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  • Leaving tomorrow So the day for my departure is only hours away.I leave Tehran at 4am sunday since it is cooler and head towards Turkey. I am excited and have everything in order. Panniers(carriers)full with everything one needs to live on and heavy bike. Ladies Posted by colorado43 in Starting point | Jun 2, 2007
  • Finally Well im ready for my travels now. I will be leaving in less than ten days time in the month of june on a crossway8500 Merida bicycle. I have attached front and rear carriers and a whole lot of other equipment will Posted by colorado43 in Starting point | May 30, 2007
  • Iran Thanks to the terrible internet facilities of Eastern Turkey, I have got a lot to catch up on. While Western Turkey is similar to Europe, and certainly more developed than Romania or Bulgaria, the East is completely different. While Ankara Posted by ChrisEvans in London to Sydney 2007 | May 22, 2007
  • To Mashhad (مشهد) After frolicking with camels in the oasis of Garmeh, at about midnight we jumped on a bus packed full of old Chadored women going to Mashhad, Shi'a Islam's holiest site. The bus was very hot and sweaty (which is expected), Posted by Antonxiii in The Nomad | May 13, 2007
  • Garmeh (گرمه) Having heard several reports of a great homestay in the tiny oasis village of Garmeh, we decided to stop there on the way to Mashhad. The Tehrani artist Maziar (whom we didn't meet since his wife was having a baby Posted by ameurice in The Nomad | May 13, 2007
  • Yazd (یزد) II To round off our stay in Yazd, we visited the ominously-named Towers of Silence in the desert suburbs of the city itself. These two wide stone towers were built on two opposing hills between which there were ruins of a Posted by ameurice in The Nomad | May 13, 2007
  • The Desert This is where we stayed in Garmeh, it was prety cool: The salt plains were lethal. The camel could have been there for years, just the salt preserved it: [img=http://www.travellerspoint Posted by Antonxiii in The Nomad | May 13, 2007
  • Yazd (يزد) We made our escape to Yazd by a long and boring bus ride through the desert (one of them, and our first of many), to the aincient town of Yazd. The signs say it has "the oldest old city" that Posted by Antonxiii in The Nomad | May 8, 2007
  • Shiraz (شیراز) Immediate impressions of Shiraz were of an extremely laid-back provincial city with a pleasant climate (about 30C and very dry). The city was home to many of the greatest Persian poets and consequently attracts thousands to the tombs of both Posted by ameurice in The Nomad | May 4, 2007
  • Esfahan (اصفهان) We spent a few days seeing the sights of Esfahan, which were pretty numerous. There was, of course, the Imam square (the locals say its the second biggest square in the world, but its acutally the seventh biggest) and the Posted by Antonxiii in The Nomad | May 4, 2007
  • Esfahan Posted by ameurice in The Nomad | May 3, 2007
  • Comic Interlude Here are some random jokes we have heard so far. Don't hold your breath. Turkey: (We actually heard no jokes, but this is the closest thing to it) Practical joke: Guy runs in to the building and shouts "SALAAM ALEYKUM" as loud Posted by Antonxiii in The Nomad | Apr 29, 2007
  • Into the Belly of the Beast Eventually, we made it out of Tehran and took a bus south, to the small town of Kashan (کاشان), This town was apparently so beautiful, that Shah Abbas I (Abbas the Great) wanted to be buried here. Well. It wasn't Posted by Antonxiii in The Nomad | Apr 28, 2007
  • Tehran Once settled in the Mashhad Hostel (a favorite with cockroaches and mosquitoes!) in the heart of the car parts and hardware district, we set out to explore. Still sore from the rough train ride we boosted our spirits with some Posted by ameurice in The Nomad | Apr 27, 2007
  • To Tehran (تهران) The train ride was an experience. We took second class, so we were packed into a small cupboard with 4 other people, who happened to be fulfill a stereotyped cross-section of Iranian society. There was a Qu'ranic scholar, a soldier, Posted by Antonxiii in The Nomad | Apr 24, 2007
  • Tabriz, Iran Our last morning in Turkey was spent accumulating enough money for the entire duration of our journey through Iran and Turkmenistan, both countries entirely cut off from the international banking system. From Doğubayazıt, we were dropped off by dolmuş at Posted by ameurice in The Nomad | Apr 24, 2007
  • Starting point Hello everybody. My name is Karim and i am planing to take a long bicycle trip for as long as it takes. Until now i have only read about other peoples cycling trips and had a few cyclists around me that talked Posted by colorado43 in Starting point | Feb 11, 2007
  • My Bio I was born and brought up in Iran, a beautiful country full of history. I started taking photos at an early age of my life with a Lubitel, a Russian twin lenses camera. Most of my photos in those days Posted by kombizz in My Observation | Feb 1, 2007
  • My Bio in Farsi عکاسی را از سن ۱۵سالگی شروع کردم. اولین دوربینم دوربین "لوبیتل" روسی که اهدایی پدر و مادرم بود. بیشتر عکس هایم در ان ایام سیاه سفید بود. از زمانی که بیاد دارم عاشق نگاه کردن به عکس های مجلات Posted by kombizz in My Observation | Feb 1, 2007
  • Persepolis - Recreation on Movie Persepolis (Old Persian: 'Parsa', New Persian: تخت جمشید, 'Takht-e Jamshid') was an ancient ceremonial capital of the second Iranian dynasty, the Achaemenid Empire, situated some 70 km northeast of modern city of Shiraz, not far from where the small river Posted by skatoozian in Travelling Iran | Sep 11, 2006
  • Arge Bam in Iran The Arg-é Bam (ارگ بم in Persian, "Bam citadel") was the largest adobe building in the world, located in Bam, a city in the Kerman province of southeastern Iran. It is listed by UNESCO as part of the World Heritage Posted by skatoozian in Travelling Iran | Sep 11, 2006
  • First impressions of traditions through Tabriz Does Tabriz know that it is truly blessed? It may well have the best tourist office in the world. It is certainly the best in Iran, and in point of fact the most helpful of my now extensive travels. Does Posted by caoilte in Aerial Stride | Jul 8, 2006
  • Sugar for tea Iran and Russia have had a troubled modern historical relationship, but there have been a few rewards for towns at the nexus of confrontation. Maku is one such on account of the large frontier force based here near the end Posted by caoilte in Aerial Stride | Jul 6, 2006
  • Turks vS Persians, Kurds vS Everyone I haven't been such a tool in first steps practising language, since I first set foot in Eastern Europe a year ago. Then my lovingly rehearsed intonation of a Slovenian "Goodbye!" was shot down in flames by the bus driver's Posted by caoilte in Aerial Stride | Jul 6, 2006
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