Tourism on a commercially significant scale has a short history in Hawraman and its villages. Adventurous travellers exploring the re- gion once visited the villages and have been followed in the last two decades by more conventional domestic tourists looking for new experiences and escape from modernised urban environments. Hawraman Takht is regarded as an excellent example of Kurdish tra- ditions and heritage, demonstrated by the wedding ceremony of Pir- e-Shaliar which entices hundreds of observers every year in February and April and can be seen in