ZUMZUMZUM- from Romania to Thailand on a bike

Esfahan – shiraz, 485 kilometers in the desert like mountains, straight roads for as far as you can see in the searing heat.

And dragonflies, hundreds of them, swarming over the highway. I always thought that dragonflies live near the water. I was wrong 🙂

We saw probably 50 or 60 dust-devils (some more like baby tornadoes than dust devils) an eerie view for us.

We stopped at pasagardae on the way to shiraz:

Shiraz is much nicer than esfahan. Peaceful and quiet.

We took a stroll in the bazaar:

and the old city:

and then we went to the tomb of Hafez, where we also managed to buy the complete works in english:

In iran 3 people on a bike it’s normal, four it’s current. Here I managed to snap a picture of a happy family:

As a city, Esfahan doesn’t really have the magic I was hoping for. Our timing was not so good either because we went to Esfahan on a holiday and the last weekend before the beginning of the schools so the city was very crowded.

Anyway the mosques more than compensate the crowded city and the heat. Especially the Sheikh Lofollah, left us speechless, this is truly a perfect building 🙂

Jameh mosque:

dinner on a rooftop in Imam square:

around esfahan:

and finally the lofollah mosque:

The iranians seem to have a lot less entrepeneurial spirit than the turks, they don’t like to bargain, they don’t sell water and souvenirs near the tourist sites etc… just as an example the ticket to the lofollah mosque is 3000IRL (for non-muslims only), the ticket to the armenian cathedral is 30.000IRL (for everybody) 🙂 .

on a small detour from the road from kashan to esfahan you can find the small mountain village of abyaneh. This is probably the most photographed village in Iran (either abyaneh or masuleh).

well, it’s nice, in a tourism poster kind of way 🙂

here are the obligatory photos

aveti careva idee ce-am mincat ?

va mai dau niste indicii…sint mai mici decit niste boabe de fasole, sint prajite, gustul e cam ca de aluna dar sint mult mai crocante. nu stim cum se cheama dar sint bune 🙂

niatza,

Dimineata am dat o tura prin bazar,

am baut un ceai si un biscuite la nevastuica vesela 🙂

mai erau si niste borcane delicioase cu niste serpisori inauntru…

am luat o pauza de mutat bagaje in alta camera pentru ca omuletzul de la hotel nu a gasit o camera pt 2 nopti, una pentru una, alta pentru alta 🙂

si am luat si moto la plimbare pe la casele frumoase din epoca de glorie a kashanului.

chiar sint super frumoase, din strada nu se vede mare lucru, sint doar niste porti cu”sonerie” separata pentru fiecare sex si apoi pe un culoar mic ajungi la citamai casutza 🙂 . Apartineau unor negustori de varii pinzeturi sau alte cele si cred ca adaposteau umilele familii de 200 de suflete .

cam atit, foarte dragut acest Kashan, mai putin seara cind se superaglomereaza si se inghesuie toti si se aude o muzica usor obositoare … toare tare

vapuppa