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tagasi tsivilisatsioonis
Hommikul ärkamine raske, liiga vara puhkuse kohta. Umbkeelselt hotellitöötajalt õnnestub kohalikus keeles hommikusööki küsida. Antakse. Edasi vantsime läbi vihma bussipeatusse, pole õnneks pikk maa. Sõit kulgeb pidevas pilves, taamal on pisut ...
India day 1 Delhi
10:18pm Tuesday, Feb 5 | What can I say?.bit of a culture shock Im afriad. They put their kids in cages and pull them by donkey to take them to school. The streets are mad, traffic lights are totally meaningless and cows take priority. The flight was ...
„Skucha” z Omanem i nagla zmiana plano
... tez kosztowala niemalo 4. dochodzil jeszcze koszt przelotu lub przeplyniecia do Dubaju na co tez potrzebowalismy kasy i to iranskich riali, na zakup ktorych nie mielismy juz walut w zwiazku ze zgubieniem przeze mnie mojej czesci kasy przeznaczonej na ...
First hitchhiking in Iran
... have so much that want to show. Anyway, we watched a football match and had some games of backgammon - which is invented in Iran (former Persia) - before I went to sleep. Shanpour drove me next morning to that city he had been headed before picking me up ...
Motoring and molestation
... reflecting on an action packed day. The other passenger and the taxi driver spent a while bickering about my reasoning for visiting Iran and the oddity of my appearance. Unbeknown to them, I understood the majority of what they were saying. The pinnacle ...
Through Dubai
During our stop in Dubai (One hour or so) I rushed to the smoke room to have a cigarette before i had to board again. I met a kiwi girl from the bay of islands in here who was really nice and on the same flight. We boarded again and I tried to get into a ...
Persepolis
Persepolis se trouve a une soixantaine de km au nord-est de Shiraz. Elle représente les plus grands succès de l'Empire achéménide... et sa défaite finale. Les restes de monumentales portes, d'escaliers impressionnants, de statues et sculptures de ...
Castle of Assassins
We woke up pretty early today as we were rather excited about the trip today. This is the third climax of the trip and certainly is the highlight of the trip. As we were packing up getting ready to check out of the hotel, I realised my camera is missing! ...
Mesto Yazd
Poèasi sva se iz Isfahana odpravila v malo pusèavsko mestece Yazd. Po obièajnem motoviljenju s taksisti in iskanju hotela sva pristala v predelani stari domaèiji, ki je vsekakor najlepsi hotel v katerem sem v zivljenju bival. Vendar so imeli na voljo ...
linnatuur
Hommikul bukime järgmiseks päevaks tuuri Persepolisesse koos lisadega. Saame päevaks kaasa bukleti, et valida ülehomseks välja üks loodusematk. Käime kindluses Arg-e Karim Khani, kus tehakse hoolega remonti. Üks torn on viltu, ja mitte vähe. ...
Developments
Writing has once again been a long time coming. Maybe its the polluted air; maybe its staying in one place thats making me stale, I suspect its more due to laziness. After 3 months of cycling everyday and religiously blogging I feel I deserve a ...
Across the border to Pakistan
Crossing the Iranian border into Pakistan was an unforgettable experience. The official visa and passport building was no more than a mud hut with a couple of money changers loitering outside, throwing eager glances in our direction. We were then shown ...
Milkshakes, motors and malls
Wooowww, the wonders of exercise. I had not got my blood bumping for the last two weeks and I was starting to feel incredibly lathargic. I had been putting off using the gym due to the cost, but I decided that it was a necessity. Provided I obtain enough ...
Visite de Téhéran
... parties du site du Palais sont des musées, dans lesquels les visiteurs peuvent voir certains aspects de la riche histoire culturelle de l'Iran. Le musée Jahan-Nama offre à voir des œuvres d'art iraniennes et étrangères, présentées à ou ...
Home of the poets
Shiraz is home to some of Iran's most famous poets and our Mount Sabalan friends. They kindly took us on a tour of the city and we dined in a trendy shopping mall that evening. We are grateful for their friendship...and the petroleum ...
Bazaar shopping & "the other" truck..!
... as with all the other Iranians, he is so concerned that we enjoy his country and he wants us to tell people back home what Iran is really like. Ie. that the people are so friendly, helpful and they cannot do enough for you. It really does put the English ...
bussisõidupäev
Alustame liikumist lõunasse. Marsruut Tabriz - Saqqez - Sanandaj. Kurdide juurde. Tabrizi bussjaamas pannakse meid õige bussi peale, tundub üldiselt, et uskumatutel hoitakse kogu aeg silm peal, et nad kaotsi ei läheks või ära ei eksiks. Sajab. ...
The City of Poets
... 2 hours, the flight was uneventful but scenic. We flew past the Zagros Mountains, which runs North/South to the west of Iran. We touched down 2 hours later, collected our luggages and our guide is already waiting for us. He introduced himself and ...
Review of Iran
... hostage diplomats. More recently, President Ahmadinejad and his pronouncements on nuclear power and Israel. Unfortunately for the rest of Iran, it is rarely reported that many of the presidents views are out of step with the average Iranians. ...
The jewel in Iran's crown
Travelling down to Esfahan from Tehran was our first experience in 'Stumpy', Alby's rather bizarre orange Land Rover. And what fun it was! After months of using public transport and being dumped in bus stations miles from ...
beautiful Esfahan
What a beautiful city, with its tea stalls and mosques. We made many friends in this town and met interesting travellers at the hostel. We had a problem with Pluto, our van, and went to get it checked. We left Pluto with the mechanic and asked him to ...
Utknelismy w Teheranie!!!
Dzięki poznanej w Zanjan Irance zdobyliśmy kontakt do Saida, który miał się nami zaopiekować w Teheranie. Po drobnych problemach komunikacyjnych związanych z angielskim Saida (przy okazji 1szy raz kupiliśmy kartę ...
Culture and lots of it
... at the itricately decorated walls. Next, the archaeology museum, the documentary we watched yesterday gave me a good idea of the Iran's history I was impressed with myself when I manged to remember the times of some of the different eras. Much of the ...
Iran, Esfahan
... da pride model v bancnem okencu in dovoli da mu placam 100 evrov za oba. Torej po skoraj dveh urah, sva uspesno prispela v Iran. Na letaliscu vzameva taxi (100 % so naju nategnil ampak ok) in se odpraviva proti Teheranu, kjer sva imela namen prenociti, ...
Iranczycy, Polacy, Chinka z Hongkongu, Holendrzy
Z naszymi nowymi hostami Kahve i Taher’em byla ciekawa sprawa: niedawno jakis ich kuzyn naraił im podroznika z Polski, ktory pokazal im jak dziala CS. Chyba nie do konca zrozumieli i powysylali zaproszenia do wszystkich podroznikow plci ...
Shoes, milkshakes and cars
Wooowww, the wonders of exercise. I had not got my blood bumping for the last two weeks and I was starting to feel incredibly lathargic. I had been putting off using the gym due to the cost, but I decided that it was a necessity. Provided I obtain enough ...
Lorestan
Hommikul jälle bussijaama poole teele. Sihiks Khorramabad, Lorestan ja lorid. Neil oma keel, oma kultuur jne. Sanandaj oli kurdide asuala, Tabrizis türklased ja aserid. Mõni pärslane ka siin on? Otsebussi Khorramabadi ei lähe. Auto läheks, aga ...
Life in a small town
... egg on top. None of the others were there so we ate basically alone, the food was ok but unimaginative, just standard Iran bread, cheese and eggs served up with coffee. I prefer buffets but beggers can’t be choosers although paying guests probably ...