Our next trip was a boat ride through the Tigris&Euphrates Rivers. On the day of this trip, we traveled to southeastern Turkey.
When we arrived at the boat dock, we saw on a map that many of it's tributaries are the Zab Rivers downstream from Mosul. We traveled downstream for many miles, as our boatleader told us stories about ancient Eastern Asia. Then, we finally came to a passage in Southern Iraq, where we found that the Tigris&Euphrates rivers came together. There, they form The Shat Al Arab, which later after having traveled 1740 miles, empties into the Persian Gulf.
On our way back to the camp, we visited the Euphrates Dam, which was created in 1973! We learned that it is an essential to the people of Middle Eastern Asia, as it is one of the main sources of water in a dry region.
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