Ticket and Visit Hatra (Iraq)

 Visit the UNESCO site of Hatra in Iraq look like an adventure. I was there in 2023 (July), to visit Hatra first you have to stop in Mosul because is there the ticket office.

Google map location Hatra ticket office in Mosul.

Google map location of Hatra ticket office in Mosul

Due to change policy is not anymore allowed to visit Hatra UNESCO site by your own (neither with a taxi driver) but only with an official tour guide. At that time I was the first one follow this policy so I had to get a tour guide and let him provide a special permit from his tour agency.

Ticket office in Mosul

The ticket price is 25,000 IQR and I finally got the second day I went there, just be careful as the guy who sell tickets want to sell his tour guide service (I'm quite confusing if was really allowed do that).

I can also recommend a basic hotel in Mosul near by the ticket office, was around 20,000 IQR and they speaks little English Ninavah Palace hotel.

Arrived in Hatra at the ticket office they told me I was the only foreigner visiting this month, maybe because was July (around 42c but dry, is like a same temperature in south Spain in summer) or maybe because the new policy, anyway the welcome was a tank (a bit weird welcome in for a tourist site).

After many police check points finally we can enter and visiting this amazing UNESCO site, I was the only one there, Hatra was reserved only for me such a lucky day.