http://www.travelblog.org/Middle-East/Iran/East/ Travel adventures in journals and photos from Middle East , Iran , East en-us Tue, 08 Dec 09 05:44:48 +0000 Tue, 08 Dec 09 05:44:48 +0000 You will love to visit Yazd attractions as this desert town offers more than what you expect. Life in deserts contains mysterious stories and knowhow. People living in such areas are much more active than it seems at first glance. A visit to this city's highlights will convince you that without lots of efforts it would not be possible to have all those breathtaking monuments and methods to survi http://www.travelblog.org/Middle-East/Iran/East/Yazd/blog-440111.html The drive to Yazd from Shiraz was amazing The terrain that was covered was not like any i have seen before Middle Earth was flat dry and dusty. At times it was mountainous with large peaks popping out of the earth like big dried dates they eat alot of dates hereYazd is east of Iran and geographically it is the centre. The people of Yazd tell me that this is the safest city in Iran as http://www.travelblog.org/Middle-East/Iran/East/Yazd/blog-439582.html YazdA city with deep Zoroastrian roots. Initially before going to Iran I've read that majority of the Iranian's are Shiite Muslims. Little did I know that I would actually go to a city where the number of Zoroastrians would outweigh the number of Muslims. A city deep in history with much to offer. So let's begin our tour of Yazd shall weFirst up I went to the Amir Chagmagh Complex where we http://www.travelblog.org/Middle-East/Iran/East/Yazd/blog-431876.html Od rana dzis zwiedzalismy Yazd. Miasto zbudowane z materialu jak lepianka a wielkie i piekne. Rano padal deszcz i nie sposob bylo dojsc w ktorym domu mieszkaja ludzie a w ktorym nie ktory wybudowanao w zeszlym roku a ktory 300 lat temu. Nasz hotel znajduje sie w starym tradycyjnym domu z trzema wewnetrznymi dziedzincami na kazdym sadzawka a same korytarze prowadzace z jednego dziedzinca na http://www.travelblog.org/Middle-East/Iran/East/Yazd/blog-395210.html Dzis bedzie bez zdjec. Wyjechalismy z Shirazgdzie zostawilam swoja juz zaprzyjazniona dziewczynke z kawiarni internetowej ubrana od stop do glow na czarno ktora jak tylko mnie widziala oferowala kabel USB. Jak gdzie znajde kabel bedzie wiecej zdjec... Z Shiraz do Yazd jechalismy w 5 osob plus bagaz wiec troche jak sardynki lokalnie skladanym peugotem ktory moze nawet nie byl taki starutki http://www.travelblog.org/Middle-East/Iran/East/Yazd/blog-394973.html Pigeons are sitting on the gold dome of Quds Courtyard it was night and the gold dome was reflecting brightly. The one area that wasnrsquot was the top of the dome where the pigeons have shat all over it. Surely the greatest animal in the world is the pigeon No matter where you are in the world theyrsquoll shit all over itNormally I feel I canrsquot get the full scope of a country until I http://www.travelblog.org/Middle-East/Iran/East/Mashhad/blog-381845.html I needed to drain my thoughts to someone. The build up of information from 3 days in Shiraz was going to send my crazy. Enter Yazd the real western travellers hub. Nowhere else in Iran is the cities sites and hotels so congested. It also has Iranrsquos first true hostel. This place helped me put everything into perspective.Yazd like some cities in the world claims to be the lsquooldest living http://www.travelblog.org/Middle-East/Iran/East/Yazd/blog-377033.html auto auto auto auto auto auto auto auto auto auto auto auto auto auto auto auto auto auto auto auto auto auto auto auto auto auto auto auto auto auto auto auto auto auto auto auto auto auto auto auto auto auto auto auto auto auto auto auto auto auto auto auto auto auto auto auto auto auto auto auto auto auto auto auto auto auto aut http://www.travelblog.org/Middle-East/Iran/East/Yazd/blog-359705.html It's hard to leave one place after one month and I have to do it for the second time in this trip. As one of my friend wrote on his blog this is a school to learn to say goodbye traveling you must say goodbye to so many people that maybe have been very interesting to speech with and to know about their life. But you must say goodbye and maybe you'll never meet again. In that moment it's so impo http://www.travelblog.org/Middle-East/Iran/East/Yazd/blog-341278.html We arrive in Yazd early on Friday morning. Pat and Christina decide to join me in meeting up with Mansour. While waiting for him to arrive we meet a couple from Geelong who are cycling through Iran. We all find it odd that five Australians are standing at a roundabout in a town in the middle of the desert in Iran at eight