http://www.travelblog.org/Middle-East/Iran/North/ Travel adventures in journals and photos from Middle East , Iran , North en-us Thu, 07 Jan 2010 02:12:04 +0000 Thu, 07 Jan 2010 02:12:04 +0000 Getting into Iran was long and not easy.We took off from Hong Kong to Mumbai and again to Dubai on a bumpy classic 777 of Cathay Pacific plane where the turbulence made me to wait nearly 2 hours for just a cup of tea. Waiting in Dubai was another time of night mare all the security staffs were South Indian or Bengali workers and no one knew what they were actually doing the screening check syst http://www.travelblog.org/Middle-East/Iran/North/Tehran/blog-462793.html Hicran Cigdem Yorgancioglu Iran Tehran 2009coming soon Hal305n305n gobe287inde ilmegim Ozan Firdevsi 'nin gazelindeyim Hicapli kadim medweniyetin Kadinsal emelindeyim Deyin ki Acem ilindeyim Yad elindeyim E351arp yar305ya inmi351 uzaya kad305n gnderiyorsaBir sebebi var Hicran Cigdem Yorgancioglu Iran Tehran 2009Ortado287uya ynelip drt mevsimi ya351ayan En eski i med http://www.travelblog.org/Middle-East/Iran/North/Tehran/blog-450480.html In the Islamic tradition guests are considered a gift from God and must be treated accordingly. This might sound like yet another religionbased principle that sounds good on paper but in the country of Iran belief in this regard is put into practice. In the two weeks that I spent traveling across the nation I was faced with daily examples of warmth and generosity to a degree that I have neve http://www.travelblog.org/Middle-East/blog-450156.html Sitting at Imam Khomeini airport the only thing I can think about is how the environment of the ancient Silk Road changed over the millennium. I have traveled from the beginning of the Road in China to its midway in Middle East each border crossing requiring extensive visa application process and each country requiring a local guide to translate lunch orders. It was not like this 2000 years http://www.travelblog.org/Middle-East/Iran/North/Tehran/blog-447870.html Ever experienced an extremely cold night before Well wouldn't you know.. I had that experience when I was in Zanjan in the northern part of Iran. When I say cold I mean cold. Like freezing cold. Like the moment you spill water on the road it instantly freezes. No I am not kidding. It was about 13 deg C in Zanjan that night and apparently the next morning I found out that it was the colde http://www.travelblog.org/Middle-East/Iran/North/Zanjan/blog-444863.html Rukav na letisti Imama Chomejniho usti do letadla ruskeho Aeroflotu. Uz jen par metru krok na schudek a strhavam z hlavy satek. Ne ze by mi snad neslusel ale je znakem nesvobody a nesmyslnych zakonu iranske vlady. Hazim hlavou ze strany na stranu splihle dlouhe vlasy vlaji rannim rozespalym letadlem uzivam si ten pocit. Myslim na Formana a jeho Hair i tam jsou vlasy symbolem svobody. Vyhrnu http://www.travelblog.org/Middle-East/Iran/North/Tehran/blog-444387.html It was an adventurous trip http://www.travelblog.org/Middle-East/Iran/North/blog-442288.html Did i tell you i threw my ticket to Istanbul in the bin Yup just like that scrunched it up and threw it in the bin. I vividly remember it as well i had just arrived in Shiraz i was sitting on my bed in the hotel going threw all the shit you seem to accumulate when traveling. Scrunch and BAM in the bin I thought i threw the empty stump of my ticket from my Tehran to Shiraz flight i just got http://www.travelblog.org/Middle-East/Iran/North/Tabriz/blog-441053.html Abyaneh village is one of the most stunning and interesting tourist attractions in Iran from various viewpoints. During you Iran travel period it will be an unforgettable experience to pay a visit to this village.Location of Abyaneh VillageAfter almost 75 km drive from Kashan toward Natanz you get to an intersection from which you turn right toward Abyaneh. At the end of this 23km deadend road http://www.travelblog.org/Middle-East/Iran/North/blog-440991.html When you are traveling in Iran make sure you visit amazing historical houses in Kashan to learn more about the traditional life in Iran. A careful visit and study of these houses reveal lots of points about how life used to go on in Iran in the past and before modernization.Traditional Life in Iran Demands Such LifestyleYou should visit Kashan at some hot season if you can tolerate the heat