Dohuk, Iraq
36° 51' N 42° 59' E
Sep 04, 2007 01:22
Distance 64km

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I am in Iraq!

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Crossing the Turkish-Iraqi border was very smooth. In the Turkey side the officials just spent few minutes to find out what (where?) is Hong Kong, then I got a exit stamp. In Iraqi side was even faster, I'd only got one question that was asked "where are you going?", a big (half page) stamp then appeared on my passport. Thanks for a Swiss girl who gave some printed material about Erbil, I was holding it on hand when the Iraqi-Kurdistan officials asked me where I want to go, they saw the material and stopped ask any more question. The Kurdish border guards were all friendly enough, they all smile and say hello to me. Such a warm welcome.

Found a taxi to Dohuk, the taxi driver there don't like to bargain, the first price they told will be the last price, no negotiate at all. About a hour later I was in Dohuk. Try to find a hotel that some other travellers mentioned in Internet but it was closed, then I found another one even cheaper, about 10US per night but have bathroom inside and TV. Not bad, I have a TV to kill time at night. I don't think I will going out at night, even though everyone said Kurdistan is a safe place.

I was an attraction in the city, no matter where I go there were numbers of local people came to say hello, shake hand, buy me a drink... Feft so good!  And, I was asked to show passport by a 'policeman' (without uniform), the man was very polite and showed his ID to me first, his ID identified he's a kind of the 'internal security officer'. After checking my pp he say sorry to me, shake hand, then leave. :-)  My fırst day in Iraq.

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