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Iraq
Najaf & Karbala
The Iraqi shrine cities, flown into Najaf and travelled by road between the shrines of Imam Ali and Imam Husayn.
BEST SEASON — YEAR ROUND, OUTSIDE HAJJ SEASON
The place
Why we keep going back.
Najaf and Karbala are eighty kilometres apart on a good road, and most groups from Dhaka base themselves in one and day-trip to the other. Arbaeen fills every bed in both cities and quadruples road times; outside that window the cities are calm and the shrines are open through the night.
Worth your time
- Shrine of Imam Ali, Najaf
- Shrine of Imam Husayn, Karbala
- Wadi al-Salaam
- Kufa mosque
