Iraq

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Comment by Kurdistan Adventures on August 16, 2011 at 3:15am

G'day guys,

 

My name is Shannon from Kurdistan Adventures. We specialise in group tours and custom travel in the Kurdistan region of Iraq and are based on the ground. We have hosted many intrepid Western travellers here without a single incident.

 

The safety and security situation is completely different in the Kurdish region and part of the challenge for us is getting this message across; unlike the rest of Iraq.

 

Check out our profile and web site for more information.

 

Cheers,

Shannon.

Comment by David Paul Appell on November 4, 2010 at 2:51pm

Good tip, Mike. Hopefully Hinterland will join us on here. In any case, I'm sure we'll be talking a lot of security issues. Another deadly bombing in one of Baghdad's Shiite neighborhoods this week, for example -- tragic, for sure, but from a tourism standpoint it's an area unlikely to see any tourists. Also, has tourism in Ahmed Awa, in the Kurdish zone, suffered noticeably since those 3 American hikers were lured across the Iranian border and jailed? What would be the best way, when visiting that area, to avoid such a possibility if the border area is apparently as unclear as it is?

Comment by Michael Luongo on November 4, 2010 at 1:36pm

There is a British company called Hinterland which runs tours...when I was there I was also told of individual tourists who come too......the visa itself is very hard to get a mix of bureaucratic inefficiency and other issues, so best procured through a group or through contacts.

Comment by John Kipper on November 3, 2010 at 9:18am

This would be the trip of a lifetime!!!

Any tour operators running trips to Iraq at all, or is it all indie travel?