Highlights of our two week travel in Iran. Cities we visited: Tehran, Kashan, Esfahan, Varzaneh, Yazd and Shiraz.…
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Abyaneh The remote mountain village that lies in the Esfahan province really is astonishing. While walking through the small streets you feel as if you are walking 300 years back in time. The strangest thing is that you only see elderly on the streets, trying to sell dried fruits to tourists. When asked where the young people were, we were told that most of them are in foreign countries. Since they looked quite poor, we were surprised. Our guide laughed…
Money: Rial/Toman Daybudget (25 euro pp) There are three ways of getting a visa for your entrance in Iran (with a Dutch passport): 1. Download and fill out an application form from the website of Iranian Consulate. Send or drop by all the required paperwork, including your passport, passport photo (women need to have their hair covered on it), proof of travel insurance, host or hotelbooking, your returnticket from Iran, money and other necessities to the Consulate to get your…
I will remember Yazd for several things; 1. Beautiful mosques and architecture like the Amir Chakmak complex & Masjid- e Jameh. 2. We visited a mosque where huge mourning-sessions were held because of the holy month Moharam. Men were singing, crying and slapping on their chests symbolising sorrow due the tragic events of Karbala (massacre of Imam Hosseini). Also women, devided from the men, showed their sorrow by listening to the singing men and crying along with them. 3. Yazdi…
Jawad brought us to a small village near the Varzaneh desert. He knew everyone in the village so he arranged a house whose owners had went to Esfahan for couple of days. They would get back the next day in the evening so till that time we had it for ourselves. He had also arranged lunch and dinner at the in-laws of the family. We got introduced to each other and we experienced their warm hospitality of offering us tea…
Honestly I was a bit worried about the acid-attacks which was all over the news so we informed at the reception of our hotel if it was really safe to go outside. They laughed and said we really shouldn’t be worried because most of those attacks were based on personal matters and not because of women wearing “Western” clothing which we previously thought. Besides, most of the culprits were already in jail they said. There would be no danger for…