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Travel Blogs from Tabriz
Leaving Tabriz for Teheran and Esfehan
... the mess of Teheran centre (16 million people lives here) and outside of Teheran they do not accept dollars in the hotels we are up for the plan to drive the entire night - also to speed up our driving a bit. At this point our main interpreter at this stop offers us to come with him and his family to his house in Iran and to spend the night there. After a split seconds hesitation with accept this nice man’s offer and start the drive towards ...
Border crossing to Iran
... I cannot move properly having to care where this thing now goes. Also in this heat of about 35 degrees it’s not the most preferable thing to do putting on a head cover and also being forced to keep the jacket on and also wearing long sleeves. In the city center’s bazar in a small town we changed some Dollars into Iranian money. After a few minutes we were again surrounded by people wanting to help. We told them we wanted to eat – body language wise ...
We're Not in Kansas Anymore, Wilson
... few weeks.
Pulled myself away from the wonderful town of Trabzon and made it one night on the road, camped at a restaurant and when I continued my climb up a HUGE mountain pass the next day, I was stopped by a motorist who asked if I would like a lift. I said no initially, because of course I'm hard core and wanted to climb the nasty mountain pass all on my own!! He asked again though and I decided, "Why not?".
I mean, it would have been ...
Lost (and Found) in Tabriz
... talking to us in perfect English. "Don’t walk in the middle of the night with your bags. It is dangerous. Come with me, I will help you to find a nice cheap hotel". We kept on walking, he seemed like a shady character. We probably will never find out if he was an India-style tout or a someone with our best interests in mind. But we're guessing the latter.
The next hotel had similar facilities with a lower price ...