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- Tehran
- Capital
- Iranian Rial (IRR)
- Currency
- 66,128,965
- Population
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Iran Slideshow
Travel Blogs from Iran
Thankyou everyone
This is a top pick! Thank you everyone for your genuine interest and support of the Pod diary and the overwhelming response to my chat with Macca this morning. He has a great show and I love to chime in with the lady who says: "Well I love it". I hope to have another ...
Our First Trip to Tehran
This is a top pick! ... , the wrong way down one way alleys, performing U-turns on busy 3 lane roads and just generally fitting in with the traffic in Iran (which is very tolerant), till we found the Samar Hotel. A very pretty young receptionist checked us in at $45US per night. ...
Leaving Tehran
This is a top pick! 1.9.06 Leaving Tehran Qom We got a great early start towards Esfahan, lost Lou and Lynn at a roundabout, then drove 90 kilometers out of our way in the wrong direction! This was a bad karma day. We eventually found the right road to Qom and tried to ...
Dates!
This is a top pick! ... 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 ...
Ahmad, Abad near Rafsanjan
This is a top pick! ... to put truck fuel into our cars. Several young people came to my window at the petrol stations for handouts which I'm happy to give. Iran is a land of contrasts. There is a lot of wealth from the oil, but with a population as large as Iran's, there is ...
Hello, I love you
This is a top pick! ... 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 ...
Off to Shiraz
This is a top pick! ... ; 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 ...
Discovering Iran
This is a top pick! ... then 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 ...
The start of my Iran Adventure
This is a top pick! 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, ...
Kermanshah, Bisotun from afar and Taq-E Bostan
This is a top pick! ... Ali'. He 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 ...
Don't fool with us!
This is a top pick! ... 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. ...
Goodbye freedom to wear what I like
This is a top pick! ... 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 ...
We can do it too!
This is a top pick! ... us to move on. She also rang around to enquire if there were any other Embassies which we could access while we were here in Iran. Parvis Habibi, also at the Australian Embassy, asked if we needed to cash any more money, and sent for a money changer, who ...
More
This is a top pick! ... of 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 ...
Relaxing
This is a top pick! ... 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 ...
The Iranian Border
This is a top pick! ... done to get us underway so quickly. He and Lou agreed on a figure and the boom gate was lifted for us to drive 20 meters into Iran. This kind of thing is just a fact of life in some parts of the world, and I understand and accept this. In Australia, (and ...
Ava's birthday
This is a top pick! ... Iran and we had to get to the border before Sunday. Lou wanted to go into Esfahan, which is one of the prettiest cities in Iran and had been highly recommended to us. Little did we know that Esfahan has a traffic problem (we should have guessed) and we ...
Got the Indian Visas!
This is a top pick! ... , when Parinaz and Massood, a couple Lou met in the internet café, came to our cars to see us. Parinaz, a member of the Iran Tour Guide Association, was disappointed that we were unable to come to dinner with them that night as we had already accepted an ...
Khoda Hafez!
This is a top pick! ... 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!!!
This is a top pick! 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 ...
No wonder they wear head cover!
This is a top pick! We had heard you could get beer in Quetta and I was really looking forward to some good food. We had also heard that as soon as you cross the border the changes were immediately noticable. More like a smack on the head with a sledge hammer!!!! Once we ...
Big and crazy
This is a top pick! ... 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? ...
Zanjan
This is a top pick! 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 ...
Esfehan (blog)
This is a top pick! ... 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 ...
Gifts from Iran
This is a top pick! ... a Chinese travel agent, but without any success in any area. Maybe we'll try again in New Dehli. We only have permission to stay in Iran for 10 days because we did not buy an Iranian Number plate which is about $60US. So, we must leave here by Monday 4th ...
Masouleh (blog)
This is a top pick! ... further up we helped clear the road of road that the water had displaced with many thanks from the locals. Passing into Iran was seemless - all the girls had the correct clothing (headscarfs, long sleeves and trousers/full length skirts) and all the ...
Yes it's true - Iranian Hospitality
This is a top pick! ... 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 ...
Persepolis and the Nomads
This is a top pick! ... 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 ...
The Beast of Qazvin
This is a top pick! ... 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 ...
Arbaqu and Caravanserai Zein-o-din
This is a top pick! ... 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, ...