Pardisan HOtel Mashad
Kalantari Exp., Next to Seda Sima Park Mashad, 9177948541, Iran
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Mashhad, the holy city of Iran
I am in Mashhad, the holiest place of Iran. The reason why it is holy is because of one important shrine. The shrine is called Hamam, not to exchange with Harem. The Hamam is one of the most beautiful buildings of the islamic world. In In this shrine is the 8th Imam off 12 buried. The Imams name was Reza, and he was born in Medina. He got only 53 …
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Welcome to Iran
... a Peugeot (mostly older versions of 405 and 206) and well dressed Iranis strolling along the many shops, couples often hand in hand, we could have arrived in any large city of France. Such a civilized country requires a decent look, so off with the scruffy beard ;)
Despite freezing temperatures and the over-night snow, we visited Imam Reza’s Holy Shrine which is enveloped in a series of sacred areas collectively known as ...
Mashad - Our Confronting Introduction to Iran
... and bothered, I cannot tell you how much we enjoyed that drink. It was delicious. Accompanied by our driver Hussein, we made our way to the car. "My name is Hussein, but not SADDAM HUSSEIN! Ha, Ha!" laughed our driver. "OK team, let's GO, GO, GO!" he yelled at the top of his voice. Strange, we thought. This guy was sounding like an American. We later found out that Hussein was stationed in the USA for some years whilst he was serving in the army. This was ...
Stumbling Over the Border and Into Iran
... with Advantour (Owadan), and that there would be no problems. And as far as our travel agents were concerned, there were no problems with their organisation. The border bureaucracy - well.....
And like all border crossings, it was not at all easy. Firstly, we had to negotiate a long walk from our car, literally squeezing our way with our luggage between dozens of huge and massively long, articulated road trains and stumbling over rough ...
Entering Iran
20/8/2010
It was a short drive to the Turkmen-Irani borders, the scenery was lovely! The Corpidag mountain range that spread from Turkmenistan across the Iranian borders, had very little vegetation, but beautiful cross-hatched textures that had gradual shades of sandy tones. As we crossed the first border to no-mans land, i was dying to take a picture, but the tour guide was a bit shaken up and begged us not to, until we crossed into Iran. 30KM later, we ...


