Iraq just opened for tourists and is still an undiscovered place. Iraqi Kurdistan has been deemed safe for longer, but federal Iraq’s tourism is still in its infancy. Iraq is probably not the first destination to think about as a place to travel to, even when the Middle East is already on your mind. However, […]
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Visiting the ruins of Babylon is considered one of the top and most beautiful things to do in Iraq, which is part of every Iraqi travel itinerary. Thanks to the Tower of Babel, the Hanging gardens, and the Code of Law of Hammurabi, Babylon is the most reputed ancient city and the place where Alexander
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Lalish is the holiest site for the followers of the Yezidi religion that you must include in your Iraqi Kurdistan itinerary. Yezidi people have their own religious sect for which they have been persecuted and harassed for centuries. They were the most vulnerable to the Islamic State’s brutality as well. Despite hardships, Yezidis strive to
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Mosul encompasses the remains of ancient Nineveh, the last capital of the Assyrian empire, the largest and most populous empire of its day in the early first millennium B.C., though not much is left from that. Unfortunately, it is more engraved in the minds that Mosul was the capital of the Islamic State in Iraq
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I’m still thinking about the charm of Baghdad and why it made me constantly extend my stay to the point that it became one of my favorite places in Iraq. Baghdad has terrible traffic with no underground that would ease the congestion, making you waste a lot of time every day in the vehicle. The
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Basra is the second biggest city and the “financial capital” of Iraq, close to the Iranian and Kuwaiti border in the south. Basra has become the most important international port in the Gulf during the British after WWI. It is not its tourist attractions but its location along the Shatt Al-Arab that makes it a
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This article sums up the most important things you need to know before traveling to Iraq, a that has only recently opened up for tourists, and tourism is still in its infancy. The country went through the Gulf wars of 1991 and 2003, the Iraq-Iran war (1980-1988), followed by the civil war of 2006-2007. Finally,
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Iraq, the cradle of civilization, the land between two rivers, the Euphrates and Tigris, was once the center of wisdom and humanity’s greatest inventions. It is the land where writing began, where zero was introduced into mathematics, and where the tales of The Thousand and One Night were first told. Iraq was the first State
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