DESTINATIONS

Where we go

Nineteen governorates, five regions, five thousand years. Filter by region or just scroll — every card opens a full city page.

19 CITIES

Two giant crossed swords held by stone hands under a clear blue sky.
Central Iraq

Baghdad

Tea, poetry, and the slow brown Tigris

Blue glazed brick gate with animal reliefs under a clear sky.
Central Iraq

Babylon

Nebuchadnezzar's street, still under your feet

Group of tourists posing in front of the Malwiya spiral minaret under a clear blue sky.
Central Iraq

Samarra

Climb the spiral the caliphs built

Ornate shrine facade with green banners, Arabic calligraphy, and blue-tiled patterns under night sky.
Central Iraq

Karbala

Two golden domes and a river of people

Two illuminated minarets flank a golden-domed shrine at dusk, with tiled archways and courtyard visible.
Southern Iraq

Najaf

The city that reads, prays, and remembers

Massive stepped mud-brick ziggurat under clear blue sky with gravel foreground.
Southern Iraq

Nasiriyah & the Marshes

Abraham's city and the reed sea

Illuminated cable-stayed bridge over water at night with colorful lights reflecting on the surface.
Southern Iraq

Basra

Palms, poets, and the meeting of rivers

Visitors explore ancient stone columns and arches under a clear blue sky.
Northern Iraq

Mosul

Watch a city stitch itself back together

Large brick citadel with arched gateway and rows of windows under a clear blue sky.
Kurdistan Region

Erbil

Six thousand years, still pouring tea

Natural rock arch framing turquoise water cascading through a mossy canyon with bare trees on slopes.
Kurdistan Region

Sulaymaniyah

Tea, poetry, and cold mountain air

Stone temple with conical roof behind bare trees under blue sky.
Kurdistan Region

Duhok

A mesa town, a bridge, a sacred spring

Golden statue of a fallen figure on green turf, surrounded by Kurdish flags and visitors in a park.
Kurdistan Region

Halabja

16 March 1988, and everything since

Curved brick wall with crenellations and Arabic calligraphy under a clear blue sky.
Northern Iraq

Kirkuk

One hill, four languages, a fire still burning

The historic multi-arch stone Alwand bridge spanning the green Alwand river in Khanaqin, Diyala, under a blue sky with scattered cloud; a blue-domed mosque, a minaret and palm trees stand on the far bank, with reed beds in the foreground.
Central Iraq

Diyala

Orange orchards and the Alwand's stone arches

A long concrete barrage carrying a road and walkway across the wide Tigris River at Kut; the greenish river fills the left half, a steel gate-gantry runs into the distance on the right, a woman and child walk the walkway, and a dark SUV is parked on the road under a bright, partly cloudy sky.
Central Iraq

Wasit

The Tigris held on fifty-six gates

Visitors ride a slender wooden mashoof canoe across open water in the Hawizeh Marshes of Maysan, banks of green reeds lining the far shore under a pale daytime sky.
Southern Iraq

Maysan

The wilder marsh, east of the Tigris

Ruined mud-brick mounds in desert foreground with large modern building atop a palm-dotted hill in background.
Southern Iraq

Muthanna

Where writing began, and a lake of salt

The eroded mud-brick ziggurat of Nippur rising from a flat, empty plain under a clear sky, with a square brick structure standing on its summit.
Southern Iraq

Qadisiyyah

Enlil's ziggurat, still rising from the plain

The octagonal stone Minaret of Anah standing under a clear sky in the town of Anah, Al-Anbar, western Iraq, its eight faces carved with rows of pointed niches rising in tapering storeys, with low buildings and open ground around its base.
Western Iraq

Anbar

The Euphrates, the desert, a rebuilt minaret

The gate is open.

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