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Ancient Persia, Modern Iran
Follow along with MIR Corporation Tour Specialist Meaghan Samuels as she explores beautiful and enigmatic Iran on MIR's Ancient Persia, Modern Iran small group tour.
- Day 1: Arrival in Tehran
- Day 2: Tehran
- Days 3-4: Tehran, Bandar-e Anzali, Masuleh Village
- Day 5: Tehran, Yazd
- Day 6: Yazd
- Days 7-8: Yazd, Kerman
- Days 9-10: Kerman, Shiraz, Persepolis
- Days 11-12: Shiraz, Firuzabad, Yasuj
- Day 13: Yasuj, Isfahan
- Day 14: Isfahan, Tehran
Days 7-8: Yazd, Kerman
April 12-13, 2008
The next morning we begin our long drive to Kerman. Along the way we make several stops, including a roadside pistachio stand. Here we find huge bins full of pistachios of a variety of colors and sizes. Many of them are flavored with saffron or just salt. There are red, green, yellow, plain roasted, heavy salt, light salt, jumbo and smaller varieties. Most of us re-board the bus with large bags of pistachio loot.
Upon arrival to Kerman we take some time to rest before making an evening appearance at the local bazaar. We wait to do the bazaar in the evening so that we will arrive during the liveliest hour, when the locals all come to do their shopping. As promised, the bazaar is bustling, and after wandering the corridors between the shops for some time, we stop in a local teahouse for tea and musical entertainment.
The next morning we embark upon an excursion to the very small village of Rayen, to explore the Arg-e-Rayen Citadel. Though the citadel has been basically reconstructed from ruins, it gives us the sense that we are exploring the original structure.
We then drive to Mahan to see the Shahzadeh Gardens. Here we encounter swarms of schoolgirls, who unlike at the White Palace are running around freely, and every single one of them wants to take their picture with us. Many of them ask us for our name and address, they are very friendly outgoing girls, who are not shy about taking the women in our group by the hand asking for pictures with them. In fact they take more pictures of us, than we take of them!
Photos from this leg of the tour (click to enlarge):
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