Country Info
- Baghdad
- Capital
- Iraqi Dinar (IQD)
- Currency
- 23,331,985
- Population
- IQ
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Iraq
Travel Blogs from Iraq
Breitling Airwolf Rema
The Breitling watch company started in 1884 in high altitude of Switzerland modern casino organization that built precision surfaces and chronographs in the technological and commercial community. It wasn’t until 1892, if your business gone ...
Sandbox Sailor Makes it to Baghdad
Finally made it to Iraq...living on Camp Victory. Have also stopped in Al Asad and Basra. Fortunately, did not have to leave the ...
Erbil the new GOLF state
Headed to Erbil, they are wantting to bring money in through tourism in a big way and have plans for massive investment including seeveral world class gold courses, get here before it becomes to expensive. I didnt stay to long as a little oppresive and I ...
My first entry; not travel per say
... have a blog specifically for my travels. I found this site through a friend and decided to use it. So, here I sit in Erbil, Kurdistan, Iraq waiting for my next trip to come. Perhaps there will be pictures! I will also see if I can put some past trips on ...
2010 sees numerous bold new Breitling watches
2010 sees numerous bold new Breitling watches but this Galactic 41 model one is the most demure - and probably an improved choice on many men. After a period of upping the ante both size wise and when it comes to hostile styling, the Galactic 41 ...
Welcome to Kurdistan
... even private homes would have personal generators to provide an uninterrupted electrical supply. Entering Iraq is not difficult. Unfortunately the border crossings between Syria and Iraq are closed so I traveled into ...
Can we please get the heck out of Baghdad?
Neither of us got much sleep last night, too worried about how we were going to get out of this city. It's not easy to get to the airport from the Embassy. As a matter of fact, it takes at least 20 people to coordinate the movement of two people, it ...
A tour to unspoilt paradise
The cabin crew announced the approaching of Port Blair airport. I tried to take a peek down from the window. Oh God! I think this is what called love at first sight. I could only see a combination of different sheds of blue and green. The green isles ...
The Hamilton Road
... back to the 1920s it is a feat of engineering. In Turkey the hills are rolling sloped like those in England the mountains in Iraq are sheer walls of rock, very formidable. It was simple a beautiful ride. Told off for taking pictures of the border......The ...
Breitling Different watches
Breitling Different watches, Concepts in the Specialists Weight lifting does not sterling silver Breitling, the actual good maintain continuity himself kept in mind however Breitling Watch from virtuoso divers, pilots, and jet pilots. This ...
Here at last
Landed in Baghdad at 0730. Quite an interesting feeling with very friendly people, but armed with rifles......Iraqi soldiers all over the place, all armed, but very friendly. We were greeted by people from the Vice Presidents office. We went through a ...
Leaving Iraq... for now
... but this is truly a great reward - a free round trip ticket to anywhere in the world. DISCLAIMER: I am a Military Officer working in Iraq. In many ways, I have a common job like most people back in the US; just see the movie "Office Space" or the tv ...
As Much as I Hate to Say Goodbye...Just Kidding.
Finally Back in Austin, TX Live Music Capital of the World Home Sweet ...
Border crossing and 5 days with a kurdish family
... up meeting a guy by the name of Mejer. He is a Kurdish guy that was working as a translator for the US Army in Iraq. Mejer, knows 5 languages (I later found out that he cannot read or write!), and we hung out for the afternoon and checked out an art and ...
Mission Aborted
... had them under their thumb, it was the Turks, or the Arabs. Prior to 2003 their ancestral homeland was divided between Iraq, Iran, Syria, and Turkey. But now they enjoy a measure of autonomy that they have never had before and even though the ...
Jennifer in Iraq
This countury had many war but better the now. (i don't know complete about Iraq) I stay hotel of the name is ishtar hotel that is very comfortable and expensive. I always eat rice and fruit. IRAQ has a many oil.so oil prize is very cheap. IRAQ IS ...
A surprising Kurdistan
In the morning we made it across and were in Dohuk by mid-morning. Surrounded by mountains and under blue skies, Dohuk could join Urfa on the list of the most-livable mid-sized cities: traffic is almost non-existent, there are great parks, artificial ...
Random food and games
This was going to be i.ler's last day in Kurdistan so we wondered through the bazaar and tried any random food that we could find, including some specialty boiled turnips and seemingly home-made chewing gum; the latter possibly being one of the worst ...
Towards Iran
I had planned on going to visit a couchsurfer who lives on the so-called Hamilton Road, which follows a spectacular landscape East to the Iranian border. She told me to get in touch with two Iranians who were also in Hawler and planning on staying at her ...
Soran Sostrange
Soran is a strange town. Seems like everything is 30 years old or less, and even around the bazaar it is impossible to find a structure that is not made of cement bricks. There are lots of construction sites, but nobody seems to be working on them. At ...
Beautiful Sulaymaniyah
... , and beautiful, with mountains on its outskirts and parks in its heart. I discovered here that it's common for people from the "other Iraq" to come to Kurdistan in search of a safe job and a peaceful life... but it's not only Iraqis who are coming. The ...