Tehran Enghelab Hotel
Travel Blogs from Tehran
From Persia with Love...
Sorry about the gap between posts, Iran has no internet to speak of and when they have it, it doesnt really work...so here we go;
The crossing from Turkey to Iran was very long-winded. In this part of the world, there is no such thing as as queue...naturally being English, most of us were so incredibly polite that we let them barge ahead …
Saying Goodbye Breaks My Heart!
... chrome and had this wacky '70s vibe to it. (And since the overthrow of the last Shah occured in 1979, I guess the staircase fit the times back then, but now it just looked cheesy.)
Anyway, by Western standards it's unlikely the "Nation's Art Museum" would actually be classified as an art museum since it was not much larger than a small hotel meeting room, but it hit a home run with me because it was filled with Marc Chagall paintings, ...
Tehran - Hey Can Someone Let Me In???
... traffic. When we were within a few blocks of the palace, we got out of the car and walked to avoid the congestion.
The Golestan Palace is the oldest historic monument in Tehran, is know as the Place of Flowers and consists of a series of buildings which at one time sat within the walls of Tehran's historic Arg (citadel). The present buildings were constructed over 400 years ago.
Each building was unique in its own right, but by far the ...
Been Through The Desert On A Bike With No Name
Okay I'm not actually certain it was a desert I 'been' through, and yes my bike had a name at one point... though I no longer call it by that, so the title sticks. I couldn't resist...Neil Young is a genius! My strange way of paying hommage to him.
A herd of Goats and a baby Scorpion
A few nights ago, just after hitting the sack in my tent in the middle of a desserty field about a kilometre off the highway some 200 kms from Tehran, a large herd ...
Tehran Arrival!
... class, and an unbelievably wealthy class who all call the city home, and who live just a subway ride away from each other. He also said that the sanctions on Iran may not be visible for me, but people do feel it in their everyday lives. With a very weak rial, imports have become quite expensive for regular Iranians.
He also expressed his desire to live and work in America, a desire that I found quite strange as Iranians ...