Iran Travel Blogs

Off to Shiraz
Jun 10, 2007 (16 photos)

... ; For dinner, Reza took us to the upscale part of town to a modern multi-storied shopping center where we ate in Iran's version of a fast food court.  Very similar to ours in the states.  There are Iranian versions of popular american restaurants ...

Discovering Iran
Jun 19, 2007 (4 photos)

... another time two women bought us a plate of sweets while we were having chai in a hotel. It was unbelievable!   Iran has been described as a country with the most religious government but the most secular citizenry.  There seems to be quite a ...

The start of my Iran Adventure
Jun 8, 2007 (27 photos)

I arrived in Iran on the 8th and was met with smiling faces by many in the airport including Bernard's friend, Bahman, who drove me to the Atlas Hotel.  The city was very clean but the traffic was busy.  Like other countries I have visited, lanes ...

Dates!
Sep 30, 2005 (27 photos)

... can just pick them for yourself from everywhere. We went for more of a wander round town in search of some items for me. Iran has a noticable absence of products for the ladies (if you haven't cottoned on yet, I mean sanitary items). We'd been looking ...

Hello, I love you
Sep 19, 2005 (16 photos)

... king by the hands!!! Outside the entrance there are also the skeletal remains of the tents where the last Shah of Iran held an incredibly expensive party to celebrate the 2500th anniversary of Persian monarchy in 1971. Apparently up until 10 years ago ...

Kermanshah, Bisotun from afar and Taq-E Bostan
Sep 9, 2005 (16 photos)

... must have been a small man. When we emerged the streets started to fill and we were showered with 'hello's' and 'welcome to Iran's'. The icecream is cheap and plentiful here in Iran, so we made sure we had a sample of Kermanshah's best. The shopkeeper ...

Don't fool with us!
Sep 28, 2005 (28 photos)

... until the taxi driver had disappeared and I went back and negotiated a room. It was the quietest we'd had in the whole of Iran!!! We even had a new fan! We walked around the bazaar and tried to search out the carpet section. But there were none. All ...

Goodbye freedom to wear what I like
Sep 5, 2005 (1 photos)

... to us as we were walking down the street. Impressive for a 13yr old. Although he was having private lessons. First day in Iran. I haven't got a feel for anything yet really, but can see that the scarf is going to prove difficult! It's pretty hot too ...

More
Sep 22, 2005

... our time (two and half days worth) was spent checking out the various carpet shops, taking photos and sending loads of emails. Email in Iran isn't the best so it took a long time sending the pics but we were on a first name basis with the email guy and he ...

Esfehan (blog)
May 20, 2007 (21 photos)

... from talking to lots of different people - Ali who invited me into his stall in the bazaar to talk about working life in Iran and Scotland, Mehim who I started speaking to in a tea house managed a carpet stall and showed me them being made and repaired ...

Relaxing
Sep 15, 2005 (16 photos)

... bought us a dish of 'Ash'. a kind of thick green vegie soup thing with noodles and barley. It's the first place in Iran that I've felt a little relaxed. Although when we were walking back the same weirdo guy popped up from nowhere and started with the ...

Masouleh (blog)
May 17, 2007 (12 photos)

... 7 munchies came to just two pounds fifty!! More amazingly diesel is 1 percent of the price it is in Britain! Driving through Northern Iran showed us how lush it was and the amount of rice padis it has, surprising because all I thought before coming was ...

Khoda Hafez!
Oct 3, 2005 (3 photos)

... mins into the journey the driver says he doesn't have enought petrol and can't take us. I KNEW this would happen!!!! I said, 'This is Iran. You can buy petrol anywhere.' He said nothing. Leo also told him to buy some. I knew he wouldn't take us. We ...

Mud, mud, glorious mud!!!
Sep 25, 2005 (34 photos)

Whilst purchasing our bus tickets to Yazd, David had made yet another friend. We got the last two seats on the bus but they weren't together. David's new friend (who just happened to want a sponsor to get into Australia) was going to fix that for us. ...

