IRAN | Monday, 19 Aug 2013 | Photo Gallery
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IRAN | Saturday, 17 Aug 2013 | Views [289] | Comments [1]
Today is our last day and I do not expect to add to my journal. We leave for Tehran this evening and our flight to Istanbul and then onto Gatwick
IRAN | Saturday, 17 Aug 2013 | Views [371]
Today we just drifted around Esfahan, seeing the sights and doing some shopping.
Here are a few of the things you notice in the Iranian towns and cities we have visited -
The roads are amongst the scariest. Everyone focusses only on the next 10 ... Read more >
IRAN | Saturday, 17 Aug 2013 | Views [369]
Aida is a 10 year old girl who lives in central Esfahan. She lives with her mum and dad, and spends a great deal of time with a man in his 20's called Mr Sali.
Aida, her Dad and Mr Sali seem to spend most evenings in Naqsh-e Jahan square, looking ... Read more >
IRAN | Saturday, 17 Aug 2013 | Views [610]
This was a long hot day in the Peugeot, taking the back roads through the Zagros to Esfahan. We stopped for food in Yasuj and In Sisackt. We also stopped at a waterfall 10k outside Sisackt and filled up the camel packs with the fresh mountain water. ... Read more >
IRAN | Thursday, 15 Aug 2013 | Views [369] | Comments [1]
We'd been told that there were 1 or 2 local Shirazi guides with family ties to a nomadic tribe west of Shiraz. These guides could get you up into the mountains, find the tribe and fix it for you to stay with them. We managed to track one down and ... Read more >
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IRAN | Monday, 12 Aug 2013 | Views [375] | Comments [2]
We took a bus out to Persepolis and some other nearby places today. These are all UNESCO sites where the names of Darius, Xerxes, Cyrus and Alexander are all writ large in the very fertile landscape of the Fars Province. Cyrus The Great's tomb at Pasargadae ... Read more >
IRAN | Sunday, 11 Aug 2013 | Views [316]
This former capital city below the Zagros mountains in south central Iran, is where the Shiraz / Syrah grape began life, although no wine has been produced here in a long time for obvious reasons. It teems with bazaars that, like Istanbul, contain little ... Read more >
IRAN | Saturday, 10 Aug 2013 | Views [281]
Please post some comments. I have 150+ views but no idea who's reading this.
I'm working on getting some photos and video uploaded, but Iran blocks a lot of things, eg the required software
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IRAN | Saturday, 10 Aug 2013 | Views [332]
Nothing to report, just 6+ hours on a bus, nodding like Churchill. Just arrived at Niayesh Hotel in the old town. Quadruple room and ensuite inexplicably...
IRAN | Saturday, 10 Aug 2013 | Views [414] | Comments [1]
and when you arrive they ask what country you are from. We said the UK. A moment later they bring us over a Union Jack on a metal pole with a marble base. I look around and only see Iranian flags on tables. This feels like a Summit where everyone else ... Read more >
IRAN | Friday, 9 Aug 2013 | Views [276] | Comments [2]
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IRAN | Friday, 9 Aug 2013 | Views [1540]
Late Thursday afternoon, Rich and I were picked up by a guide and driver we'd booked and taken out into the Dasht-e-lut desert outside Yazd, which extends almost to the Afghanistan border some 300 miles away to the east. We drove south about 60k along ... Read more >
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IRAN | Thursday, 8 Aug 2013 | Views [267]
spent the evening in the courtyard of a nearby hotel smoking orange hookah and drinking tea
IRAN | Wednesday, 7 Aug 2013 | Views [309]
Breakfast is lavish as long as you like cucumber, tomatoes and dates, dried by the morning sun.... so I stayed pretty hungry until lunchtime. Yazd is said to be one of the oldest cities on earth, with maze-like expanses of compacted mud and straw single ... Read more >
IRAN | Tuesday, 6 Aug 2013 | Views [255]
it is hot...mid 40's and my searing wit is starting to ebb a little. The very dusty hotel laptop keyboard has a few keys that need to be hit alot before they work and the "b" shows 5 additional characters whenever it's struck, so typing is not as quick ... Read more >
IRAN | Tuesday, 6 Aug 2013 | Views [350]
I changed $100 USD at Tehran airport and got 26,000,000 Iranian Rials back, which would be helpful for all my small change needs.
[2137] The journey by train from the Tehran terminal to Yazd is about 225 miles and takes anywhere ... Read more >
TURKEY | Tuesday, 6 Aug 2013 | Views [386]
We took the opportunity to have our last beer for a few weeks at the airport and then rolled up as the token westerners at gate 302 for the Atlas Jets flight to Tehran. This being a night flight, we'd presumed there'd be no refreshments, ... Read more >
TURKEY | Monday, 5 Aug 2013 | Views [365]
(Istanbul 1250) So after 2 weeks of attempts back in the UK to get the Iranian Embassy in Frankfurt to issue our visas, which ended in failure on Thursday, we arrived in Istanbul last night with our hopes resting on the Iranian embassy in the Turkish ... Read more >
UNITED KINGDOM | Thursday, 25 Jul 2013 | Views [220]
