Yazd

I am still in Yazd - The place I stay in is becoming home already - it is very hot, laid back and very nice here. I enjoy to relax and restock after the two weeks of camping. Yesterday I went for a day trip into the mountain. My bike suffered from the rough conditions and my shoe broke :(

Still I am happily enjoying the desert!

together with my biking friends at the tower of Silence - Zoroastrian burial place
@the lesser known tower of silence in the middle of the desert - waiting for the vultures :)
from below

into an unknown valley
getting rough
finally - on A road again!!
the city of Taft

display of wealth - artificial waterfall
the main mosque in Yazd - an architectural masterpiece

Picture update from Yazd

I am in Yazd and I am alone again!

We split up our small travel group yesterday - I made it save through the dessert and now I am here in Yazd doing not much until now :) I will base myself here for some time and explore the surrounding. Then I will most likely head back west - there is little left to go south east anyway.

PS Camping is over :) I will move in a traditional hotel tomorrow - for the time being I have my own apartment.

The pictures are somehow in chronological order and show the way from Hamedan to here.

Bisotun - bas relief
unnamed Madressa
Ali Sadr Cave
this is for Haleh :)
A lake in the middle of no where


Tomb of Daniel
same
Schoolbooks!!
Tagh-e-Bostan
same - this stuff is all really old!!

dinner

Shiraz

Persepolis and around


Iranian Hejab Fashion!

She was part of a student group (architects to be) studying Persepolis

Desert mosque in Abarku

This is for keeping ice in the desert
Goodbye

Yazd

Shiraz!!!

There will be no pictures this time - too slow :( but I can tell you the last week was quite something. It is still the 4 of us and the Mercedes :)
We left Hamadan for Kermanshah, Korram Abad, Susa, Shushtar, Masjed-e Soleiman where we camped on an oilfield, Ize, Yasuj to Shiraz.
This rout is really of the beaten track. Camping is the only way of accommodation - whether its on 3000m at fresh 0 degree or in the lowlands with summery 40.
We are having fun but the group will split soon.
Tomorrow we plan to see Persepolis (Takht-e Jamshid) and Pasargadae then I will most likely head for Yazd 300 km through desert.
Or if I feel like swimming and heat - the Gulf! lets see.

Anyhow it is wonderful here, people are nice, sights are world class.

Iran I

After a log time I am back online.
Philip and I have crossed into Iran without troubles and right in the bus to Sero Border (that's the one close to Hakkari) we met a nice Iranian / Turkish couple.
We have been with them ever since :)

The new travel gang
"No - I don't want to become a Muslim!"
Swimming in lake Orumiye is better then in the dead sea. And it was reasonable warm!
Our host - the father of Medi
Orumiye

The new mod of traveling. We do not know how long we will be together but now it is Hamadan plans made for Esfahan. I am quite happy that we do not have to cycle through this land. long roads, little infrastructure and many hills and mountains.
@Hasnalu

Takht-e Soleiman

One of the reasons I wanted to come back to Iran!

Our Campsite - It had 0 degree in the night - it was so freezing cold in the tent! Camping is fuuuuun!
Soleimans prison - 80 m deep