Tehran Hotels - Reviews and Rates

After 2 nights in a skanky hotel in the middle of the dusty, polluted spare car-parts district of southern Tehran, we seized the opportunity to take Nazli up on her kind offer and gave her a call. Luckily she sounded delighted and two hours later we moved our clobber into her ground floor flat in central Tehran, far away from the gear boxes and ...

next the border between armenia and iran. i posted the following on the thorn tree travel forum website as 'a point of interest': ********* so six months ago when i arrived home from the last trip, complete with an israeli stamp in my passport (its a long story, don't ask), before applying for a new passport so i could come to iran, i decided to...

04.09.06: Back to the hectic Iranian capital, but I am glad to be here now. Mostly because I can spend all my time in the bazaar looking for THE carpet and go to nice museums again. And thanks to the great help from the Brazilian Embassy (and a special thanks to Marjoneh) my passport is in safe hands again and I can have it back tomorrow. 10.09....

Okay....so Tehran: The city of upheavals, riots, revolutions, oppression....the den or center of the so called "axis of evil". However, I found the city to be a fairly calm (well, much calmer than Cairo at least), friendly, warm, severely polluted, and somewhat of a dull place. Not exactly as expected, but while I was there, I saw some cool stuf...

I came to Iran hoping to learn more about Islam but never for the moment believing that I would return home with all the answers. And that is exactly what has happened...in fact, I have even more questions now. In addition, I was also exposed to the mystic dervishes in this country which has also been very interesting as I feel I am more of a sp...