This summer my wife and I traveled to Soran, in Iraqi Kurdistan to visit my brother who was living there helping with refugee resettlement.
We flew into Erbil around 10:30 PM and took a 2 hour taxi trip up the mountains to where we would be staying for the next few weeks. Our first full day there we had an all day Kurdish picnic. My next post will be detailing the picnic and the traditions surrounding it.
All of these pictures were taken a short hike from our picnic spot.
Here's a panorama of the major mountains.
It's pretty common to see sheep or goat herds crossing roads in Kurdistan.
We were getting there just at the beginning of the dry/hot season. Apparently things are quite a bit more lush in the spring.