Archive for 'Shiraz'
iran during ramadan and a diplomatic nuclear crisis - what a week!
Days 80-89: For something completely different, we visited Iran for ten days. (Links in this entry go to my other posts about Iran.)
Despite evident concern of friends and family that Iran would not be safe to visit, to the contrary we found that Iran was an easy place to travel and the people the most […]
Posted: October 7th, 2007 under Iran, Tehran, Yazd, Shiraz, Esfahan.
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flying in the name of god
Day 89: Kate boards the Iran Air Fokker 100. We took three such flights: Tehran to Yazd, Shiraz to Esfahan and Esfahan to Tehran, and flew in a Fokker 100 each time. Air travel in Iran is incredibly inexpensive by international standards. None of our flights set us back more than $30, and each replaced […]
Posted: October 3rd, 2007 under Iran, Flights, Bus, Photos, Tehran, Yazd, Shiraz, Esfahan.
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a memorable emerald mirrored mausoleum (try saying that quickly 5 times)
Day 84: The southern city of Shiraz was our jumping off point for the greatest of Persian archeological sites, Persepolis. We were also able to visit two magnificent mirrored tombs, only one of which (the Imamzadeh-ye Ali Ebn-e Hamze) was photographable.
The other, the Mausoleum of Shah-e Cheragh, took a bit of getting into. […]
Posted: September 29th, 2007 under Iran, Photos, Shiraz.
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