Baghdad - Iraq
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TRAVEL TO IRAQ!
ROUTE № IQ3
(9 days /8 nights)
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 - Ctesiphon – Baghdad
1 day / Arrival in Baghdad. Accommodation in hotel 4*.Baghdad - a city "Thousand and one night..."
Visiting of Mausoleum of Abu Hanife Al-Nuaman.
Visiting of the Gold Mosque, 16 century, (Mausoleum of Mussa Al-Kadhim).
Visiting of carpet factory, acquaintance with manufacture of carpets of handwork in ancient national Iraq traditions.
Walk to street Abu Nuas.
Dinner at small restaurant «Al Baghdadi» and night in Baghdad.
2 day / Breakfast in hotel.
Visiting of an archaeological Iraq Museum.
Visiting of a mosque of Haider Khan.
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.
3 day / 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.
- Visiting of small town Al-Khifal – well-known Jewish Shrine.
- Visiting of small town Kufa - mosque of Kufa.
- Arrival to the city of Karbala. Accommodation in hotel 4*.
Dinner and night in Karbala.
4 day / Breakfast in hotel.
Acquaintance with Karbala – the second sacred city for Shi'a-Muslims.
- Visiting of Palace Al-Ukhaider.
- A trip to oasis of Entamur.
- Caves of Taar.
Dinner and night in Karbala.
5 day / Breakfast in hotel.
- A 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.
6 day / Breakfast in hotel.
- Departure to Al-Ahwar – acquaintance with a life of marsh Arabs.
- A trip to Al-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.
- Transfer to Basrah. Accommodation in hotel 4*. Free time.
Dinner and night in Basrah.
7 day / Breakfast in hotel.
Acquaintance with a city.
Basrah has been called “the Venice of the East”.
- In 10 km from a modern city – ruins of Old Basra (based in 630th).
Dinner and night in Basrah.
8 day / Breakfast in hotel.
Early departure. Return to Baghdad.
On the way visiting of the most ancient capital of Sasanids - Ctesiphon.
Accommodation in hotel 4*. Free time.
Dinner and night in Baghdad.
9 day / Breakfast in hotel. Transfer to airport of Baghdad.