Big and crazy
Sep 11, 2005 (12 photos)

... carpet shop (how unusual!) and fed us loads of tea. They were nice boys, and his brother was actually a shooting champion of Iran and had met the Australian Olympic Shooting Champ, Michael Diamond. He thought we knew him, I mean, why wouldn't we? We're ...

Zanjan
Sep 6, 2005 (5 photos)

We left Tabriz quite early. There isn't much to see there and we were eager to move on. I was hoping the food would improve in the next place. We got a shared taxi - they squish as many people in as possible but problems arise when women have to get ...

Persepolis and the Nomads
Jun 12, 2007 (26 photos)

... a newly married couple, she Iranian, he Australian.  We decided that he would probably become head of business development for Iran should he ever become a citizens because he kept saying "you could make money here" each time he spoke of things he ...

Yes it's true - Iranian Hospitality
Sep 7, 2005 (12 photos)

... or a piece of watermelon instead of a crate of apples and two or three watermelons! And was appalled at how expensive it was. Iran is cheap - dirt cheap for fruit for the locals. Of course they rip tourists off. But it's still cheap. They took us for ...

Arbaqu and Caravanserai Zein-o-din
Jun 14, 2007 (36 photos)

... mom, I now know how to pay a bit of bridge!)  We were being quite scandalous, because card playing is illegal in Iran, but like most everything here, what is illegal in public is often enjoyed in private.  The following day on the 14th, we ...

The Beast of Qazvin
Sep 8, 2005 (7 photos)

... decided to check out as early as possible. Only saw two other tourists today, they were leaving. Perhaps the Beast had approached them too. As David has warned - if you are travelling to Qazvin (somtimes spelt Gazvin) DO NOT stay at the Hotel Iran.

Devastation
Oct 1, 2005 (20 photos)

As I explained in the last log, Bam was hit by a massive earthquake on the 26th of December 2003. In fact, at Tadek's wedding, we met a couple who had left Bam on the 25th of December. What was even more of a coincidence was that they left Phuket on the ...

The Second City
Sep 6, 2005 (11 photos)

... . I was amazed with this. We have been to a few Muslim countries over the years and normally, they are quite dull. But this is Iran !!! I could bore you with the names but the best was the Jameh Mosque, but the Khanum Mosque, which is for women only, does ...

Unimpressed
Sep 8, 2005 (11 photos)

... worked there, but she didn't. I wanted to question her more, but we had to get on a bus. That is when I learnt a new word in Iran Segregation What is this Well, in Iran, there is a bar and the women sit in the last 1/4 of the bus and the men have ...

Doing My Head In
Sep 23, 2005 (9 photos)

We jumped into a cab nice and early. Once at the bus station, we were given a nice shock when the Extremist charged us a lot less than is usual. We bought some tea and cakes, and this was cheap as well. This day was brilliant. It was 08:30, so we went ...

Not Seeing
Sep 10, 2005 (16 photos)

Thankfully for us, there was a bus leaving early in the morning, so we caught a cab to the bus station, and by 08:00, we were on our way to Kermanshah. The reason for coming here was that this year on BBC2, there was a show called 80 Treasures Around The ...

Pollutionsville
Sep 13, 2005 (19 photos)

... we were in their shots. Once bored of this, we went across the road to the cemetery which has 1000's of people buried from the Iran/Iraq war. Exciting !!! Back onto the Metro, Lucy said fuck it to the segregation and sat with me in the mens. A few other ...

Tabriz (map pin)
May 14, 2007

Tabriz

Photos of Iran
Feb 1, 2005 (49 photos)

Photos of Iran

Red Red Wiiiiiiiine
Sep 20, 2005 (53 photos)

... . I did offer him some money, but hew would not accept it. Lunch was ok, and we found out that he worked for the President of Iran. Fuck I meet the right people. He told us about him and then it was time to get back on the bus and head to Shiraz. Upon ...

Beers Needed
Oct 3, 2005 (3 photos)

... a ute, negotiated a price of two Khomeinis. Within 10 minutes, we had arrived, handed our passports over, and we were free from Iran. Now I really did enjoy Iran. We had some great experiences in this country, and I really do want to go back, but we ...