A small group of adventure travelers chose Iraq as their next tourist destination. A group of eight people, including two Americans traveled Iraq as the country hopes to get back to normalcy by attracting tourists from around the world.
A cradle of civilization Iraq has places and things to show to attract tourists. It's just the safety issue that keeps people going back to Iraq.
According to NBC and NPR "Five Britons, two Americans and a Canadian have been visiting historic sites around Iraq — the first group of Western tourists to travel throughout the country since the fall of Saddam Hussein in 2003.
"Tina Townsend Greaves, of Yorkshire, England, has toured the country from the Kurdish regions in the north to Basra, in the south of the country. She says some of the highlights of her tour have been seeing Babylon, one of Saddam's palaces and locations in Baghdad."
The two weeks tour was organized by a British adventure travel agency.
At the present time when it comes to traveling to Iraq as a tourist I don't know how I feel about this. Anyone want to jump in? In any case this is the first group of tourists in Iraq since 2003.
It should be noted that religious pilgrims from the regional countries, particularly from Iran have visited Iraq since 2005. "The Iraqi and Iranian Ministries of foreign affairs have agreed that 1000 Iranian pilgrims will visit the holy places in Iraq daily. This number will be increased to 5000 pilgrims a day in the near future and as the security situation allows," reports Iraq Directory.
As we read in Atlastours.net "Iraq is a country with unmatched history in the history. When you visit Iraq, unlike any other country in the World, you feel, taste, and smell history. Its indeed the birthplace of Civilization 9000 years ago, where Age of Empires started, and where we, all of us, moved from prehistory to history.
"In ancient times, Iraq's land area was almost equivalent to Mesopotamia, the land between the two great rivers Tigris and Euphrates (Dejla and Furat in Arabic); which sweep down from the mountains of Turkey to meet, 136 km north of the Arabian Gulf, at one of the alleged sites of the Garden of Eden."
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