The Itinerary Iraq itineraries
Day-by-day routes through Iraq, each 8 days — with what every trip actually costs.
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Planning a trip to Iraq
Pulled from the route below — so it says what it does, not what a brochure would.
When to go
Oct–Apr — the months this route recommends.
How long you need
Every route here runs 8 days.
What it costs
≈ AED 700 per person per day. Beds, food, getting around and things to do — costed line by line in each guide, not estimated from a daily rate.
Entry on an Indian passport
e-Visa online before you go, 30 days. Checked 2026-11 against Wikipedia’s compilation of IATA Timatic entries. Entry rules depend on your passport and where you live, and they change with little notice — confirm with the embassy or your airline before you book. Check another country.
Where these routes go: Erbil · Lalish · Sulaymaniyah · Baghdad · Babylon.
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Best for: Where cities were invented — and the one region where visiting is now ordinary
Iraq in 8 days: Erbil's citadel, Babylon and the marshes of the south
Erbil → Lalish → Sulaymaniyah → Baghdad → Babylon → the Marshes
Six thousand years of continuous settlement on one mound, the walls Nebuchadnezzar built, and wetlands where people still live on floating reed islands — across a country where the north and the south carry very different warnings.
Going somewhere near Iraq?
Asia has plenty to choose from, or tell us the dates and we'll shape a plan around them.