Atlas Hotel
Travel Blogs from Tehran
Venturing into the misunderstood country
My friend and I planned this trip almost 1 year ago, today marks the day we journey into this land where media and even my friends in Singapore deems to be dangerous. I read that this misunderstood country has riches in culture that awaits those who "dare" to venture into its shores. Well the flight to Tehran was rather torturous, partly due to the …
Back to where we started
We spend most of the time driving back from Anzali to Tehran. There are 2 ways of getting back to Tehran from Anzali: one is via Rasht and Qazvin, the way we came from; and the other via the Caspian Sea coast and then turning into the mountains. We went via the latter route. The initial part of the was quite uneventful, I would expect to see the …
The start of my Iran Adventure
I arrived in Iran on the 8th and was met with smiling faces by many in the airport including Bernard's friend, Bahman, who drove me to the Atlas Hotel. The city was very clean but the traffic was busy. Like other countries I have visited, lanes on the road are 'suggestions' rather than rules. The evening that I arrived, one of the ladies in the …
Saying Goodbye Breaks My Heart!
... I was still in search of my elusive carpet). The shop was a sister shop to the place we had visited in my beautiful, beloved Shiraz, and the proprietor was the father of the fellows I had previously met.
Mr. Vafaei greeted me like a long lost daughter, had us sit down and immediately served us tea. Mr. Vafaei then had a carpet brought out, which had been shipped to his shop from Shiraz at my request. I had contemplated buying the carpet ...
So much wealth...
... in this leg of our journey. Eventually she located the correct phone number and had a chat to the cleaner who told us to turn up the next day at 11am. Despite the promising invitation she still insisted that she ring and check the next morning before we set off. That sorted she gave us directions to the museum and an authentic tea house in the area.
The National Jewels museum is a story of excess. Located in a vault in the Central Bank of Iran ...