http://www.travelblog.org/Middle-East/Iran/East/Yazd/ Travel adventures in journals and photos from Middle East , Iran , East , Yazd en-us Thu, 07 Jan 2010 16:54:56 +0000 Thu, 07 Jan 2010 16:54:56 +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 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 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 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 An apology to those buggers I admit I used to be one whose egos notch up fifty levels with the addition of a Mario star when they're walking about the Roman Forum with their travel buddies giving an unofficial tour...to find that after 15 minutes of ranting the group's multiplied to accompany stingy strangers who're keen to find out what those slabs of marble are too BUGGER 'And over there http://www.travelblog.org/Middle-East/Iran/East/Yazd/blog-154395.html Sadly I don't do the sleepingonthebus routine very well and to top it off it's quite tough for me to even sleep a wink on the longest plane ride. You have obviously come across one of those really ANNOYING PASSENGERs sitting next to you on a long haul who just have to a get up a million times and walk up and down the aisles b exercise for ages at the back chilling with other sketchy p http://www.travelblog.org/Middle-East/Iran/East/Yazd/blog-153675.html Lunes 13 Llegamos a Yazd son las 5 de la tarde y el gelido viento nos pilla desprevenidos atras quedaron los calores del Golfo Persico Llamamos a nuestro amigo Mahmood y nos dice que podemos encontrarnos en una hora en su casa asi que para hacer tiempo vamos a comer algo a un fastfood cercano. Marc pide unos spagettis que estan expuestos en el mostrador pensando que asi variara un poco la http://www.travelblog.org/Middle-East/Iran/East/Yazd/blog-104584.html Me esta costando escribir estos blogs ....supongo que influye que es un viaje de trabajo y no de placer y a un pais que no es nuevo y no nos sorprende tanto asi que tal vez lo que explique no sea muy interesante espero compensarlo con las fotosAl final el Golfo Persico ha resultado ser un fraude en primer lugar ese calor asfixiante vuelvo a reiterar que no puedo imaginarme como debe ser en http://www.travelblog.org/Middle-East/Iran/East/Yazd/blog-102378.html