Azarbayjan Hotel
Travel Blogs from Tabriz
Tabriz - honey capital of Iran
(Sim)
Tabriz was much bigger than I'd imagined – a fairly low level sprawling city. It took the taxi quite a long time to navigate through the busy streets, which were heavily gridlocked with traffic. We had become very lax about booking hotels as during our time travelling we'd never really had any problem with vacancies, so for …
Leaving Tabriz for Teheran and Esfehan
... in our clothes. We don't find shadow and we try to rest in the mimimal shadow that the motorbike creates. We rest a little while. From a hill - so silently that we both jump - comes three farmer ladies. They say something friendly and starts to walk away from us again. Suddenly one of the lady returns to us, says something and starts to run from where they originally came from. After 6-7 minutes she is back with us while the two other ladies ...
Border crossing to Iran
... family will meet us at a certain point. He drives ahead of us and when we stops finally outside a restaurant he says he has changed his plans – driving far away to another town to meet his auntie – and that he instead will take us for dinner in a nice place and then that we can sleep in his aunties house in a nice place in Tabriz (the second biggest town in Iran). The weather is hot and nice – about 30-35 C average day time – a little bit ...
We're Not in Kansas Anymore, Wilson
... swimming in some of his exfoliate? Ew!
The Hotel pool left just about everything to be desired but the water. Heavenly!! About 30 degrees celcius and very welcoming for a guy that had not been submerged in hot water for the last several months! I could have stayed in that pool for hours. Wait. I did. I got kicked out when some of the women staying in the hotel wanted a soak. It is hotel policy that the women and men staying at the hotel don't ...
Lost (and Found) in Tabriz
... the course set by the Pahlavis.
We were at a bazaar full of spices and dried fruit. Since there was too much choice Sasha just picked some snacks for that day. Dasha grabbed some fresh fruit and figs. When we got outside it became really hot. Sasha and Dasha tried to take a cab. Unfortunately, no cab was willing to stop for us. A random stranger approached us and used the sign language to ask where were we going. We just showed ...