Cannot convert Traveler's Cheques in Tehran !!!!

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Woke up around 7:30am, had Lavash, Nutella, Honey and Butter for breakfast.

Mehdi and I went to the National History Museum. Mehdi showed his pass as he is doing Tourism planning for his degree and only told them that I was a student and they gave a 50% discount.

Even though I am not much of a museum fan, there were a few impressive things. I liked the Iranian Salt Man, some of the old characters and statues. Some palatial ruins like artefacts which reminded me of Anuradhapura. Where you have the wooden columns in this instance like the stone columns Sri Lanka had.

The National History Museum and the Islamic History Museum are side by side.

The door entrances in the Islamic museum were quite nice.

After the museum we went had a kebab and looked for a place to change money. We also passed the Turkish embassy and for information sake I dropped in at the embassy and asked if I could apply for a Turkish visa in Tehran and the answer was NO !!!

Now we come to the interesting part. Not a single place accepted my traveller’s cheques (TC’s). I tried everywhere to change the TC’s but absolutely no luck.

At this point in time I had about IRR10,000/= with me. About USD11/=. One of the travel agencies I went to, I was told that the bus from Tehran to Istanbul was IRR450,000/= and the train was IRR350,000/= but once a week and the next one was on Friday and today was Sunday.

Another company said no the bus will cost IRR250,000/= which was a relief.

We went back home and Mehdi called one of his friends who runs a travel agency and he said that the Central branch of Bank Melli will change the TC’s.

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Photos

Salt Man in Iran
National History Museum pictures

Salt Man in Iran Description
National History Museum pictures

Tehran Selucid Era 312-250BC
National History Museum pictures

Tehran Parthian Era 250BC-224AD
National History Museum pictures

Tehran Sassanid Era 224-651AD
National History Museum pictures

Ancient characters....
National History Museum pictures

Entrance designs....
Islamic Museum pictures

Entrance designs....
Islamic Museum pictures

Rug designs...
Islamic Museum pictures

Comments

[Navin]

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