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Pars International Mashad

Vakilabad, Sayed Shirazi Junction Mashad, Iran

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Welcome to Iran

A travel blog entry by michu

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... e Razzavi. The magical city-within-a-city sprouts dazzling clusters of domes and minarets in blue and pure gold behind magnificent arched arcades. Unfortunately no cameras were allowed and it is difficult for me to put the sights into words. The visit was mind blowing; especially the inside of the complex where the Holy Shrine of Imam Reza is kept. Thousands of Muslim, man and women separated, were making their way through long ...

Mashad - Our Confronting Introduction to Iran

A travel blog entry by crowdywendy

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... to some of the more bizarre contradictions we were to experience in Iran.

It was not a great start to our travels in Iran. You cannot help but feel tense when you are so out of control and without your passport. And so far our Iran travels had been difficult to organise, despite the assistance of our travel agent Ms Pari Nikzad of Paritour travel agency. It was almost impossible to book in Australia any flights into or from Iran so we ...

Stumbling Over the Border and Into Iran

A travel blog entry by crowdywendy

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... before we reached the official border administration buildings. We wondered how people with a lot of luggage would have fared - let alone anyone with an even slight physical disability.

Thankfully Turkmenistan allows guides to assist their tourists with border formalities. We arrived at the border administration buildings to find that there were no English written immigrations forms, only those in Turkmen language. Apparently, they had run out ...

Entering Iran

A travel blog entry by sheikha

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... Iran, i wore my black dress (chodar and hijab), and attempted to cover my head, but it kept falling off (i just wasn't made for this!), as we passed border control, our Iranian guide was waiting for us, and when he saw me, he said in a very forceful manner "you are in ISLAMIC republic of Iran!" i looked at him and smiled, then i realized he was talking about my hijab-less head! i've been called off twice since i arrived in Iran. As David says whenever he's in ...

My hot chick in Iran!!

A travel blog entry by ware_daniel

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... poet in Iran, Ferdowsi. He is credited with saving the Persian language and history with his wonderful, epic poems of heroes similar to Hercules in Greece or Siegfried in Germany. His mausoleum was simple marble, well visited and located in a nice park. Our guide informed us that he is single handedly more responsible for maintaining Persian culture than anyone else in Iran. Probably warrants a little ...