Iraq Tested Me Again: Extreme Heat & Harassment
Cycling the world – Asia: 22 episode
I leave Samawah and say goodbye to the sheik before riding south towards Nasiriyah. The heat is relentless and by the afternoon I am forced to stop and hide in the shade for a few hours just to keep going. In Nasiriyah I stay with a Couchsurfing host and wait for Ahmed, an Iraqi cyclist who will ride with me towards the border with Kuwait. My host turns out to be the son of the sheik who lives next to the Ziggurat of Ur and takes me there at sunset when the site is normally closed and without paying the entrance fee. Once Ahmed arrives we leave Nasiriyah together and follow the Euphrates. We stop at a small shop for a cold coke and the owner invites us to rest, escape the heat and share lunch with him. Late at night a man in a pickup starts following and harassing us all the way to the next town. We end up at a police station where the captain offers to lock him up if I file a formal complaint. Tired and already delayed I refuse and we push on into the countryside along the river, where a local man stops us and invites us to stay the night at his home.
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Love your sense of humour in such harsh conditions!
Wish you strength and safety on the rest of your journey.
thank you
In the beginning a decision was made, have mankind love themselves. You don't lead nor follow. But of course, believing in a God won.
Davide the human harrasment magnet! Holy shit how are you managin that!? I would have bailed ages ago.
Não está sendo bom para vc. 🇧🇷👍🏻👍🏻
almeno de magnare se magna! 😁 cioè se non ti ospitano ti aggrediscono…
The world needs to know that at 67 mine is also virgin despite many bikepacking trips in Middle-Eastern countries. Maybe I just got lucky or else give off a discouraging vibe.
Un paese senza figa… non si vive di solo zigurat 😁
Nice
Seems like they want you to stay with them, maybe not out of hospitality so much as, protection? I wonder what that Toyota truck guys' problem was? If he was gonna rob you, I don't think he would have been talking to that cop? Was he that star struck? His hand gestures say, "love" or "enamored" seems like? Was he just another pervert? Crazy.
Cosa voleva sto fenomeno sul finale l’hai compreso? 😂 ma poi quel gesto con la mano chiusa lo usano con quale significato? Ci vuole un buon autocontrollo, il tuo viaggio in Iraq è clamoroso 😂❤
Vattene subito da questo maledetto paese, amico mio.
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