Exploring Erbil | Solo in IRAQI KURDISTAN
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 21 ก.ย. 2024
- Getting off the beaten path is the way to go! What an INCREDIBLE place in the world! People thought I was crazy for going to Iraqi Kurdistan but what more can I say. I’m not left speechless often but Iraqi Kurdistan did just that. The hospitality and friendliness of the people here was absolutely amazing! Traveling solo here was a surreal experience that I will never forget! Enjoy the first of this two part series in Iraqi Kurdistan!
And for all those wondering. I felt safer here than I do in the United States!
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I spend 5 days in the same hotel last summer. Erbil is an amazing town and a magical place. Iraqi Kurdistan rocks. Greetings from Germany.
You liked it? how so?
Just curious
@@johnrimhong4287 Well I’ve been on an bike trip from Germany to Iran. I decided to ride my bike to Erbil (Kurdistan is definitely not for biking). But I was also amazed by the people. This was my first real ‚middle east experience‘.
The hotel was OKish. The cheapest available from the better ones. The Arabic quarter where it was located was nice an I loved that Iskan Street was right around the corner. Yummy 🤤
@@KrawwelTheo glad to hear you liked your experience , and yeah iskan is pretty great, you’re always welcome to come back to Kurdistan ❤️❤️❤️
@@johnrimhong4287 I will! I had a serious accident in Iran and I am still recovering. I plan to go to Erbil end of summer this year.
Enjoy your adventures my friend. I will follow your vlog.
@@KrawwelTheo I’m not a vloger or much of a traveler but thanks. And have a speedy recovery my friend.
I've been to Kurdistan before well it was work related but I took a trip there when i was able I went to Erbil and it was one of the best trips I went on
Glad you liked Erbil!
Her bijî Kurdistan
Welcome to Kurdistan! Hope you had a great time.
It was amazing! An incredible place in this world!!
@@DrewAddis thank you! That means a lot. Glad you had fun.
I love your videos from kurdistan❤️
Really appreciate that!
Me and 2 mates spent a week in Iraq last month we rented a jeep for $80 a day headed out to duhok and korek mountain super friendly people where ever we visited
Glad you had a nice time here but our region is called iraqi Kurdistan, peace🤍
Welcome to Kurdistan, Long live America 🇺🇸, we never forget our friends.
FCK America & Kurdistan !!!!
america is not your friend 😭
@@gato5103 we know u guys are not our friend but we still want u to have long live we are just trying to be nice to people
3 million Iraqis died at the hands of George Bush and you still worship America, wow your mentality is like slaves. that's why you can never develop and always live in war and hardship.
you are right
I hope u had a lovely stay in my city ur welcome bless you
I most definitely did! The hospitality is unmatched.
Hi Drew I been there 2012 for almost 1 year I travelled to amedi duhok and Sulamanya.. from Erbil to duhok thinks takes 4 hours to drive.. happy to visit there
Love the Kurdish people.❤
They are some of the friendliest people I've ever met!
Thank you
Love Sulaymaniyah, so beautiful city
Welcome to kurdistan
Thanks for showing this !
Iraq Kurdistan region look awesome !
It's a very unique place!
@@DrewAddis hi again and there is a question.
I remember you have been spoken with a male Kurdish student at Süleymaniye.
And the student was saying that he do not like Iraq gov.
I thought since in the end of 2022, Iraq president who is Kurdish man was elected. Why he is still complaining about Iraq gov even though Kurdish get president position ???
It looks like Kurdish taking leader position doesn’t mean always satisfied all Kurdish people.
@@DrewAddis stay at the place where you from because of you there is no kurdistan
@@Reina.M540The president of Iraq and Kurdistan are no different، they are very corrupt if our people are publicly killed they have no problem thieves do whatever evil they do . And kurdish people 31 handle this we still don't have any treatment We've even done a lot of protests، but they even kill people in the protests، and if you're a student in Kurdistan، once you finish college، you can't have your own job، you just go home only those who are rich can have their own jobs and people who are doctors and lawyers. We are the must unlucky people💔
You are welcome to kurdistan bro
I live in that area 😂❤
I have friend from Kurdistan, eraqi. But we lost contact, i am so sad😔 his name monir hisen bamarni. I hope can meet him again
Thank you for this beautiful video
You are welcome!
