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City in Kurdistan Region, Iraq
Photo: Sarchia Khursheed, CC BY-SA 4.0 via Wikimedia Commons
Rawanduz or Rawandiz is a city in Northern Iraq. Rawanduz is multicultural hub of trade tucked away between tall mountains and deep river gorges.
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Dry and dusty canyon in summer, lush and green from spring to autumn. An incredible sight year round! To get into one sector of the gorge (not the one marked in the map here), walk down from the town centre in the direction of Kawlukan (same direction as Soran). After the last switchback and before the bridge, there is a statue (or rather a bust) to the left. Behind it you can enter the gorge, and walk 5,5km to Bekhal Waterfall (however, there's not a footpath all the way and at times, it's right next to a high cliff).
Spectacular spring and waterfalls. Very popular with Iraqi tourists, who love to stand, sit or smoke nargileh in it.
Çîyay Korek, چیای کۆڕەک
With 2127 m a prominent peak in the region, although dwarfed by the 3000 m peaks in the Erbil Governorate. It is a very popular tourist attraction year round, with a 4-km-long cable car taking tourists from Bekhal station to the top of Mount Korek. The mountain is a ski resort in winter, and among the top 10 highest rated ski resorts of Iraqi Kurdistan as of 2019.
Shared taxis (and probably also minibuses) run frequently from Soran Garage in Erbil (next to Family Mall on 100m Street) and cost about 10,000 dinars per person when full.
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