o'clock in morning. Mansour and Maria arrive and the first question he asks http://www.travelblog.org/Middle-East/Iran/East/Yazd/blog-333536.html Since Tehran we have been travelling west across Iran . Everywhere we go the people are wonderful usually greeting us with 'Welcome to Iran'. I have had a man stop the traffic for me and a family invite me to their home in Northern Iran if I am in the areaAfter Tehran which was fantastic we stopped in Yadz. Yadz is one of the oldest regions in Iran and we spent the day following the walking to http://www.travelblog.org/Middle-East/Iran/East/Yazd/blog-333526.html Reza is working so he leaves me with his friend Mehrdad. Mehrdad and his taxi driver brother Mehdi come to collect me and after a sneaky lunchtime tea behind closed doors so as not to offend the masses we head to the Holy Shrine of Imam Reza. Apparently he was a pretty popular bloke because the sheer size of the Haram is unbelievable. After much confusion since alot of the site is offlimits t http://www.travelblog.org/Middle-East/Iran/East/Mashhad/blog-333461.html Yazd is a small oasis city in southern central Iran in the middle of the desert. The landscape during the journey from Esfahan did not look like it changed much in seven hours though admittedly I was not looking out of the window all the time allowing the bus to rock me to sleep.The city's water comes from underground qanats miles away in the mountains. Here the women are almost exclusively dre http://www.travelblog.org/Middle-East/Iran/East/Yazd/blog-293923.html We arrived in Yazd from Isfahan on the 6th June. The bus journey was good a nice air conditioned very punctual bus.We're staying at Kohan Kashana traditional hotel which means courtyards fountains and general lovely atmosphere all for 300000 rials a night twin room inc. breakfast en suite.I've managed to get ill by eating a camel burger on the 6th. Severe stomach cramps and all the usual http://www.travelblog.org/Middle-East/Iran/East/Yazd/blog-284933.html Well wersquore currently sitting on a carpeted platform divan sort of thing and sipping tea in the central courtyard of our hotel in Yazd. Itrsquos a beautifully restored house in the middle of the old city covered by a huge tent which diffuses the light and protects the central pond and cluster of bougainvillea banana and orange trees. If there was a setting for Persian opulence and dec http://www.travelblog.org/Middle-East/Iran/East/Yazd/blog-222789.html Hopefully these will buy me some more time to procrastinate on my Iranian blog... but seriously how do you summarize Iran in a few hundred words or lessSo.. How was IranRiiight.All photos are courtesy and property of Big Dan X. http://www.travelblog.org/Middle-East/Iran/East/Yazd/blog-221796.html Incompetent employees make us stay one more week in IranAlthough we thought that we wouldnrsquot write you anymore from Iranhellip we have to spend an unexpected additional week in very religious Mashhad It seems that everything was going too well for us till now Last Thursday we experienced our first real bad luck during this trip This day we felt that we had enjoyed our 30 days in I http://www.travelblog.org/Middle-East/Iran/East/Mashhad/blog-207702.html Finally this is our next blog entry... it took a while and is short wrap up of our last 10 days in beautiful Iran.EsfahanThis city is the beauty queen of Iran. We stayed 4 nights but could have stayed a lot more. The biggest attraction is the Imam Khomeini Square. The second biggest square in the world the biggest is Tiananmen Square in China is not only huge but it is surrounded by nice build http://www.travelblog.org/Middle-East/Iran/East/Mashhad/blog-203417.html We have included in this entry a map where you can see our journey of the first 19 days in Iran. Just click on the map to the left.YazdAlthough we are on one of the different branches of the Silk Road since we reached Central Anatolia in Turkey we have not yet written a lot about it. Not only Silvan and Annamaria traveled to Yazd but also the probably best known Silk Road traveler Marco Polo. He http://www.travelblog.org/Middle-East/Iran/East/Yazd/blog-203078.html Vista dall'alto Yazd appare come una uniforme distesa marrone di basse case di fango punteggiata dalle cupole azzurre e dagli slanciati minareti finemente decorati delle sue moschee.Cio' che risalta maggiormente e' la quantita' impressionante di badghirs le antiche torri di ventilazione che servivano a rinfrescare le case durante le estati insopportabilmente calde e che ora costituiscono il ti http://www.travelblog.org/Middle-East/Iran/East/Yazd/blog-195944.html