in http://www.travelblog.org/Middle-East/Iran/North/blog-440985.html Tehran the capital of Iran has got several interesting spots that attract cultureoriented tourists. During your Iran travel excursion make sure you include Darband foothill area at the North of the city when you visit Tehran. There are more than a dozen of restaurants both indoor and outdoor in a cool pleasant valley where a lot of life and culture can be experienced first hand.Visit Tehran Fo http://www.travelblog.org/Middle-East/Iran/North/Tehran/blog-440118.html bdquoHic sunt leones zde jsou lvi. Oznaceni neznameho neprobadaneho uzemi na nemz vladne pravdepodobne barbarie a nebo take uzemi bez zakonu a pravidelldquo.S touto myslenkou a se zapadacky politicky zmasirovanym mozkem jsme vyrazili smer Moskva a odtud pres Kaspik do Teheranu hlavniho mesta byvale Persie dnesniho Iranu. Klepal mi zadek strachy a pripadala jsem si jako kdyz jedu do val http://www.travelblog.org/Middle-East/Iran/North/blog-439902.html During your tour to Iran it will be a fascinating experience to take a trip to Alamut in order to be personally familiar with the kind of terrain and location where these people stayed in. It helps you learn and remember why assassins had chosen this site to lead their resistance movement against the foreign Seljuk invaders.A Word about AssassinsAs a subbranch of Shiite Muslims Ismailis known http://www.travelblog.org/Middle-East/Iran/North/blog-439818.html I shouldnt have left 15mins to board my plane in Dubai i thought my gate was close by. I thought wrong I couldnt even find it i searched UP and DOWN the second terminal until i found someone to ask By then it was already 7.45am and my plane was about to take off FINALLY with correct directions the gate was tucked behind another terminal The plane was waiting for me As soon as i got on it http://www.travelblog.org/Middle-East/Iran/North/Tehran/blog-438163.html Dear AllHow are you I'm really glad for being for you http://www.travelblog.org/Middle-East/Iran/North/Zanjan/blog-429190.html Kandovan A truly spectacular amazing village that when it was time to leave I found it hard to pull myself away from that place. I was lucky enough to be able to be presented with the glorious opportunity of discovering this tiny village in the outskirts of Tabriz. Initially I had my doubts of going to a village. This was because I was used to seeing houses made of wood and thought Kandovan http://www.travelblog.org/Middle-East/Iran/North/Kandovan-/blog-420880.html Iran Tabriz Zanjan Tehran Esfahan TehranIf someone turned around to me and said wear your pjrsquos down Oxford Street I would say ldquodonrsquot be daft Irsquod attract attention and look sillyrdquo. Well that was exactly the expression we were getting from the locals throughout Iran. Little did we know that eventhough in public they wear black as their religious wear in the bedr http://www.travelblog.org/Middle-East/Iran/North/Tehran/blog-412786.html This is just a quick in between blog because I know some of you have been in touch with Helen about the news coming out of Tehran at the moment. this is just really to say that we're sitting in a beautiful air conditioned hotel in the middle of Tehran and we have not seen any of the riots. Everybody we have met is very friendly and happy to have us here. We have been to visit a very ornate http://www.travelblog.org/Middle-East/Iran/North/Tehran/blog-409024.html About Us DiscoverPersia.com Doing Business As Ace Vacations ltd. Sogol Tehran Tours Travel a leading vendor of discounted leisure travel products tofrome Iran and Middles East offering consumers affordable onestop shopping for all of their travel needs. The company offers consumers one of the largest collections of discounted airfares more than one million unpublished fares offered on http://www.travelblog.org/Middle-East/Iran/North/Tehran/blog-405653.html The royal jewels of the Pahlavi and Qajar dynasties are held in The Treasury of National Jewels in Tehran. It is highly secured and no photography is permitted but purchased and public domain photos are included here in order to share a rare view of these breathtaking pieces.The videoadd feature refused to upload a montage I created of the jewels and crowns through their history of being worn http://www.travelblog.org/Middle-East/Iran/North/Tehran/blog-403000.html