IRAQ | Over night sleeper train Baghdad to Basra

Welcome to part 5 of our adventure in Iraq.

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Luke @hukeleater

[deepblue]

by the way Luke, fact about Iraqis, they're the most approaching people to strangers you would ever meet. they like to mix up, explore and introduce to other cultures that's why they have been ranked as the most generous people in the world.

[aminhammadi]

I've lived in Baghdad my whole life and never thought about taking the train to one of the governorates! Now your video has encouraged me to take the train to Basra as it looks new, clean, and comfortable.
Going to share this video with my friends to convenience them to try the train :D

[omarsalam]

Iraqi guy : I love you
Luke : I love you 2
Also the Iraqi guy : I love you three 😂😂
That was an epic Iraqi joke

[pedrapgwilym]

One of the most amazing videos I have watched recently: normally when YouTubers arrive in Iraq they are surrounded by bodyguards with guns. You guys just turn up at Baghdad Central, buy tickets and hop on train to Basra. God Bless the Iraqi people and God Bless YouTubers who show us ordinary people meeting other ordinary people around our planet!

[cbrtdgh]

Iraq like Vietnam always appeared in the news for the wrong reasons, but every time I see it I marvel at how beautiful it looks. I hope Iraq gradually develops and can even welcome many more tourists like Vietnam.

[betterdreem]

Welcome in the cradle of Civilization Iraq♥️♥️🇮🇶🇮🇶

[فهدالعنزي-عع]

Paulie definitely worked in the marketing business because of how professionally she presented the train. Lol I almost bought myself a train 😄. My wife and I love your videos and I hope that you visit Iraq again! We would love to show you around.

[RUOKH]

So good to see that the Iraqi railway system is starting to recover and develop again. Let us pray that soon the old Taurus Express from Baghdad to Istanbul will return. Love and Peace to all Iraq; thank you for sharing this wonderful and heartwarming video with the world. 🚆

[bobbysierraVlogs]

They got amazingly infrastructures and locomotives..Iraq needs more tourists…really really good people.

[christopheroliver]

Thanks guys you brought back great memories of my time in Iraq (1977). You will be happy to know we had the same experience at the train station. After an hour of no action though we decided to try our hand at hitchhiking to Basrah. Found it easy and hitched everywhere from then on. We found the Iraqis to be the most generous and friendly people on our travels. They would pay your bus fare, restaurant bills, drivers would take us where ever we wanted to go AND always with a smile and a laugh.

[__moe]

I’ve always wanted to go Basra by train, I live in Baghdad. So cool to see you guys do this and I’m excited to watch your next marshes volg

[maisoonmona]

We used to take the train from Baghdad to Basra to visit my grandpa. This was back in the late 80’s. We left Iraq in ‘91 so this is very cool to see, thank you for sharing and safe travels!

[sarasami]

Hi,
You have a person from Basra living in the U.S watching this, post the next part!!!! Your videos in Iraq have been very enjoyable to watch.I always love watching the foreigner YouTubers videos of visits to Iraq because I missed out on growing up there because the 2003 war. I 've been to Iraq and remember quite a lot but its different from growing up there and the authentic experiences you guys always seek and the places you go to, are things I wish to try myself.
Much Love,
Good Luck.
Also, I love how comfortable Polly is there haha, shes so adorable.

[ibra]

Greetings from pakistan to our iraqi brothers❤❤❤

[istabraqrafea]

'I love you too'
' I love you three'
How funny is this🤣🤣🤣

Thanks for showing the real image of the Iraqi people as friendly and generous

[Stinkles_]

What a nice train and sleeper compartment! I recently took the Amtrak auto train from Florida to DC and loved it, but our roomette wasn’t nearly as nice or spacious as this! Not a knock on Amtrak at all, just genuinely impressed by this train.

[baghdadmylovestory]

Welcome to Iraq, happy to see more and more tourist visits Iraq.

[SomeSimpleGaming]

I love watching these videos. I try to share to people "bigots" that there is an entire world out there. Don't believe what you see in the propaganda machine the news stations. This is an amazing adventure I get to watch yall go on. I will never do this, but can experience it on youtube. Subscriber, commenter, and shared. Plus liked of course.

[adenfree]

تحية من اليمن الجنوبي لشعب العراقي الشقيق

[ibra]

Literally in every mosque of pakistan we pray for our iraqi brothers and we pray that they will get peace and stability❤️🤲🇵🇰