.8 km · museum located in Qatar · Wikipedia
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Getting to Al Samriya
- Airports
- Doha (DIA), 31 km · Hamad (DOH), 34 km · Bahrain (BAH), 119 km
- Manama → Al Samriya138 km · quickest by road, 5h 33m · $30–41
- Hofuf → Al Samriya194 km · quickest by road, 3h 47m · SAR70–95
- Ad Dammam → Al Samriya188 km · quickest by road, 4h 59m · SAR90–120
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Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.
No local-transport research exists yet for Al Samriya
Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Al Samriya. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Get aroundTo follow the camel races or to explore the area, it's best to have your own vehicle.
From Wikivoyage: Al Shahaniyah, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-09.
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Next door to Al Samriya
Al Samriya is 27 km from Doha, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.