Lounge booze in Bahrain
Lounge booze in Bahrain
Local - he beat me at chess in cafe
Dokan Lake - looking east - Iran is 35KM away
Road to Dokan from Erbil - 90 km trip.
Divert valve on dam - water level in lake is too low for electricity generation
Two lads from Iraqi national triathlon team - I stayed at there dorm in Dokan for a night
Citadel - Erbil city centre Great place to drink tea and get a shoe shine
Textile museum in Citadel Erbil. Mostly rugs post war. They have a shop too. Very cheap - about half best prices I ever managed to get in Istanbul
Money changer and sim cards - $7 us
Soldier (well boy scout with AK?) in Erbil
Money!
The result of Saddam's 'restoration'
The dam was hit by four bombs in 1991. Eye witnesses report two spotter planes shining laser like lights at targets before impacts. Damage was minor and seems only the transformers and ancilliaries were targetted. The collapse of the dam would put Baghdad under 4M of water according to the Resident engineer at the time.
These are the snaps off my I phone - I'll post the camera pics when I can get hold of a bloody cable......
Had a fanatastic holiday. An amazing country - I felt safer than in Thailand.
Palace Hotel Suleymaniya - $100 / night inc breakfast. Right next to old town
early evening in Suleymaniya old town
overflow at Dokan Lake
One of the five turbines inside Dokan Dam - Soviet makers plate. They still work but controls are being replaced with new Italian modules
The control room inside dam
Dam seen from downstream. Note camouflage paint on turbine hall at base
Local law enforcement in the village
Sign post cycling out of town - to Halabja. As many as 5,000 people were gassed to death on March 16, 1988. I played pool and smoked hookah pipes with three lads whose dad had died 10 years ago from its after effects. They insisted on paying for my tea and the smoke.
Map of Iraq's national grid in turbine hall of dam
Guard house - three guards sprang out clutching AK47s soon after I snapped this. They were a bit jumpy but a smile and thumbs up and they calmed down. They refused to pose for photos. Note peshmerga graffiti on wall.
Breakfast. $4us including tea. I left a dollar tip - they'd refused payment for my dinner the night before.
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