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Tehran Slideshow
Tehran
Travel Blogs from Tehran, Iran
Tehran: dirty, noisy, and a whole lot of fun.
... mountains; some with jagged peaks, others covered in lush forests. After a five hour bus ride, we arrived in the nation's capital. Tehran has been described as the big, ugly, dirty beating heart of Iran. I couldn't come up with a more accurate description ...
Getting into Iran
... facilities around the border and western cards do not work in Iran, there is no visa or mastercard here! I had a gander around Tehran and went to the Museum on International Espionage, the former US embassy, and saw the anti US grafitti. I had ...
the infidel has landed
... and they're blowing each up each other on the streets. Before I discuss the city of Tehran lets first just get it over with. Iran is a great country, filled with amazing people and NOTHING like what is portrayed in the Australian media and ...
Besuch der 20-Mio-Stadt / Visit of the 20-Mio-City
... . Die dunkelziffer der Einwohner Teherans soll ueber 20 Millionen betragen, meinten Einheimische! XXXXX Highlight of Iran: Drive through chaos-city Tehran!!! But 25km before the centre meeting with a unbelievable friendly guy on the highway who was ...
Just changing planes
When we came out of the airplane all women need to wear a cloth and a large blouse to cover up their body parts. That deserves a nice picture since this is not an everyday sight! On the airport there is no such thing as airco so it was ...
Bulletpoints from My Moleskine
... of modern and ancient art collection, I got the feeling that she was the main intellectual force behind the Palace. Surprisingly, Tehran has a British School that is larger than the Brit in Istanbul. How could the anti-Western establishment allow this? ...
Khoda Hafez! Iran.
... the campaign – a few days later in London, I read that just before the vote, a bomb killed a few people in Tehran’s Imam Khomeini Square, the same place where I had lacksadaisically wandered about with a shawarma sandwich in hand a few weeks ...
Km 6385, Tehran
... von 9 Litern! Ausser einer Nacht im Zelt wurde ich bis jetzt jeden Abend irgendwo zum übernachten eingeladen. Die Gastfreundschaft im Iran ist wirklich gewaltig! Seit vier Tagen bin ich nun in Teheran und versuche noch die letzten fehlenden Visas zu ...
Minab to Tehran
... I checked out of the hotel early, took a cab to the airport and waited five hours before I boarded the plane back to Tehran. The flight was packed with sweaty men and burka-clad ladies. A mother held her severely deformed boy throughout the flight, his ...
Iran
... eten betaald, dan mij uitgenodigd bij hem thuis (met nog meer eten natuurlijk), dan nog heel de avond rondgereden door Tehran, verschillende parken en gebouwen laten zien en mij tenslotte nog op een grote coup ijs getracteerd. Ongelooflijk! Ok, nu heb ...
Peel Another Layer
... as they would be taken advantage of and duped all over the world - unaware that the rest of the world is not like Iran. * * * Tehran, as a city, is an unattractive grimy polluted hole. Somehow, we have had a blast here and had to tear ourselves ...
4.00pm and get off the streets
... leave no room for doubt, and although they don’t appear to be newly painted, they’re a constant reminder to the Tehran people. In one panel, the hand of the USA is depicted with blackened claws, squeezing the life out of the world, ...
Tehran the Long Long Hard Way
Yikes – 5am and we're on the road to Tehran! The hotel kindly provided takeaway breakfast. It was the type of breakfast eaten throughout the Middle East and one which we have become accustomed to – tomato, cucumber, soft cheese, ...
My god there are mountains behind Tehran
... the person who i would be CSing with for one night. What struck me was that there were these huge snow capped mountains behind Tehran. I always knew they were there, but last time i was here they were covered by smog-they looked amazing and i wished i ...
Chadores, Scarfs, Women and Sex
... when it comes to leaving the building, it is a common exit! Interestingly, I observed the following sign in the Tehran airport. "Islamic dress code is to respect the Muslim women values". My immediate thoughts were...respected by who?...men or women? ...
Tehran Traffic - Navigating the Chaos
... different. However, after being in Lima, Beijing and even Almaty, I was still awestruck and nervous about navigating the streets of Tehran. Drivers are incredibly in tune with their vehicles, like they are all one. I have seen them weave in and out ...
Tehran :happy:
... longuement. La prison, dans le même état qu'il y a 30 ans, sent vraiment la mort. Débarquer soudainement dans l'Iran de Khamenei (successeur du premier Guide Suprême, mort en 1989), dans un tel environnement, fut aussi passionnant que révoltant, ...
Return to Traffic
Great to be back with Mr Musavi at his Firouzeh Hotel as part of our pitstop as we head west for Athens. Also a chance for some souvenir photos of the newspapers to help me remember the stilted headlines that gave me a laugh each day (photos ...
The Eclectic City Sounds of Tehran
... of course your packed-like-sardine buses. Put them together and what you have is a mixed salad of city sounds from Tehran's Orchestra of Automobilias. We were fortunate enough to have this local group serenade us from the twelfth storey of our hotel. ...
Und weiter gehts...
Konnte mich leider nicht eher melden, da die Internetzensur schon so weit gegangen ist, dass ich meinen Blog nicht mehr oeffnen konnte. Die letzten zwei Wochen habe ich wieder unglaublich viel erlebt. Highligts waren der Besuch meines guten alten ...
Train Jouney to Tehrean
... ). Thehran also the city I've been to that has the least amount of billboards and advertisements. Despite these things Tehran is quite an uninteresting city for me. There really is no obvious vibrancy or energy here (apart from the ...
Finding the Meaning of Islam
... (1980-1988 with Iraq) and the brutal 1979 Islamic Revolution. The first of these events were evident on the streets of Tehran where new signs were everywhere as many street names had been changed to honour Iraqi war martyrs. And the chilling reminders ...
The Burn
... Natanz. The site is not hard to miss considering all the anti-aircraft machinery placed around it. We arrived to back in Tehran in the late afternoon and spent most of our time watching retelevised loops of the Iranian news as there were no English ...
Exploring Tehran "Paris of Asia"
... flight of "Hava Pemaee Iran" a weekly three hour direct flight from Karachi to Tehran to reach Meharabad Airport-Tehran,an International Airport of Iran.As soon as aeroplane landed at the airport I became very excited to see the historical airport and my ...
Tasty Iranian Food
... this one definitely caught my eye. My next introduction to Iranian food came about when I ate at another local restaurant near Tehran University known for its ash (osh). This restaurant below street level was not only unique because single males had to ...
Out Of Office
We are unable to update the site as TravelPod is banned in Iran. We are writing as we go and saving it though - so please come back at the end of October to see what's happening! Some of you will know that Claude is heading to Ghana as a volunteer on ...
We Are Not Terrorists
... . Much of this is attributed to my friend who has been my main conduit for meeting people. During my first day in Tehran, I had a wonderful encounter with a local restaurant owner who wanted me to take him to Canada. This honest, simple-living, hard ...
A very fast introduction (2/2)
... mon égard. Seul dans le métro, le plan à la main, je crus comprendre que j'étais bel et bien arrivé en Iran. ...