Iran 2019

We were there in 2018, an amazing country with the friendliest people. Your photos bring back many memories, thank you

In the Persepolis country, the local Harem Xerkses is paid, but we do not have money with us, so we leave the cash desk, then a guest from the service calls us and after a short conversation he lets us in without a ticket. colleagues have written here many times that the Persians are very nice and if they find out that we are from Lachestan ( that's what they call Poland) , smiles do not come off their faces and somehow open up more.











We meet a few "whites" in strange motorcycle t-shirts, it turns out that they are 38 retirees from Paris who after a month of driving arrived in Iran and travel and visit. They have a rather neat support in the form of a bus and a 4x4 "garbage truck" to collect equipment that has fallen on the way, they just brought a BMW and NAT

Yep, this was us...

"Interesting facts about the Iranian rial

The currency in Iran is not only riyals, but also tomans and khomeini. For example, exchanging 200 US dollars, you will get 6 million rials (we got 12 million for $ 100), and when buying a car you have to pay about 200 million rials. Therefore, the inhabitants of Iran, to simplify the conversion a bit, introduced tomans. And so, 10,000 rials is the equivalent of one thousand tomans. Apparently, this is a solution that makes it easier, but in stores, for example, prices are given as the seller wishes, which is very confusing for the customer. In addition, Khomeini are also used, which in turn can be converted into tomans. 500 thousand so riyals are 50 thousand. Tomans and 50 Khomeini. It is also difficult for a western tourist to learn that prices are written in Arabic. "

From Persepolis we go to Shiraz, make a mistake again and enter the city after dark. There are no places in the first two hotels, but the receptionist from the latter calls another hotel and the places are in the "Persepolis" hotel. We embrace the city.

https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sziraz

In the evening at the hotel, we agree and unanimously choose that it is Krzysztof who is going to the pink mosque in the morning to take photos at sunrise....ok I wanted to sleep longer

https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/R%C3%B3%C5%BCowy_Meczet

We go to breakfast and then visit Shiraz during the day.

The first is the Vakil Mosque.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vakil_Mosque

Curious as to the meaning of that staircase?? Keep up the great RR!!

answer for your question ( at the bottom of the page)

https://www.welcometoiran.com/vakil-mosque/

^ Thanks!

Walking around the city, we found an interesting mosque. It intrigued us because it was quite strongly fenced with numerous gates with an entrance only for the faithful. When we had to let go, we found an entrance for foreigners. We were stopped at the gate and asked to wait a few minutes for the guide to come. As it turned out, the entrance and the guide were for free. It is strange that the mosque was not described anywhere in our guides and turned out to be the coolest of all.

His name is Shah Cheragh, but the locals say the Mirror Mosque.

In the mosque, photos can only be taken by phone.

I ask our guide why there is a Koran in hotels and there is always a cube of some stone with it. It turns out that it depends on the region, in some Muslim countries such as Tunisia, Morocco, during prayers, during a bend (I do not know what it is professionally called), forehead contact with the carpet is allowed, but in other Muslim countries, Iran and Iraq are also mentioned ... Germany and France, this stone serves as a link, contact with the ground. Yes, this is how he listed these countries as Muslim

Just to illustrate the Pink Mosque

Then we go to the Pink Mosque, the most important tourist attraction of Shiraz.

http://www.odkrywamyinterior.pl/wschod/iran/shiraz/

Continue exploring Shiraz.


We go to the gardens of Eram

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eram_Garden





On the way, we are accosted by two teenagers in the park and word to word it turns out that they have escaped from Afghanistan. They offer us amphetamines, we politely say no and we screw them up as quickly as possible

Tomb of Hafez

https://pl.tripadvisor.com/Attracti...views-Tomb_of_Hafez-Shiraz_Fars_Province.html

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hafez






On our way out, a guy who used to be a tourist guide gets us, but unfortunately, due to Trump's policy, he lost his job (we met a few people like that), ther is not too many tourists. Generally people are complaining about Trump and his politics and not about the USA as a whole, I have the impression that, in fact, they dream of living like the Americans.

Another photos from Shiraz

This report is great! Thanks for the photos.

Generally you will likely find Iranians complain just as much about the policies of their own government as they do about another.

Iran pre-Revolution (1979) was very westernised. Maybe they just want to go back to the "good ole days"

Our dinner







It takes some time at the hotel reception, the receptionist has a problem with converting all those millions.

Motorcycles are already waiting on the marbles

So we're going towards the city of Jazd



On the way, we stop in the town to see an old fridge.





Then comes a bus with French tourists, i want to make them happy so i decide to make the wheel, but of course I forgot that I didn't put on the glasses that I hung on the fairing of course the glasses are falling, the police car is behind me, i not coming back