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DISTRICT 02 · البصرة القديمة

Old Basra

The historic quarter of carved wooden shanasheel balconies and narrow lanes — Basra before the oil, slowly being restored.

ONE PERFECT EVENING HERE

DUSK Wander the shanasheel lanes
GOLDEN The Basra Museum in its old palace
AFTER Back to the corniche for dinner

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