For the first time.. Hiking sport sees the light in Iraq

Baghdad-INA 

The Haykink Al-Tayeb program was held to show the features of the border island of Al-Tayeb in Maysan Governorate.

Hazem Al-Muhammadawi, the organizer of the festival, told the Iraqi News Agency (INA): The festival included the participation of a group of Maysan youth and Baghdad youth, in addition to some honorable Iraqi families, in cooperation with the Maysan Youth and Sports Directorate and the Maysan Operations Command.

Al-Muhammadawi added, "This sport, which came in support of the great security efforts made by the Maysan Operations Command, by climbing some border hills of Al-Tayeb Island, while being in fresh water lakes, according to a special program prepared by those in charge of it some time ago.".