Hotel Tehran

... end up liking it, then you need a month or two Iran Highlights: · Spent over a week enjoying life in Tehran. It's modern by Iranian standards. Most women dress like their Western counterparts (plus the head scarf of course) · ...

... Ms Pari confirmed that she had been able to sort out the confusion with our air tickets to Dubai and would deliver them to our Tehran hotel that evening. We were both relieved and grateful. It would have been awful to miss out on our one-day stay in ...

... airport by a driver from the tour company I had applied for my visa with, and headed off for my hotel off Amir Kabir Street in southern Tehran. From the airport to Tehran was a stretch of farmland, cell phone advertisements, and we passed the mausoleum ...

... on. Make up. Oh! The shock of it all. Steve and Gisella were welcomed like royalty (well, whatever passes for royalty in Tehran), even though they had only just been to the Cafe the previous day for the first time. After eating we headed downstairs to ...

... for undefined time, after Iran to India, and then he did not know. The German guy was student, and started a 5 month at Tehran University to learn Persian. The British guys have been on 6 and 8 week holidays, and after Iran both independently want head ...

... , so Des put some black tape over the slot before he went to bed. It was agreed that we should look for a hotel in Karaj and take a train into Tehran to get the visas. We stopped to ask where a hotel was so many times it would have been quicker to ...

... then in the media. No, I do not wanna stay here for long Yes, the people are very friendly No, I did not feel uncomfortable in Tehran, except the air pollution So, what did we do in Tehran: We have finished two days of Tehran. Two days where we have seen ...

... a very funny experience because it was clear that they wanted to let me in but just didn't know the protocol.   Tehran has been pretty quiet since this is their big New Year holiday and everyone is either traveling or home with family and ...

... took 8 stops and about 25 minutes. Firstly I was visiting Iman Khomeini Mosque which is an absolutely enormous mosque on the outskirtsof Tehran. It's where the father of the Revolution, Iman Khomeini is buried. He spent the 70s in exile in Iraq and ...

... I checked out of the hotel early, took a cab to the airport and waited five hours before I boarded the plane back to Tehran. The flight was packed with sweaty men and burka-clad ladies. A mother held her severely deformed boy throughout the flight, his ...

... museum earlier an American Iranian started chatting to me. He gave me his mobile number and invited me to a party tonight in North Tehran at 7pm. I don't think I'm going to go on my own so unless I can find someone else to come (looking unlikely, think ...

... . Everywhere people say hello to us, welcome us, even invite us home and pay for cakes we buy in a shop. This afternoon in Tehran, as a group of us went walking in a park and were invited to play volleyball. So far we have been absorbing the local ...

... to take them to but they said they had something else in mind. I was fine with that. So we ended up driving around Tehran for about 2 hours. I was wondering if we were even going to go out to eat. It felt like Shayse was more interested in demonstrating ...

... subway station and not too far away from the big bazaar. I chose it for its convenience as my one-day base in Tehran. The hotel is a 5-storey concrete box of 1970s vintage. The young woman at the front desk looked stunned as I walked in, never peeling ...

... I took the underground (a very civilized, pleasant experience) into downtown to do some sightseeing. We visited the gigantic Tehran bazaar, which housed what seemed like everything under the sun. The small alleyways were divided into product specifics ...

... to smuggle beer across the border because, unlike spirits, it can't be disguised in water bottles. There is nothing spectacular about Tehran other than the traffic and the smog (and the Anti-American murals on the walls of the former U.S ...

... I already knew the drill. All I had to do was to head to the taxi ticket kiosk, name my destination and pay the official price. Soon I found myself being navigated through death-defying traffic of Tehran toward Hotel Arman, near the Imam Khomeini ...

... of Mexico City and Manila. Spending hours transferring from embassy to embassy was exhausting but fortunately fruitful. Tehran encompasses interesting blend of people, especially women, ranging between chador conservatives to fashionable young beauties ...