Riding in Iraq Kurdistan, traveling on a motorbike around the world.
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EPISODE 4
In this riding video of motorcycle adventure travel around the world we just arrive at the Turkish border with Iraq and cross it in the evening near the city of Zakho. During the Iraqi customs process I get warm welcomes from all directions and a British Kurd invites me to his house in Duhok for the night.
The ride starts in northern Iraq and progresses south east in Iraqi Kurdistan. An Iraq adventure motorcycle tour! Starting out in Zakho and going through cities like Duhok, passing Mosul, Akre, Erbil, Sulaimani (Sulaymanihah), Halabjah, Dokan and Amedi. Over and along desert regions where the road to the Iraqi capital is luring and the mountainous border with Iran. At one point I am only 150km from Baghdad and I'm tempted but reports have been conflicting. I'll stand out like a sore thump. Did not go and it ended up being a wise choice. A few days later while drinking with two guys from Baghdad they showed me a recent video of ISIS death squads shooting up innocent people on the highways. This was before ISIS was international headlines. Though soon they would be and I left the country a few days later. Two weeks later ISIS captured Mosul. There is immense beauty in Iraq and one day I would like to do a trip around the whole country. Enjoy this short adventure motorcycle documentary of Iraq. Put together with the bits that I recorded back in 2014.
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My name is Pedro Mota and back in 2014 I left the Netherlands on a beautiful Honda Transalp XL600v dualsport motorbike on a trip to the east end of Russia in Vladivostok. On the way there I would take a big detour through the Middle East, Central Asia and Mongolia. Little did I know back then that this would evolve into a years long motorcycle travel further taking me through Japan, Australia, New Zealand and the American continent.