Tabriz Hotel

... kolem dveri. Mimochodem, je tam klaunsky hotel ve skalnich domech za 300 dolaru pro tri osoby (protoze je vevnitr zarizen luxusne...)<br> Zitra planujeme odjezd do Armenie, doufame ze nebude problem s vizy na hranicich.<br><br>Pro zajimavost, jiz jsme urazili dopravnimi prostredky: 3000 km letadlem, 1200 km vlakem, kolem 2000 km po silnici<br><br>A jeste jedna ironie: Mam fakt dojem, ze v Iranu vypiju vic litru vyrobku od Coca-Coly nez u nas doma.<br>

... K pití jsme dostali citronový Zamzam.<br> V p&#367;l osmé jsme nastoupili do na&#353;eho no&#269;ního vlaku do Teheránu. Byl l&#367;&#382;kový, kupé &#353;estimístná, vzhled stejný jako nejklasi&#269;t&#283;j&#353;í vlaky &#268;D. Rozdíl byl jen, &#382;e se do kupé rozná&#353;í jídlo a pití. Z t&#345;í na&#353;ich spolucestujících um&#283;l jeden anglicky, byl to vojenský pilot v d&#367;chodu. Tak&#382;e se dalo klábosit. Usnuli jsme asi v jedenáct a nechali se vézt.

... left Nasser asked why I wore black clothes and a black hijab. I explained that when I arrived I wore white and that I got so stared at that I thought there must be some religious significance if you wore any other colour than black. In Urumeyeh and here in Tabriz almost all the women wore black, except their hijabs, which sometimes had some colour on them. To be honest I said, I just want to fit in. He went on to claim that the woman here all wear very bright colours, they don't ...

... from travellers like ourselves. We had now settled into truck travel and the journey was becoming more important than the destinations. 'Go with the flow, but let's go&#8217; was our new motto.<br><br>Mustapha, our guide, directed the truck onto some secondary roads and we set off to the caves. There was a state-owned Tourist Hotel on site so we would not have to worry about setting up camp.<br> <br>After a fascinating drive through the sparsely ...

... per litre, so a three hundred litre tank costs about $6.00.<br><br>Petrol is about $0.10 USD. No wonder the roads are full of ancient cars and even older trucks. No need for fuel efficiency here.<br><br>The temperature rose to close to 40 degrees and the wind was even hotter, so we cooked. There is only manual air-conditioning in the truck (windows). <br><br> Hot Traveller tip, wear Merino T shirts from Icebreaker or Untouched World and pour water down your ...

... of girl I would have expected to meet in Iran. She was forceful, outspoken, opinionated, and full of energy. Not the stereotypical submissive mice that one would expect. She was lovely, endearing, articulate and well-spoken also and tried extremely hard to get us to go to dinner with her. Alas, we declined and continued on our search for ice cream... We finished the evening with a long walk to the Sheraton hotel where we enjoyed strawberry milkshakes before heading back for beddy-byes.

... d'ânes dans les ruelles (pas de ruelles) et de gamins jouant avec des restes d'obus. C'est comme l'Europe, avec du fârsi sur les boutiques. Et des gens attentifs, curieux. L'introduction iranienne ainsi faite, je me dirigeai ce jeudi matin vers la mer Caspienne, m'autorisant un raid rural de quelques jours avant de rejoindre Teheran pour vendredi ou samedi.

... didn't have. He asked if I wanted macaroni and I said this would be fine. I thought it would be interesting to see how an Iranian guy would cook macaroni. We all went out together and bought some of the food he needed. Of course they wouldn't take money from me. After they finished making supper, we didn't eat it. They had other plans. They wanted to take me out for desert first. So we all jumped into Amir's car and drove to some outdoor restaurant and tried something called ...

... places I wanted to visit were closed because it was a holiday. As I already made up my mind to stay at Ali Reza's place, we returned to my hotel to collect my bags. When it was time to pay, the guy at the front desk tried to rip me off. He asked that I pay for 2 nights and for the price of a double room. I explained that I was offered the room at the single person rate but he would have none of it. He also justified charging me for 2 nights as I arrived at 7 am this morning ...

... in Iran if they are not married. A lot of times their dates are limited to seeing each other in their homes which isn't ideal as most of the time the young adults in Iran still live at home with their parents. Another thing that I noticed was how people would always refuse the first time they were offered something from somebody. All of us would share the food we would buy at the rest stops. I noticed that if someone offered another person peanuts or fruit, the person being ...