Hotel Laleh Yazd
Travel Blogs from Yazd
Yazd - The Silent Tower Academy Award
... ourselves further.
For the next twenty minutes we couldn't do anything without laughing. We laughed all the way down the hill and all the way around the site. Bahman tried his best to be tour guide showing me the hotels and the bazaar and giving me a history of the site and I tried my best to be tourist, but we would just look at each other and start laughing all over again at the memory of “Death of a Zoroastarian”. My sides hurt, and I was ...
Windcatchers.....
... totally baffled by the instructions. We managed to visit Alexanders Prison and find a traditional restaurant before abandoning the book entirely and just wandering about by ourselves. The city is wonderfully atmospheric, the old area consisting of narrow winding lanes enclosed within high mud brick walls. Many of the doorways have two knockers that emit different sounds, one signifying the arrival of a woman, the other a man. This enables to residents to send ...
Central Iranian Playground
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These guys don’t stop dancing! Because it’s illegal they grab every opportunity they can. The hike for example, after returning back to the mini buses, the aisle down the guts of the bus turned into a dance floor, when that wasn’t enough, the buses stopped midway home for a quick 30min dance off followed by more dancing in the bus for the remaining half of ...
Too hot round here
... 8220;You know I like big man. Like big, strong man. Because they are good to feel.” Max, being a little surprised, asks him what he means by this and the tour guide responds, “You see, I am gay, you know homosexual? I am that. In Yazd, the women are too conservative so many of us just go with men. At the end of the day you know, hole is hole!” Max told me that he was so shocked and found that quote absolutely hilarious. Then Max trying ...
The Oldest Living City on Earth
... touch each other even accidentally. Dasha was already used that devout Iranians won't shake her hand. They would great her with a slight bow instead. After all, greeting customs differ from country to country and we are used to that by now.
After spending a few hours with Maria's family David came home finishing a 24 hour shift as a
power plant engineer. He took us on a sunset city tour. Unfortunately, many Iranians are harassed in that town ...