ERBIL | IRAQ

the telepherique is very cool! Iraq needs more of these!

Arbil is looking great! love it!

kurd123 said:

Yeah the longer runway is, the smaller one next to it is the older one.

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what will the old runway be used for? military? but that new runway is MASSIVE!

persi. I think that's sulaymania.

very very nice. amazing what a few years development does.

diako_ber said:

Not only for that, also for: not having your seatbelt on, using your mobile phone, parking somewhere where it is not allowed, ignoring traffic lights, and so on.

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its the same in the rest of Iraq (officially). But only in Baghdad do they really enforce it.

fine depends really. 30-50k dinars. you can try to bribe the policeman but he may drag you into prison if you do.

hi sirwan.

there's already a photo thread for erbil here. http://www.skyscrapercity.com/showthread.php?t=1271529

that is sami abdul rahman park in central erbil

Sinjar said:

Nah the Central Erbil is the the citadel and the area around it..

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to be pedantic... yes that's the "old" centre. but 60 meter street is a "new" centre... and its only a few hundred meters away!

that building (i think its supposed to be a new hotel) on the junction between 60m street and ainkawa rd is not too bad in the flesh... one of the better modern buildings in erbil... there is a lot of aluminium cladded tackiness in erbil too! lol.

i like the design of ishik uni.

good to see areas outside the "rotana hotel" triangle...