http://www.odyssei.com Iraq, - lately on the site en-us Thu, 25 Jan 2007 21:04:01 +0100 Thu, 25 Jan 2007 21:04:01 +0100 pet@odyssei.com (Piotr Jaworski) pjm@odyssei.com (Pawel Jaworski) http://www.odyssei.com/travel-tips/24666.html Required travel documents for Iraq: passport [...] http://www.odyssei.com/travel-tips/24666.html http://www.odyssei.com/travel-tips/24330.html Electric power: 230V / 50 Hz [...] http://www.odyssei.com/travel-tips/24330.html http://www.odyssei.com/travel-tips/23964.html Area code to Iraq: +964 [...] http://www.odyssei.com/travel-tips/23964.html http://www.odyssei.com/travel-tips/13633.html Built by a 'progressive' Turkish Governor of Iraq, both on the river. The Tigris, rolling down from Turkey, is not blue and glamorous here. It is wide and very strong and looks old. It is best seen from a boat. [...] http://www.odyssei.com/travel-tips/13633.html http://www.odyssei.com/travel-tips/13632.html This monument is one of the most important in Iraq. A huge gilded dome on a circular drum. Originally built in AD 799, it is the double-tomb of the Imams Musa and his grandson Mohamed Jawad, who died in AD 799 and 835 respectively. Rebuilt by the Turkish [...] http://www.odyssei.com/travel-tips/13632.html http://www.odyssei.com/travel-tips/13631.html Mostly desert. Mild to cool winters with dry, hot, cloudless summers. Northern mountainous regions along Iranian and Turkish borders experience cold winters with occasionally heavy snows that melt in early spring, sometimes causing extensive flooding in c [...] http://www.odyssei.com/travel-tips/13631.html http://www.odyssei.com/travel-tips/13630.html Known as Bab el Wastani. The caravans passed through it on the Golden Road that led across Persia to Samarkand. [...] http://www.odyssei.com/travel-tips/13630.html http://www.odyssei.com/travel-tips/13629.html The shrine remains of a holy ascetic-Sheikh Maruf, who died a few yeas after Harun. It was burned in 1067 and rebuilt in 1215 by Caliph al-Nasir. [...] http://www.odyssei.com/travel-tips/13629.html http://www.odyssei.com/travel-tips/13628.html In Kerkh is the tomb of Zubeida, Harun's wife, built in 1200. Zubeida is buried in the great golden-domed tomb-shrine of Kadhimain. The tomb is surrounded by a cementery with lots of graves [...] http://www.odyssei.com/travel-tips/13628.html