Esfahan: Days Twenty Four to Five

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October 7th 2008

Esfahan fully deserve it's title The Diamond of Iran. Our hotel was right across the (very congested and dangerous looking) road from the Allah Verdi Khan Bridge, which is absolutely gorgeous, especially when it's lit up at night.

There are also a lot of beautiful historic landmarks we failed to find on the first night (look, I wasn't navigating okay) and a lot more that we passed, including lovely parks, a really ornate old university building and somewhere that may or maybe not have been Iman Hossein Square.



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