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General Tips: do a trip to Babylon:...
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  • Written by MProcher on Aug 24, 2002
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    • Favorite Thing: do a trip to Babylon: Unfortunately the buildings of this worldfamous city have been destroyed not only once. What you can see today are mostly rebuilt palaces, walls, ceremonial avenues, ...
    While the famous statue of the Lion of Babylon remained there many other pieces have been taken away to museums in Iraq and abroad.
    Ishtar gate is may be the most well known piece having been removed from it's original place. There is a copy in Babylon today that shows a little how the gate looked and how it wellcomed travellers and visitors. I can just hope that once the original gate will find it's way back from Berlin to Babylon.


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    General Tips: Ktesiphon
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    General Tips: Uruk

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    • Favorite Thing: Uruk

    pic shows: the worldfamous pin mosaic! This was no mosaic for floors but for walls.


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    General Tips: Ur
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    General Tips: Ukhaider Castle
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    General Tips: Nimrud
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    General Tips: Ninive
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    General Tips: Hatra
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    General Tips: Baghdad: the famous city of...
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    • Favorite Thing: Baghdad: the famous city of the stories of alf laila wa laila - 1001 nights. It is somehow disappointing if you expect the city to have the old charme mentioned in the 'alf laila'. Baghdad is a modern city with all the advantages and disadvantages of that.

    As a modern city Baghdad takes a lot of it's charme from the river Tigris. I was quite impressed how 'normal' life was in Baghdad in 1998. Nothing to see of the bombings from the war.

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    General Tips: visit Kerbela: 2 islamic...
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    • Favorite Thing: visit Kerbela: 2 islamic monuments are the main attractions in Kerbela: the shrine of Abu-l-Abbas and the one of Hussein. Both men were some of the most honoured martyrs in islam, especially in the shiitic islam. A shrine is a large mosque, ver much decorated with the sarcophagus of the mentioned person inside. In Iraq it is normally not allowed to enter the inner part of a shrine. pic shows: Abu-l-Abbas Shrine


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    Comments for MProcher about Iraq
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    kielorla Wed Jul 7, 2004 22:36 UTC
     Very Nice page, Iraq has a very rich and interesting history but too bad all the wars have destory everything. Even when it become tourist friendly, all the historical sites had been destory. We can only rely on photos for its beauty.    		LanaFromRiga Thu Mar 11, 2004 14:44 UTC
     Interesting Tips and impressive pictures. Are ziccurats in Iraq now? Or we can see them only on history books?
    beret Thu Jan 8, 2004 15:48 UTC
     Nicely done. I cannot imagine anyone visiting this country on holiday anytime soon. Great photos and writing. Thank you.    		manuelEB Sat Oct 4, 2003 09:27 UTC
     Well done! For a moment I though all Iraq related pages here were propaganda by occupation forces. Yours deserve to be number one.
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