Zakho, Iraq, Iraq

... office and asked me what i do and why i am going to iraq, blah blah. This whole process took 2 hours and sucked. Northern Iraq is called Kurdistan and is autonomous of regular Arab Iraq (where bagdad and all the US soldiers are). It is very safe and ...

... PKK camps on Iraqi soil. (The PKK is the Kurdish Workers Party, a separatist terrorist organization which operates between Turkey, Iraq and Iran to create a Kurdish state.) Kevin was showing us around the staging ground/yard for the convoys and we ...

... who then drove the last little bit so that I was outside of all the government border buildings and officially in Kurdistan Iraq!  From there, I grabbed a ride with the Turkish businessman who crossed the border with me.  He was very friendly as ...

I decided to spend the night in Zakho since I was in no real rush and I thought it would be interesting to see this border town.  However, shortly after checking into the hotel, I realized a major difference with Turkey and Syria which was the lesser ...