Tourism is finally coming back to Iraq according to today’s Times: ‘Just about everyone in the eight-person group has been to Afghanistan. (Also, perhaps unsurprisingly, everyone is single.) Insurance, which is not provided by the company, is nearly impossible to come by. For that reason, the tourists on these trips tend to be older because they have financial support networks and, Mr. Hann said, “because in the end you’ve been to places and you don’t really worry as much, if you know what I mean.”’ Hinterland Travel is where you can book your trips to Afghanistan, Kurdistan and also Burma. The owner of Hinterland Travel co-wrote a travel guide about Iraq, which was published in the spring of 2008.
I’m very much interested in this trip offered by Hinterland Travel: “October 17th 2009: The Retreat (A New Trek) - following the route of the British retreat from Kabul in 1842.”