Zakho, 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 ...

... pacified when they realized that we were all Americans and when we started asking the soldiers about their home towns etc. Eventually, everything was sorted out and we were allowed to go. We stayed the night at a hotel in the border town of Zakho.

... , I later learned through Dohuk University students from Sinjar that there are other roads such as one that goes to Zakho.  It would be interesting to try this crossing in the future.  From Hassake, I took a taxi to Qamisle  ...

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 ...