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10 Days – Baghdad to Basra

10 Days – Baghdad to Basra

10 Days
Day 01 :
Baghdad

Arrive early in Baghdad, after visa procedures, start the tour by visiting the most cultural street in Baghdad (AL-Mutanabi Street), full of the Baghdadi atmosphere and bookshops, and enter Haaraier Al-Mutanabbi without forgetting the 1904 cultural coffee shop (AL-SHABANDER), then go to the Abbasid Palace and Al-Mustansiriyah School, the first school in the Islamic era that spread the knowledge across the world back in the 12th century, finish, and then go to see Taq Khasra in Ctesiphon, go back to Baghdad to visit:

-Martyr Monument

-Tahrir square

-Fardous square (where SADDAM HUSSAIN statue was)

-Saving Iraqi Culture Monument

-Shahrazad and Shahrayar monument

At night, visit Al- Kadhimiya shrines, then go to the hotel, dinner, and overnight.

Day 02 :
Mosul

After breakfast, head to the National Museum, then proceed to Samra. Visit Malwiya, the spiral minaret (without going up), with the Great Mosque next to it, and then visit Abu Dalaph minaret, the two amazing minarets that were built in the Abbasid period and have a great effect on the Islamic stories. Then visit the Abbasid Pool Palace. Proceed to Mosul, head straight to the hotel, and overnight.

Day 03 :
Mosul

After breakfast, visit the old city of Mosul, the remains of (Al-Noori Mosque and Mosque of Prophet Yonus, the wall of Nineveh, Nirkal gate, and Bashtabya Castle), then to the old houses and remains that had been destroyed by ISIS, Baitona cultural meeting house, after lunch, head to visit Der Mar Matti, dinner, and overnight.

Day 04 :
Baghdad

Early at 7:00 am, head to the archaeological site of Hatra, then proceed to Al Shirqat to visit the archaeological site of Ashur. After finishing leave to Baghdad, then go to the hotel and overnight.

Day 05 :
Karbalaa

After breakfast, head to Babylon, the legendary city, to see the archaeological sites of ancient Babylon and Saddam’s Palace (from outside), then head to the Ziggurats of Kish, the Ziggurats of Borsippa, and the birthplace of prophet Ibrahim, lunch, then proceed to Karbala, lunch at arrival, then go to the hotel to rest, visit the Shrine of Imam Hussein and his brother Al-Abbas at night, dinner, and overnight.

Day 06 :
Najaf

Proceed to Najaf, on the way, visit prophet Ezekiel shrine and the old bazaar next to it. After arrival, visit Imam Ali holy shrine and the bazaar next to it, then go to the highest point in Al-Najaf to see Najaf Sea and the largest cemetery in the world, which contains 8 million graves and is still increasing (WADI AL-SALAM), and visit Kufa mosque (the center of Muslims KHELAPHA during the 7th and the 8th centuries). Have dinner in the hotel and overnight.

Day 07 :
Nasiriyah

Early in the morning, head to visit URUK, the place where writing was invented and the first letter came out to the world, proceed to the Ziggurats of Ur (the first type of temple that was built to worship the gods and the goddess of Mesopotamia, Ishtar, Marduk, where the first inventions came out to the world) and Abraham's house, after finishing, go to Nassiriyah to visit AL-Haboby Street and overnight.

Day 08 :
Basra

Go straight to marshes to see the amazing nature of southern Iraq and the old ways of people (Mudef house, traditional lunch, which will be Maskof fish, and a river trip in the marshes channels by boat), then finish and head to QURNA, the place where the two rivers meet (TIGRIS AND EUPHRATES), also to see ADAM TREE, then go to BASRA and overnight.

Day 09 :
Basra

After breakfast, visit the old houses that were built during the Ottoman period (AL-SHANASHEEL), and enter the Hasson Museum in the same street, then proceed to Basra Museum. After finishing, visit the Church of the Syriac Catholics, the old markets, and Kuwait Street, then take a boat trip in Shatt al-Arab to see Saddam Hussein's palaces from the outside, then take a free tour in Al-Jazaer Street, dinner, and overnight in Basra.

Day 10 :
Basra and Flight

End of the tour, transfer to Basra International airport According to the airline tickets.

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10 Days – Baghdad to Basra