A Tale of Two Towers
This is a three-stage multicache comprising stealth (particularly at Stage 1 near the CCTV), some simple number crunching and a tour of three connected sites across Doha taking you no more than an hour even given time for traffic and a little searching and scribbling of notes. The final Cache is approximately 20km from the city centre at a village in the desert suburbs. All caches are magnetic nanos in park and grab locations and all roads along the way are paved and fully accessible.
Stage 1 Begins nearby to Barzan Tower in the West Bay Central Business District close to the [relatively] small but architecturally interesting Barzan Tower. You will need to know a little about this tower to find stage 2, all of the details required apart from the clue located in the physical cache are available online. To find the stage two cache you will need to navigate to:
N25° A.BC E51° D.957
A = The number of stories that comprise Barzan Tower minus half of X.
B= The Year (final 2 numbers) that the Barzan Tower was completed minus X.
C= The number of points on the stars that form the pattern on the perimeter fence at the southern edge of the Barzan tower plus half of X
D= The number of points on the stars plus the number of stories that comprise Barzan Tower
X = Located inside the physical cache at Stage 1
Stage 2 takes you in a straight line to one of the western suburbs of Doha built in the 1970s. To a residential compound to be exact. Here you will find another physical cache that gives you X. The rest of the answers are within sight of the cache location and will guide you to the final stage of your journey at:
N25° A.B E51° F.GD
A = The sum of the numbers in the emergency phone number on the large white sign visible from the cache location plus X plus D
B = (C multiplied by 2) plus Y plus (X multiplied by 2.5)
C= The speed limit inside the compound
D = The number contained in the name of the residential compound
F = C plus X
G = Y minus X
Y= The building number of the compound (on the blue plaque at the compound entrance)
X= Located inside the physical cache at Stage 2
Stage 3 takes you to the perimeter of an ancient Qatari site relates to both Stages 1 and 2. The final cache and log-book is located on a magnetic nano the same type as those in the previous stages.
FTF GOES TO Patojen