Shayan International Hotel Kish Island

... I was quickly ushered into a back room where copies of my passport were made, all of my fingerprints were taken – twice – and I was then photographed and told to wait outside the 'customs' office. Stepping out of the immigration office I was back in the main room of the small airport and the only one still around. Everyone else from the plane – mostly Filipinos and Romanians on visa runs – were gone.

While waiting outside the ...

... to show off the next day. I don't know: you wait a cumulative total of 44 years of driving time in England without a crash, then you step inside Iran and get hit within a week. Back to the Haghighi story... having hitched from Tabriz to Tehran with Iman (and a lovely Korean lad named Woo), we decided that it might be fun to hitch down to Shiraz with Iman's younger brother, Milad. Aside from the terrible experience of being refused entry ...

It almost sure that you will have to go to this tiny island south of Iran of you are either waiting for your employment visa in UAE or your 2 months Visit visa has lapse. During my brief stay here, I was able to see the plight of different individuals from different country with their own story to tell. But definitely the island is booming and developing because of the visa runs from neighboring countries.

i've been to this country for 3 times, and everytime, i get to encounter all sorts of people, hear different stories of survival, and wear muslim clothes, or clothes that cover the head, arms and the butt (hehe!), but i never got to visit the tourist ...