Al Zahra Qom

Dnes nás ve Firouzehu probudilo hned několik zvonění najednou, načež jsme se neochotně vydali na snídani. Byla opět stejná jak posledně - marmeláda a divná niva. Po naházení vypraného prádla do báglů jsme odešli na již dlouho plánovanou a očekávanou cestu na Tochal lanovkou. Prosekali jsme se metrem, taxíky a autobusy až k nástupišti do lanovky. Byly ty jednotliv ...

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Po mirnem zaspani jsme s Petrem vyrazili na rychlou snidani. Byla to z pulky klasicka snidane ze skoly v prirode (marmeladicka) a trosku tradicni (jakasi niva). Tyto ingredience jsme si dali na mistni chleb. Nasledne jsme vyrazili do byvaleho vezeni Pahlaviho rezimu Ebrat. Cestou jsme si koupili pivko. Ackoli bylo nealkoholicke a ananasove, bylo urcite lepsi nez nejaka mistni Veseta, kterou jsme lili predtim. Pak uz jsme ...

Po p&#345;íjezdu do Kará&#269;e, co&#382; je milionové m&#283;sto poblí&#382; Teheránu, nás anglicky mluvící pán z kupé odvedl na taxi, které nás odvezlo na metro do Teheránu. Linka metra spojující Kará&#269; a Teherán je spí&#353;e vlak a teprve v Teheránu se p&#345;estupuje na regulérní metro, které má jeden vagón vyhrazený pro &#382;eny, které necht&#283;jí cestovat ve zbytku vlaku s mu&#382;i.<br> Dorazili jsme na zastávku im ...

During your tour to Iran, it will be a fascinating experience to take a trip to Alamut in order to be personally familiar with the kind of terrain and location where these people stayed in. It helps you learn and remember why assassins had chosen this site to lead their resistance movement against the foreign Seljuk invaders.<br><br>A Word about Assassins<br><br>As a sub-branch of Shiite Muslims, Ismailis, known as Assassins in the Western world, used to have ...

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 was ...

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... and parked our vehicle in a clear spot by the road. We waited 1½ hours, but Lou and Lynn did not arrive. We had arranged to camp up in Esfahan so kept traveling on the major highway towards it. At the last toll before Esfahan we waited another half an hour. I got the photo of Lou and Lynn and the photo of their vehicle out of the car and took it to the toll keeper. He indicated that that car had already gone through, so we jumped back into ours ...

... Most were written in Farsi or Arabic, but there were also Christian texts, lots of Coptic writings, Hindu and Jewish that had not been destroyed by religious bigotry. The library was founded by Marashi at the turn of the century when he noticed Europeans were buying handwritten books to take home. Being a poor mullah during the British occupation, he began saving up and purchasing these items himself. As our guide told us, Marashi took ...

My first taste of hotel breakfast in Iran did not at all impress me. Butter, jam, dry toast, boiled egg and tea. Soon I find myself skipping them altogether. I'm sure Iranians have the privilege of enjoying much better breakfast than us poor foreigners. <br><br>I took the subway to Terminal e Jonoub for the bus to Qom, the second holiest city in Iran and also the hometown of Khomeini. Qom is also famous for its silk carpets. It was pretty easy to find the ...