Al Zahra Qom
Balwar Bahar St. & Montazeri Ave. P.O. Box 37185 Qom, Iran
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A flighting visit to Qom
Qom was a short enough trip from Tehran, and since we had gotten up so early, we had managed to make it there by noon. Our bus dropped us outside the town at a roundabout, and luckily for us, despite the constant haranguing from taxi drivers we managed to find a small ticket office that would store our bags for a few hours. After this we hopped in a taxi and headed into the ultra-conservative town.
As we drove in we got the feeling that our driver was a little ...
Mammouth city
... was made from cement, asphalt and tarmac, though many of the streets were lined with trees growing from the small channels that whisk waste water around the city. We were located in the south area of the city, which was the poorer, more industrialised area. Our district seemed to be a big trading point for car parts, and the streets were lined door to door with shops selling tyres, number plates and every accessory imaginable for every imaginable vehicle.
The ...
Desert Camping south of Tehran
Lu returned from a trip to Tehran very early during the morning with bad news from the Pakistan embassy that they couldn't do any more to help than what had already been done, so for the moment we would continue as per the itinerary, and make the call on bypassing the country in Yazd.
We left Masuleh at 8am for a long drive day, and ...
The Mothership
... and moving. Daughter of the 7th Sh'ia Immam and Sister of the 8th, she is consider by some to have transcribed from them amoung the most authentic of all Hadiths - reports of statements or actions of Muhammad,
or of his tacit approval of something said or done in ...
Qom
From Kashan we continued on another few hours and stopped in at Qom, the center of theological study in Iran and it was teeming with mullahs. A very, very conservative city and at one point I thought Kate was going to go back to the car since she ...
