Narelle and I would like to invite you to follow our trip to the Middle East this March and April. We hope you enjoy the blogs we post as we travel around this beautiful part of the world.

Saturday 13 April 2013

On the road to Yazd

We met this guy yesterday who is cycling from NW Iran to SE Iran for fun and to promote cycling in a country that has very few cyclists. The 20 year old is taking a few months and will cover 3500 km through some of the most inhospitable places on Earth. You can read more about his wonderful achievement here: www.greenbike.ir

From our unique desert hotel to Yazd took about an hour. This is the site that greeted us!

The wind cooling towers above the city's underground water storages
A stop for lunch and I got to taste the speciality if the region...date icecream shake...very nice
Who said you can't get beer in Iran...?
We have had a few opportunities to explore the higher reaches of the mosques including this on in the middle of Yazd.
Wonderfully lit up just after the days final prayer

 

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

The Label says non-alcoholic beer. Did you taste it?

Gary

Anonymous said...

It's around 1,000km from Kaman to Tehran - that's a lot of desert. Are you going there via the "fast" or "slow" route?

Gary