Kurdistan❤✌️
Great video, thanks for sharing. love from Iran bro
Thanks man!!
🇳🇱❤🇮🇶 She's crazy
Welcome to kurdistan ❤️☀️💚
17:45 The guy in the taxi just waving in the backgrounds to the camera ☺
Kurdistan ❤
Iraq and iraqi kurdistan is all about history of humanity!
Erbil❤❤❤
I can recommend a nice place in Erbil called Impair which is quite a nice place
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Currently, the biggest opportunity for the Kurds to build a country is on the verge of war with Iran vs. Afghanistan. In this situation, if they secure Afghanistan's territory, declare the country, and strengthen the border with Iran, they can build a country sufficiently. We can do it the way Israel does it. It's a great opportunity
Teşekürler dostum bende türkiye kürdüyüm ama bize ülkemizi kürdistan vermiyorlar ne yazıkki 😢
Welcome to Kurdistan ❤️✌️
Welcome to our country bro..thank you for the our love show the world
I appreciate you!
Thanks mate
Kurdistan ♥️♥️♥️
Erbil citadel belong to over 6000 years ago , the city is one of early human settlement is summers in Mesopotamia. Erbil is where indo European family was born and evolved , Caucasians rice settled in Anatolia first once they domesticated horse they started to move to the west , they took la language with them and evolved to other European languages including English , ex English egg Kurdish hegg , English brother Kurdish brader, English change Kurdish shance, English Shame , Kurdish sharm, devil = dev, here = ere, two = du … eft
As a someone from Erbil,
Thank you for visiting, I guess.
First of all, you butchered the park’s name 😂, that’s okay though.
I like how you didn’t ignore our history and mentioned “Kurdistan” in the title and used the Kurdistan flag in thumbnail, we’ve had a long history of fighting for more rights and recognition so that’s a big sign of respect from you. btw Kurds are Iranians just like Persians, our language is very different from Arabs.
Anyway, Erbil is pronounced like Are-beel, but we Kurds call it Hewlêr, which is a corrupted version of the name. If you plan on returning you should use the name Hewlêr more (pronounced like Hao-ler or How-ler)
Also, you were not the only tourist, you were the only American tourist, we also have Arab tourists from South.
That uncle at 13:43 said “Serçaw” means “On eye”, it’s a respectful Kurdish saying.
I suggest you pronounce Iraq as E-raq not Eye-Iraq for my Arab brothers lol
کردستان مال ایران بود شما؟ تاریخ ایران را بخوانید ایران زمین
داداش شوخی کردم به د ل نگیر مخواستم بگم من ایرانم افتخار میکنم به تاریخ ایران وعرا ق ماهمه از یک تمدن بودیم غربیها ما را جدا کردن زمانی که مرزهارو مشخص کردن من شما رو دعوت میکنم بیان ایران مهد فرهنگ وهنره کهن تمدن شما هم مثل ایران زمین تاریخ کهنی دارید درود از مشهد مقدس برات بهترین ها رو آرزو میکنم
Kurds are not iranians! Are you crazy!
Magnificent
Welcome to Kurdistan ❤️
Welcome .,to kurdstan KURDISH proud of You (brother americian )Long live kurdstan & U.S ✌
Dear Drew, you’re not the only tourist. You are surrounded by Arab, Iranian and Asian tourists.
I love you Kurdistan💚❤️💛🦁💪🏽✌🏼🍀🫶🏼🍀🫶🏼💚❤️💛💪🏽✌🏼🇺🇸🇬🇫🇬🇫🇬🇫
I've been to Philly and Phenix and I'm from KURDISTAN 😊!
Rawandiz is a city in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq, located in the Erbil Governorate, it is located 10 km to the east from Bekhal Waterfall. The district is 123 km from Erbil
I wish I had more time to explore it!
welcome to Iraq
Kurdistan i love you more and more Kurdistan is very very very beautiful and very nice
Very true
Wir haben amerikan, nur alles Soldat bei uns gesehen. Ich denke das wegen die Leute so freundlich sind zu dir.😊
Yes we come go tothere if any many much money.
喜欢你的视频。 谢谢
I love Kurdistan
Same here!
Good on ya Man 💪💪
I live in Erbil and happy to say that you've visited most places that I like. I hope you enjoyed the food. However next time, try to clean the bread from the carbon that sometimes sticks to it. I always do.
