Baghdad - Iraq
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TRAVEL TO IRAQ!
ROUTE№ IQ11
(12days /11nights)
Mosul –Ashur – Nimrud – Nineveh - Hatra – Tikrit - Samarra – Baghdad– Babylon –
Borsippa- Al-Khifal – Kufa – Karbala – Al-Ukhaider - oasis of Entamur – Caves of Taar –
Nippur – Uruk – Larsa – Ur – Eridu - Nasiriya – Al-Ahwar – Al-Qurna – Basrah – Baghdad
1 day / Arrival in Mosul - is Iraq's 3d largest city.Accommodation in hotel 5*. Acquaintance with a city.
The Great (Nuriddin) Mosque (1170—1172.) with minaretAl-Hadba (XII century);
RuinsofQara Serai -The Black Palace(XIII century); mausoleum ofImam Yahya(XIII century); Mosque - mausoleum ofNabi Yunus(X century).
Dinner and night in Mosul.
2 day / Breakfast in hotel.
- Atripto ancient cityAshur.
- Atripto one of the greatest ancient cities of Iraq – Nimrud.
- Visiting of ancient city Nineveh.
Return to Mosul. Free time.
Dinner and night in Mosul.
3 day / Breakfast in hotel.
- Atripto ancient cityHatra.
- Trip toTikrit. Accommodation in hotel 4*.
Visiting of the Big Mosque of Saddam Hussein.
Dinner and night in Tikrit.
4day / Breakfast in hotel.
- Trip to native village of Saddam Hussein - Al Awja.
Visiting of the Tomb of Saddam Hussein.
-Trip in the capital of the Abbasid Caliphate–Samarra.
The Great Mosque Al-Mutawakkil (847); Spiral minaret Al-Malweyya; JawsaqAl-KhaqaniPalace; Al-Ma'shouq (the Beloved) Palace.
-DeparturetoBaghdad. Accommodation in hotel 4*.
Dinner and night in Baghdad.
5day / Breakfast in hotel.
Visiting of an archaeological IraqMuseum.
Acquaintance with old Bagdad, street Al-Mutanabi, market «Souq as-Saray».
Palace Al Kushlya in which the city administration at the time of Ottoman empire settled down.
Snack in "Kubba-saray" (at will for an additional payment).
Visiting of Al-Mustansereyya School (13 century).
Visiting of a historical Baghdad Museum in which are stored ten thousand monuments, among them - storehouse of tablets of ancient inhabitants of Mesopotamia, the largest storehouse of the Arabian manuscripts.
Dinner and night in Baghdad.
6day / Breakfast in hotel.
- At 7.00 is departure to fine Babylon, known to everyone since the childhood.
The largest city of ancient Mesopotamia, capital of the Babylon kingdom in 19-6 centuries BC.
According to the Old testament, Babylon has been erected by Avraam's ancestors who wished to construct a city and a tower to heavens and whence Avraam, the monotheism founder, has moved to Palestin.
Here the Judaism, Christianity and Moslem arose.
- A trip to legendary archaeological small town Borsippa.
- Visitingof small town Al-Khifal – well-known Jewish Shrine.
- Visitingof small town Kufa - mosque of Kufa.
- Arrival to the city of Karbala. Accommodation in hotel 4*.
Dinner and night in Karbala.
7day / Breakfast in hotel.
- VisitingofPalaceAl-Ukhaider.
- Atriptooasis of Entamur.
- CavesofTaar.
Dinner and night in Karbala.
8day / Breakfast in hotel.
- Early departure and trip to ancient Sumer cities Nippur, Uruk, Larsa.
- Excursion in the great ancient Sumer city of Ur.
Among monuments of Ur the ruins of enormous "Babel towers" - ziggurats, towers of a temple complex of lunar goddess Nanna.
- Excursion in the great ancient Sumer city Eridu.
- Arrival to Nasiriya. Accommodation in hotel 5*.
Acquaintance with a city. Old streets Akdel Hava and Al Habuby.
Dinner and night in Nasiriya.
9 day / Breakfast in hotel.
- DeparturetoAl-Ahwar – acquaintance with a life of marsh Arabs.
- AtriptoAl-Qurna, where we will see "Adam's tree".
According to the bible legend, Al-Qurna is the reputed site of the Gardens of Eden.
Here on a small platform behind a fencing is stored the stunted trunk of an ancient tree from which, according to a bible legend, foremother Eve has broken a paradise apple.
- TransfertoBasrah.Accommodation in hotel 4*. Free time.
Dinner and night in Basrah.
10 day / Breakfast in hotel.
Acquaintance with a city.
Basrahhas been called “the Venice of the East”.
Dinner and night in Basrah.
11 day / Breakfastinhotel.
- In 10 km from a modern city – ruins of Old Basra (based in 630th).
Return to Baghdad. Accommodation in hotel 4*.
Dinner and night in Baghdad.
12day / Breakfastinhotel.
Transfer to airport of Baghdad.