Samarra Spiral Minaret🇮🇶ملوية سامراء

Описание: traveling to Samarra, iraq?
in this video you will find everything related the 1200 years old Samarra Spiral Minaret and other Samarra sites:
1. how to make a day trip from Baghdad to Samarra with public transportation
2. Samarra checkpoints, and how to deal with them.
3. Spiral Minaret entrance fee, and climbing to the top!
4. Visiting Askari Shrine.
5. Visiting the pond palace
6. are you allowed to roam around samarra city?
7. background stories and history of all above (i love history hahha).


extra information:
1. Entrance fee for askari shrine and the pond palace is for free.
2. if you travel by public transportation, foreigners should leave later with the same driver. Samarra main checkpoint might give you a free security escort so dont worry.

Locations:
google coordinates

entrance to the spiral minaret (almalwiya)
https://goo.gl/maps/C3TXTTwUbkRZ3pS86

askari shrine pedestrian road enterance
https://goo.gl/maps/FbpNy6yvT9FvCNvz9

Askari shrine
https://goo.gl/maps/QbLzf75itnzXLujq7

the Pond Palace (qasr albirkah) Road entrance
https://goo.gl/maps/WfamrsHFuPFJkWzP8

the Pond Palace (qasr albirkah) MAIN entrance
https://goo.gl/maps/d6Fnb4w451axhYGf9

Alaalawi garage shared taxi (Baghdad):
https://goo.gl/maps/JdcDobBeqCSgFA288