Visibility for overlooked places
The famous waterfalls do not need our help. The quiet valleys, forest trails and villages a few roads further out do, so they get the same page, the same map pin and the same photographs as anywhere else.
Rooted in Kurdistan. Open to discovery.
Wander mountain paths, find a quiet place by the water, and discover the Kurdistan that stays with you.
A free field guide.
A deeper connection to place.
One route, three real stops
From the Halgurd summit to hidden gorges, lakes and caves, every chapter below is a place you can actually stand in, photograph, and add to your record.
Places on the route
Nature KRD only unlocks a place when your GPS matches it on site and you submit a photo. Here's a taste of what's waiting.
Halgurd Mountain
3,607m summit
Shanidar Cave
Neanderthal site
Lake Felaw
Alpine lake
Rawanduz Gorge
Gorge
Gali Ali Bag Waterfall
Waterfall
Bekhal Waterfall
Cascade
Korek Mountain
Mountain
Dukan Lake
Lake
Gara Mountain
Snow
Barzan Valley
Valley
Amedi Cliffs
Cliffs
Your journey, alive
Reach a place, confirm your GPS and submit a photo to add it to your record. Places you have not reached yet stay in view, so you can always see what is next.
6/6 verified by explorers
Field guide
A curated start for weekend routes, family stops, and serious nature days.
Erbil
Sulaymaniyah
Shekhan, Duhok
Amedi, Duhok
Amedi, Duhok
Choman, Erbil
Verified by place
The check-in flow is intentionally simple for mountain roads and weak signal: open the destination, confirm GPS, share one photo, and continue your day.
Browse by category, difficulty and governorate before you leave.
Nature KRD checks your GPS at the destination and requires a photo.
Upload one photo to complete the visit and help future explorers.
Your verified visits, badges and leaderboard position update as you explore.
GOOD PLACES. BETTER COMPANY.
Waterfall mornings. A slow afternoon above the canyon. Bring your favourite people and turn a few saved places into a journey together.
Choose the places you want to see and arrange them day by day.
Invite friends, share the route and take the plan into your favourite app.
Check in along the way and keep a record of the places you reached.
Tap a place. Find your next escape.
About Nature KRD
Nature KRD is a free field guide to the natural places of the Kurdistan Region. Open the destination, confirm your GPS and submit a photo to add the place to your record: mountains, caves, lakes and waterfalls you have genuinely stood in.
Closer to the living world.
Our purpose
The Kurdistan Region is a landscape of oak forest, limestone gorges, snow-fed rivers and villages older than any map of them. Nature KRD began from a simple observation: these places are loved but lightly documented, and the people who know them best are the ones who walk them. So we built a guide that only records a place once someone has genuinely stood in it.
That one rule does three things at once. It gives quiet valleys, forest trails and border villages the visibility they have never had. It turns the condition of a place into something visitors report rather than walk past, so litter and damage are seen early and cleared. And it points real footfall toward the guides, tea houses and family kitchens that have looked after these landscapes for generations.
The famous waterfalls do not need our help. The quiet valleys, forest trails and villages a few roads further out do, so they get the same page, the same map pin and the same photographs as anywhere else.
Turn a phone into a reason to go outside, with real routes, honest difficulty ratings and seasons that tell you when to walk them.
Every entry carries the practical care a place needs, so visitors arrive already knowing how to leave it as they found it.
Cleanup reports and condition updates from walkers build a living record of what each place needs, and what has already been repaired.
Send visitors through the villages, guides and tea houses that already look after these valleys, rather than around them.
Village honey, walnuts, pomegranate molasses, dairy and handwoven work are part of the journey, not a roadside stall on the way home. The aim is for a day out to pay the household that made them.
Live from the community
Your field record starts here
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