Yazd Hotel

... way - Its the city that tries to be everything and have everything. From the biggest mall in the world, a sky field in a shopping center,the only 7star hotel in the world,the tallest dancing waterfall, to the most tasteless buildings in the world ...

... thinking to myself this could be heaven or this could be hell...." Welcome to the Hotel California. Such a lovely place, such a lovely place......" Well, fortunately Yazd was a lovely city. Perhaps not quite heaven but definitely not hell. I think ...

... place with many wonderful sights in a relatively cosmopolitan setting. I'd used my loaf and reserved a single room at the Silk Road Hotel in Yazd, and all I can say is that I'm glad I did, 'cos quite simply this is by far the nicest place I've stayed ...

... bus we had caught out of Kashan. We grabbed a Paykan from the bus station, and made our way to the Silk Road Hotel, another boutique B&B recommended by the Lonely Planet. Southern Iran, and Yazd in particular, is renowned for having the best, and ...

... to know more about Zoroastrimism, see below! Another day or two was spent relaxing in the Silk Road Hotel and Yazd before heading north, to Kerman and Masshad. Zoroastrium Religion Zoroastrianism is the oldest of the revealed world-religions, ...

... Road Hotel in my rudimentary Farsi, but he does not know or do not understand my terrible Persian. Instead of looking for my hotel, the mellow light took me away from my goal, forgot my tiredness and started exploring the magical surrounding. The dawn is ...

... Arrived in Yazd which is about 300km from Shiraz on Tuesday afternoon. Met an Italian guy on the bus. He was staying in a really expensive hotel on the outskirts of the city so left my bags at his place as I wasn't sure where I was staying. We walked into ...

... - very picturesque!! But I guess the highlight of my stay here was the very nice travelers I met at the delightful Silk Road Hotel. It was wonderful to talk to tourists like me after traveling so long on my own. It is very enriching to meet people from ...

... is known as a desert city, a UNESCO heritage site, and we're staying in the old part of the city in a very charming old hotel that has a big interior courtyard with a fountain, and the rooms surround the courtyard.  The old city is a maze of small ...

... at dusk. It's pretty cold outside now, some of the ice on the river didn't thaw at all today. I'm avoiding going back to my hotel as I can't turn the heating off and the room is like a furnace! The shopping centre where I found this internet cafe also has ...

... for one night. Nothing special there, so no story. After the long journey throught the desert, wie break at a mosque, we arrived late Yazd. This city is part of the UNESCO world heritage. It is build out of mud bricks, and covered with mud. The old town ...

... headed back to the hotel to check in we discovered some of the nicest accommodation we had seen so far in Iran. The hotel was a traditional middle eastern courtyard type affair, 2 floors of rooms surrounding a central courtyard with a fountain etc. After ...

... we were walking back towards the hotel we came across the Fahader Museum hotel, which is excellent. It is a (expensive) functioning hotel, but is within an old palace, and still has a functioning bagdir (windtower), an ancient air conditioning unit which ...

... , some with interesting names such as 'Dead Man's Alley' and 'No Alley'. The Malek actually turned out to be the oldest tourist hotel in Yazd. It is about 200yrs old and we were able to have a wander around inside. Yazd is famous for it's wind chimneys ...