Morvarid Khazar Hotel Noor

Dnes nás ve Firouzehu probudilo hned několik zvonění najednou, načež jsme se neochotně vydali na snídani. Byla opět stejná jak posledně - marmeláda a divná niva. Po naházení vypraného prádla do báglů jsme odešli na již dlouho plánovanou a očekávanou cestu na Tochal lanovkou. Prosekali jsme se metrem, taxíky a autobusy až k nástupišti do lanovky. Byly ty jednotliv ...

... do Ceska, jak si Dolda ozkousel, coz bylo perfektni. Nasledne jsme odjeli na vlakove nadrazi, abychom nastoupili na nocni vlak do Teheranu. Cestou v metru se s nami dal do reci prijemny mladik, ktery nam vypravel o mistnich pomerech (cerny trh s alkoholem - 300 dolaru za sampano, vojenska sluzba - bez ni nedostanete pas). Az jsme se podivili, ze se neboji na verejnych mistech toto roztrubovat s ocividnym nespokojenim.

... Těch 20000 nikdy neviděl.

Po chvilce vysedávání v parku a milém rozhovoru s neznámou Íránskou ženou jsme se vydali zpět do hotelu. Po cestě na hotel si zvládl Dolda jen pomocí perštiny (a rukou) objednat chleba a poté jsme se ještě stavili na večeři v místní restauraci. Zítra plánujeme prohlídku dalších míst v Teheránu, tentokrát raději bez průvodce.

... adjacent mountains.

The Shape of Alamut Fortress

This stronghold is behind and within a huge virgin rock that looks like any other rocks in the range to the extent that it could be easily mistaken with the rest of them. You get to the foot of the hill where the rocky fortress is and you still have difficulty to see it. You have to walk around it and climb some very difficult cliffs to be able to see the entrance.

Now, put yourself in the ...

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 The image of Iran as a travel destination 

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... maybe that an engine was missing. Of course all looked ship-shape from the outside, so climbing inside I again gave the plane a once-over. Other than Cyrillic script on all the emergency exits and some very 70's decor everything looked just like they would on a western airline. I could now only hope that all the other passengers had checked in 15kg under weight. Thankfully we had a very uneventful flight back up to Tehran, and we were soon in the back of a taxi ...

... the use of lanes – it looked nothing short of a free for all. We saw numerous accidents (some spanning over 100's of meters), particularly as we neared Tehran. This isn't surprising as in Iran there are 30,000 fatalities on the road every year, a staggering statistic, even for a country of 70 million. As we crawled along I watched my watch tick from 7pm to 8pm, 9pm – finally we arrived at the bus station at 10pm. With no way to communicate with Nikki and Heath, I was very ...

The next morning we started the long, long drive to Esfahan. We drove for hours towards Tehran, stopping in a small town for lunch for kebabs, before continuing on our way. Adam wanted to push past Tehran to avoid having to deal with it the next day, but traversing it proved slightly more difficult than we had expected, aided of course by Lee's spectacular navigational skills… Then followed roughly two hours of driving around in circles past the airport and scraping down side ...

... is living out the rest of its days as a phlegmatic visitor centre-cum-restaurant, looking as mundane and displaced by historical events as the old summer palace, which now functions as a stale government-run hotel. I tried to visit the Caspian Museum twice, but twice I was turned away by the guards. The staff was on an extended lunch break.

The bus ride from Ramsar to Tehran took six hours, during which I dozed ...