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Walked again to the "Sheraton" to inquire about flights out of Iraq from the travel agent inside the hotel, security is always tight here, this hotel is popular to business people, at the parking lot you see lots of SUVs mostly Toyota Land cruisers and a few sports cars.
#ERBIL TO SULAYMANIYAH TAXI FULL#
After breakfast we walked down an alleyway full of old men in their costume buying and selling beads and tobacco leaves, they were nice enough to let me take their photos which was cool. it's a cool place to people watch, not a lot of women walking just mostly men. we sat down at the big park with fountains I think it is called Shah park, overlooking the citadel, we were sat with the locals sipping tea or coffee and smoking sisha. Been a long day, spent mostly walking the city center.We both slept very well, our room is small but has good ceiling fan and we have good very hot shower! The only thing is power gets cut in the morning, at least we are out most of the day so its no matter. It was getting darker so we headed down and tried to find internet and a liquor store! We succeeded by following groups of men into this smallĮrbilstore.We bought some Efes beer and went back to the hotel. We tried to see if we can climb up to the minaret but security forces are all over the place so we just wondered about small alleyways discovering the old houses. Lots of men taking photos of their friends, we noticed a lack of women here, we found them in the bazaar, shopping for clothes and jewelleries! There is a security check beyond the statue and we wonder if we are allowed in, we walked to the security dude and he cupped us and let us go in, this is the ancient settlement where hundreds of stones and mud brick homes are seen, it looks like a ghost town as the government paid the residents to evacuate and so they can redevelop the place with help from UNESCO, it's eerrie especially at dusk but we found a few interesting buildings one with nice tiled ceiling mosaic frescoes.
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#ERBIL TO SULAYMANIYAH TAXI DRIVER#
3 hours more or less we drove into dry desolate landscape, brown and arid at this time though there is already a chill in the air as it is now autumn, I noticed a number of checkpoints and we got checked 3 times, most soldiers can't read Roman letters and they thumb through my passport meticulously and asks where I am from as if my passport does not says it at all.Įventually made it to Erbil but my taxi driver won't drive down to the garage, he wants me to get off somewhere in the city and get another taxi to my preferred hotel, really ticked off at this dude, he eventually dropped me off somewhere and a taxi guy waiting quoted me 4,000 dinars to get toĮrbil for Iraq it is, they have no backpacker's facilities here after all this really is rarely visited as of yet.Then next task is to find ATM machine Frank the German guy and I walked towards the big park with fountains just below the citadel on the south side, there is a big mall on the other side of it called Nishtiman there we found an ATM machine at the bank of Baghdad, a small branch is on the side of the mall, they were very helpful as I tried in vain to draw money, Frank the German had no problems but my card always gets declined, one of the managers told us to try the International Hotel 10 minutes away pointing us the direction, they have a couple of ATM machines there, ok so we set off, and we noticed a wall of concrete barriers surrounding the hotel premises and we have to go through a couple strict security checks, the locals refer to the hotel as Sheraton but its really not!Īnyway after getting inside the hotel we looked for the ATMs they were at the lobby next to the restaurant and Western union office, alas both ATMsĮrbilclimbed up the citadel and in the southern side where there is a sculpture of a sitting Mubarek Ahmed Sharafaddin, a 12th century historian. Walked to the share taxi stand next to the bazaar, I paid 15,000 dinar and waited half an hour to get more people before we set off. I have to wake up reception, still sleeping at 9am, paid my bills and he wrote me a place I can stay in Erbil. CitadelWoke up early to leave for the next city, Erbil, about 180 kms away is the capital of Kurdish Iraq.
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