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Rasht Slideshow
Rasht
Travel Blogs from Rasht, Iran
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The New Forest, in Iran?!
... fixated on making progress and the remainder of the ride was not very enjoyable as a result. Hours later I finally made it to Rasht and gave Setareh a call. Unable to decode the directions she had given me I handed the phone to a local. The problem was ...
My table tennis downfall
After breakfast Setareh took me to to the town centre. Rasht is a far more liberal city than others that I have visited in Iran. The loud clothing and womens stylish wearing of the hijab highlighted this. Setareh's friend a hairdresser who we meet in the ...
A very fast introduction (1/2)
... . Une petite ville sans souci, bien urbaine (et bien immense, comme Tabriz) et que je quittai fort ravi, en partance pour Rasht. Le trajet, longeant la mer Caspienne, devait être ravissant ! C'était sans compter un bus bien ...
What a long day!
... the border though and the lack of Farsi speaking skills added an extra stress to the process of finding transport to Rasht - my first destination in Iran. I actually managed to agree a reasonable price with a taxi driver (120000 Rials = USD15.00) and we ...
Rasht - gateway to Masuleh
(Sim) That evening, feeling like "real travellers", we braved our first night bus, from Tabriz to Rasht (as recommended by Nasser the Tourist man). This was a 10 hour bus ride that would arrive 7am. We had met our first foreign tourists in Iran earlier in ...
A simple but cute town
... . Farid was actually on his way to university as I spoke to him. Every Saturday night he got an overnight bus from Tabriz to Rasht, spent 12 hours on Sunday in lectures, then another night bus home again in the evening. He would then spend the rest of the ...
"Why Rasht?"
... next 2.5 weeks. No need to book hotels in advance as they were empty. Impressions of Rasht I had the first of what became a regular snack in Iran here: triangular samosa-like fried pastry stuffed with spiced potatoes and vegetables. Sold at many juice ...
Bazaar
... der Stadt fand ich den Basar. Eigentlich ist Freitag in der islamischen Welt, der 'Sonntag', das heisst alle Laeden sind geschlossen. In Rasht ist dann auf dem Basar aber die Hoelle los. Oft muss man lange warten, bis man einige Schritte machen kann. Es ...
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