I’m a tour guide well educated about the history of Mesopotamia, and the most interesting sites in Kurdistan & iraq i have no problem of travelling .during tour i dont drink or smoke, i can design an itinerary based on the locations you want to visit and of course an itinerary that suits your budget.

These are the major sites in Iraq and Kurdistan
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Erbil citadel, more than 6 thousand years old
Gaugamela battle field where Alexander defeated daruish the third.
The oldest and the first aqueduct in the world
sennacherib's aqueduct.
Khanzad castle alstro known as banaman citadel dates back to 16th or early 17th.
Old sadam's palace on Gara mountain.
Lalish Temple 500-600 BC.
Saint Matthew monastery 361 AD.
Alqoush, Rabban Monestry
prophet Nahum's tomb.
Chwar stoon cave , most important
Zoroastrianism cave in the world.
Amide ; so old that there isn't a founded date
Mentioned in many religions visiting the old gate and the Jewish synagogue.
Qabhan school; first and oldest Madrasa in the region.
Shindar cave ; where Neanderthal remains where found.
Qzqapan cave or Zarzi cave dates to the Median empire.
Sulaymaneyah museum second largest in the region.
The red museum in sulaymaneyah ; old Saddams prison.
Halbja the genocide museum of the kurds by the hands of Saddam.
The iran and kurdistan border.

Places in Southern Iraq

Baghdad
- Bab Al Wastani (the only remaining gate of Baghdad) - Al-Safafir Market is the first market in the world.
- Mutanabi Street is famous for poets and writers.
- Abbasid Place.
- Mustansiriya school
- Shabandar Café is one of the oldest cultural cafes in Baghdad have tea and walk around the bazaar.
- Pass through the Green Zone.
-old cultural house on tigress
Lunch in a kurdish restaurant of the owner Of the old heritage house
- Martyr’s Monument which Saddam built during Iraq and Iranian war.
- Square or liberation: Where most of the protests against foreign and domestic

Ziggurat Dur-Kurigalzu 2200 -2000 BC / 30km outside of Baghdad around 30–40- minute drive.
- Lunch brake.
- Ctesiphon / Parthian Empire (247 BCE - 224 CE) until Rome's destruction. Later
restored, it became the capital of the Sassanian Empire (224-651 CE) - 40km outside of Baghdad around 30–40- minute drive.

Hilla, Karbala

Baghdad to Karbala
- Babylon / 40–50-minute drive from Baghdad 1:30 hours tour in the ancient city
- Saddam's Palace/ in the same location exclusive access for our company to all the
areas and rooms in the palace including the roof 1:30 hours tour. - Lunch.
- Karbala (visit the two shrines: Imam Abbas and Imam Hussein) most significant shrines in Shia

Al-Ukhaidir Fortress /50 km south of Karbala, Iraq. It is a large, rectangular fortress erected in 775AD with a unique defensive style. Constructed by the Abbasid caliph's As-Saffah.
- Lunch.
- Visit The Prophet Dhu al-Kifl (Ezekiel) Hebrew Bible prophet.
- Note the shrine is closed, the mosque next it is open and available to visit.

Najaf

Wadi Al-Salam Cemetery. The biggest cemetery in the world.
- Imam Ali Shrine/ most important and first Imam in Islam and the son in law of
Islam’s prophet Mohammed.

Samawa

- 2.5-hour drive to Uruk (5,000 BC). It’s where the first written words were created and the first city in the world. Tour the ancient temples for 1.5 hours.
- Ziggurat of Ur, the birthplace of prophet Abraham 3800 BC, walk around the ancient city tour 1 hour.

Nassryiah
Boat trip in the Iraqi Marshes unesco world heritage site 1 hour , have fish (Mazgof)
1 45 minutes away from the city
- Stay in the reed house with local people for a few hours

Basra
Stay in the reed house with local people for a few hours - Go to Basra 2 hours drive and checkin hotel visit Shanasheel Street, (Old Basrah) - Dinner and overnight in Basra.
- Optional : have a walk around during the night by the Shat al Arab river
And take a boat ride.
- Basra Cultural Museum
- Shatt al-Arab, the point where the two Mesopotamian rivers meet each other.

Samara

Drive to Samara passing by Abu Ghraib, the famous prison which used by US guards tortured Iraqi prisoners. 2 hours drive
- Visit the Malawiya minaret or the grand mosque of Samara and Abo Dalaf Mosque and walk up the tower.
- Time permitting visit Qasr Sl Khalifa or the palace of the Caliphate.

Mousl
Visit the ancient city of Mosul and the houses which were used by ISIS the Islamic state.
- Visit the first mosque built in Iraq during the Umayyad period.
- Visit the ancient walls of Nineveh that are mentioned in the Bible. Three sites in
the city
- Visit Hatra, the ancient city outside of Mosul, a large, fortified city under the
influence of the Parthian Empire and capital of the first Arab Kingdom. The temples are Hellenistic and Roman architecture blend with Eastern decorative features, attesting to the greatness of its civilization. 1:30 hours away from the city
- Come back to Mousl If Time permitting, visit two museums inside Mousl and go to Erbil.

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