Dream City

So I was in the Dream City in Dohuk. Wisam, a young Yezidi who works in the hotel I stayed brought me here. Hmmm…a dream city in Iraq, pretty ironic, huh? No! It’s not! It’s all because of my naivety and ignorance.

‘Don’t make a big fuss, you of little knowledge.’ I told myself.

Dream City is actually an amusement park and the Dream City in Dohuk is by far the newest and most popular in Iraq where it also draws lots of people from the South especially Baghdad.

Ok! Ok! I admitted that I will never believe there are wheel Ferris, roller coaster, water park, dodgem, etc in Iraq until I see them with my own eyes.

Dream City of Duhok

What else are missing?

So, I believe now.

While tonnes of food and products are imported from the neighboring relatively flourished countries such as Turkey, Syria and Iran as well as China, the country seems getting on its feet. In fact, there is a saying that the Iraqi Kurdistan is far well-organized, managed and developed than the rest region of Iraq. You can even see street cleaners in uniform cleaning the street and traffic polices giving penalty to those who don’t abide the traffic law.

While it is still too early to comment, let alone to judge, I can’t bury my thought as I think I see their future rising on the horizon, slowly yet vividly.

Well, what I can say. This is traveling, to see the world and learn the world by your own self, not through a picture box or a monotonous screen.