Kurdistan

Backgammon while paragliding? Only in Kurdistan

By 6/8/2017

By Ahmad Sangawi

In a bid to promote tourism in the Kurdistan Region, two brothers are taking a unique approach to an already unique activity.

Several thousand meters above the ground they filmed themselves playing backgammon while paragliding.

While table games may not be for everyone, the brothers hope to encourage others to take up paragliding.

Sulaimani, nestled in the mountains, provides amazing views while in the controlled fall.

They say the weather in the skies of the Kurdistan Region are preferable to those in Oludeniz, Turkey.

Comments

1 Baran | 6/8/2017

So they not just did it for fun but to promote tourism in Kurdistan. Mashallah good work. Why politicians are not so eager for their country?

Report

0 Salih | 7/8/2017

Looks good

Report

Tags : tourism, paragliding, backgammon, Sulaimani

+ add to watchlist

4541 Views

Be Part of Your Rudaw!

Share your stories, photos and videos with Rudaw, and quite possibly the world.

Stories

Pictures

Videos

What You Say

Amed | 10/7/2018 10:26:05 AM

Once the PKK is eliminated the Kurds in the region will prosper with new trade with Turkey. PKK is a huge problem for the Kurds, they're preventing...

Report

Bradost | 10/19/2018 8:49:43 AM

I wonder why they chose Mergasor, Kani Rash in Bradost region would have made more sense!

Report

| 5/10/2018 | (5)

Locals expect economic boost from new Kurdistan-Turkey link

love Peshmerga, AK USA | 10/19/2018 1:16:18 AM

PUK always denies on every thing they do and what they say just like they denied giving kirkuk to Iraq regime also making thire frinds happy in Iran....

Report

pete | 10/19/2018 6:39:44 AM

Both these parties are criminal organisations. They are the shame of Kurdistan. They make the Iraqi Kurds look like prehistoric fools to the...

Report

| yesterday at 10:26 | (6)

PUK tells KDP to get over it, bigger challenges lie ahead

mark bishop | 10/18/2018 9:17:30 AM

After reading Masoud Barzani's statement on October 16, I believe that we are given only half of a message. He says that the events leading up to...

Report

John Bird | 10/19/2018 3:27:59 AM

PUK is a great place for gangsters, hoodlums, mobsters, cutthroats, villains, bandits, crooks, racketeers and hooligans. But not for highly educated...

Report