How to Navigate Conflict Zones Responsibly

This eBook will inform you of everything you need to be confident and navigate a very misunderstood amazing place.

This guide is for you if you’re looking to:

• Bust the myths about traveling to Kurdistan, an amazing beautiful place.

• Find practical advice on visas, what currency and denominations to bring, culture and places of interest.

• Discover a hospitable, kind and welcoming people, and save a great deal of your money

• Stay informed, with an Australian who volunteers and lives here who has been coming to the Middle East since 1979.

• Proceeds go towards supporting widows, orphans and those in distress who receive nothing from anyone.

What's inside

• Before you read any further: what this guide is, and what it isn't

• 1. Foundations of responsible travel: checking advisories properly, insurance, check-ins with home, the ethics of photographing people, and what to pack

• 2. The Kurdistan Region: why the US and UK advisories disagree, e-visas, where to go (Erbil, Duhok, Amedi, Sulaymaniyah, Lalish), checkpoints, fixers, sites of memory, money and bargaining

• 3. Jordan: Amman as a base, where the caution really applies, refugee-camp areas, money and bargaining

• 4. Egypt: the resort coast, the Nile Valley, the Sinai's two faces, and visiting Bedouin communities

• 5. Universal field skills: handling checkpoints, first-aid awareness, digital security at borders, and how risks differ for solo, women and LGBTQ+ travellers

Also included: a printable One-Page Checklist, a glossary, and further resources.