Our trip to Erbil Kurdistan (Northern Iraq) August 3 - 11th 2018 was a life changing experience, I will not look at Erbil Kurdistan the same way. I always use to think that these people are a warring people, a people that were really hard and not caring...or when you think of Iraq, you think of war, devastations, ruins, burka, Islamic...and things like that....it was kind of worrisome about the whole idea of going to Erbil Iraq.
We have never been outside the United States of American other then Canada, but this was our first time going out of the country, we were worried and excited at the same time.
We step foot on the Sunport international airport in Albuquerque, New Mexico and getting our tickets, we travel a lot getting on planes, but this time around, the clerk said wait for about 10 mins. but we soon realized that the clerk called security and they brought the dogs around us, the dogs sniffed and went on...I guess we were ok ...hahaha that was weird. from the very start of our trip from Albuquerque we were delayed our plane to Chicago was delayed, by one hour, so when we landed in Chicago wee were one hour behind schedule we landed in terminal 3 and we were suppose to leave from Terminal 5 which was about 2 miles from where we were...We hurried and got to that terminal with help of the electric cart. but by the time that we got to terminal 5 it was too late, Our plane was leaving in 15 mins. so the Airline told us the next plane out was the next day same time....so they got us a motel room and they paid for dinner which was cool in a way. The next day we took off in the big plane a 777 Quatar plane and we flew for 14 hours over to Doha, Quatar, a total different world as soon, as we touched down we could see the richness of this country, we could see in the distance the city of Doha by the Persian Gulf it was in the evening when we landed and the sun was setting as we took off again for Ebril, Iraq. How exciting it was, We hear about it and we read about it. but now we are walking in it, as we flew over Iraq we saw from the air all the oil wells and they were burning off the excess oil hundreds of them (Lots of Oil)..Wow...We landed in Erbil went through security checks (and they checked everything). totally different, 1st thing you see is Guns...kinda strange to see....but now I know it was good felt safe...Went to our Motel...it was very very nice, I thought wow...there are nice places here, comfortable
OK to be continued ....come back for the finishing story.
We have never been outside the United States of American other then Canada, but this was our first time going out of the country, we were worried and excited at the same time.
We step foot on the Sunport international airport in Albuquerque, New Mexico and getting our tickets, we travel a lot getting on planes, but this time around, the clerk said wait for about 10 mins. but we soon realized that the clerk called security and they brought the dogs around us, the dogs sniffed and went on...I guess we were ok ...hahaha that was weird. from the very start of our trip from Albuquerque we were delayed our plane to Chicago was delayed, by one hour, so when we landed in Chicago wee were one hour behind schedule we landed in terminal 3 and we were suppose to leave from Terminal 5 which was about 2 miles from where we were...We hurried and got to that terminal with help of the electric cart. but by the time that we got to terminal 5 it was too late, Our plane was leaving in 15 mins. so the Airline told us the next plane out was the next day same time....so they got us a motel room and they paid for dinner which was cool in a way. The next day we took off in the big plane a 777 Quatar plane and we flew for 14 hours over to Doha, Quatar, a total different world as soon, as we touched down we could see the richness of this country, we could see in the distance the city of Doha by the Persian Gulf it was in the evening when we landed and the sun was setting as we took off again for Ebril, Iraq. How exciting it was, We hear about it and we read about it. but now we are walking in it, as we flew over Iraq we saw from the air all the oil wells and they were burning off the excess oil hundreds of them (Lots of Oil)..Wow...We landed in Erbil went through security checks (and they checked everything). totally different, 1st thing you see is Guns...kinda strange to see....but now I know it was good felt safe...Went to our Motel...it was very very nice, I thought wow...there are nice places here, comfortable
OK to be continued ....come back for the finishing story.
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