Howeyzeh Hotel
Travel Blogs from Tehran
Saying Goodbye Breaks My Heart!
... dinner for me I went upstairs to the penthouse around 8. Dinner was actually quite lovely, and I had a magnificent view over Tehran from the top of the hotel.
Next morning Bahman met me for breakfast and we planned out our day. Our first stop would be the Carpet Museum. Since it was such a beautiful, sunny morning, Bahman suggested we walk to the museum. Perfect.
The Carpet Museum contained some of the oldest and most ...
So much wealth...
... After wandering for a couple of hours we headed back to a local restaurant for lunch and then onto a lovely contemporary cafe for coffee and wifi. For a minute there I could have been in many a city in Europe or Australia. The coffee was great, the service attentive and the atmosphere relaxed and informal. Just what the doctor ordered except for the copious amounts of caffeine that kept us up most of the night!!! Not a good sign with another long bus ride the next ...
Tehran
... my stay with 'Warm Showers' hosts in Berlin: Daniela and Tobi, who showed me their slide presentation of their trip across the Pamir Highway ...providing much needed details about weather and timing and re-enthused me that it was possible and doable and that if I wanted to do it ..."Dude, you need to giddy up!!" From that slide show presentation, I have had an excitement inside of me for the Pamir Highway. One that has gotten me through ...
Tehran Arrival!
Tehran chilling
I am in Iran! After paying $100 for the overall process of getting a visa (70$ for the actual visa and $30 for the invitation reference), I finally made it in. I flew from Dubai to Tehran and arrived at the Imam Khomeini Airport (one of many things named after the religious revolutionary). I didn't have any Iranian Rials, so I decided to ask the bank at the airport to change money. The guy at the counter told me that ...
Tehran - Day 2
... the photo was taken. There were no English explanation so I'm not sure what message the museum was trying to give -it seemed to be glorifying their sacrifice but it didn't shrink from showing the horrors of war either.
I eventually got rid of the guy and got the metro to the US Den of Espionage (aka the US Embassy). This is in affluent North Tehran and has all those famous wall painting that most people have seen - the statue of liberty as a skeleton, the 'Down with ...