Beautifull
gooday vnice kurdistan and vnice kebab and some foodhere wowww niceee ur tour from here...🤭🤗😇
Iraq ❣😍
You can actually go to the mosques for learning! And you can take pics and talk ofc but if you have nothin to go inside except photography it’s much more respectful not to go even tho you are welcomed❤
This is a good video, thanks Drew. Do you have more travels planned around the middle east?
Thank you! I hope in the near future!
KURDISTAN ✌️💋💋💋
U r welcome bro but u spent the whole vlog in one place there is alot more to see
i was surprised because i was in the video haha
Kurdistan ❤🎉😊
Nice work
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Recommend everyone to visit Kurdistan atleast once, there are very few places left in the world that show this kind of hospitality and kindnesses towards forginers and tourists nowadays. No one will try to force you in their shops or sell on to you stuff, in opposite as soon as they know you arent from there they will instead give you free stuff 😂Probably why other countries stole our lands that easily, just joking 😂 😂
Spot on!
Thank you for visit Kurdistan ❤️☀️💚
That's hawler I live in this city so can u come back again to kurditan
Welcome to Kurdistan my friend ❤️🇹🇯
nice am in iraq
Kurdistan is like future Hollywood
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Very interesting, just one thing is it safe for traveling, probably not 100 %, may be one day we can visit too....
I would say it was one of the safer places I've ever been. Probably not 100% but I never felt uncomfortable
Bji KURDISTANN
What was the name of the park with the lake, and the name of the big mosque? I never saw those when I was there in February. When were you in Erbil, Drew?
the park is sami abulrahman park . and mosque name jalil khayat in 60 street
@@winner3733 thanks
@@MarksWorldOfAdventure have a good time mate . take care . and welcome to my homeland
If anyone is interested in travelling to Akre and needs any help with touring the entire city or mountain plains, message and tell me the dates of your availability.
Wicked people 90%
Good one Bro,Are you going to suLaYmAnY?
Did you bring cash or was it possible to find a ATM that accepted your card?
I brought cash. Very few atms
Is sad to see how American don’t like iraq people at all 😢
İts not iraqi kurdistan its just KURDİSTAN ❤️🌞💚
kurdistan is Iraq💞
@@Iraq-e2f in your dream 💋
Welcome to Kurdistan ❤️✌️💚
Hello I love your video I want to go Kurdistan but I don't know how to do . How much money do I need? How can I change Mexican pesos by kurdistan money. Can you tell me? And do I need visa? Or just passport? And what Airline go to Kurdistan? Are there people who speak English or Spanish at the airport so that help me?
Thank you! I would say you could do it for about $50 per day. Make sure to bring cash and they have exchange stations all over in the city. You can purchase a visa on arrival for $70. Very few people speak English but I had no trouble getting by.
Could you pay for the visa by card or only cash? I’m going there in a week
Only cash I believe. I would recommend bringing at least $300-500USD in cash to get you through several days because almost no places take card.
بە خێربێیت بۆ کوردستان ، هیوادارم چێژت لە گەشتەکەت بینی بێت❤❤❤❤❤❤😘😘😘😊
It is called hewler not erbil
Love Kurdistan freedom independence ❤️✌️
How much did you pay for the visa on arrival? Do they accept other currencies as well or card?
It was $70 and yes they accepted USD
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Her biji Kurdistan
No mate Turkey scored of kurdistan and kurdish people that’s why they’re asking
#FEEKURDİSTAN💚♥️💛
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Americans finds out that people could live safely and normally in Iraq like any other country:
DAROOD MUHAMMAD O ALAY MUHAMMAD I LOVE IRAQ ITS PEOPLE ITS FOOD GOD BLESS IRAQ LABAIK YA MOULA ALI LABAIK YA MOULA HUSSAIN LABAIK YA MOULA ABBAS ABUTURAB SHAH FROM AMERICA ERBIL IS BEAUTIFUL UNITED IRAQ IS GOOD DONT MAKEKURDISTAN A SEPERATE COUNTRY
Astagfirullah!
Iiyaka naqbudu wa iiyaka nastaqeen! Only call upon Allah, nobody else.
I love kebab
No ırak kirdistan
welcome to my homeland we are totaly deferent with arabs . i hope you enjoed we dont have scammers never dont wory about this . respect from uk .