Bahrain Sports and Activities

Watersports: Bahrain’s year-round fine weather provides scope for a wide range of sea- or land-based activities. Facilities for swimming, game fishing (grouper and barracuda), scuba-diving, snorkelling, water-skiing, windsurfing, parasailing and yachting can be found on the islands.

Other: For those more at home on dry land, there are golf courses, racecourses, riding and health clubs. Golf can be played either at a green 18-hole golf course at Riffa (website: www.riffagolfclub.com), just 15 minutes from Manama. The skating rink and bowling alley at Busheri’s in Budaiya has snooker tables and video rooms. There are expatriate rugby and cricket teams. Football is the national game and Bahrain has an olympic-sized stadium. Horse racing, horse riding and camel-racing are also popular.