An Easy Day in Tehran, Jumping in a Gypsy Cab
I woke up uncharacteristically late, it is a Sunday after all, and I finally have absolutely nothing I need to do. On trips like these, that’s a rare thing indeed, so I leisurely read the Tehran Times (lots of photos of Mr President grinning and accepting awards), and ate my […]
Tehran’s Saad Abad and the Crown Jewels
Tehran has a population estimated at between 8 and 12 million, and sprawls out from the north, butted up against Damovan mountain with lots of snow and a cablecar to the top, spreading and growing every year far, far out. I was told that North Tehran, where the shah once […]
Picnic Time at a Desert Fortress
The mosque in Aran, Iran, the complex dominates the dusty town, south of Qom the most holy city of Iran. We stopped at a caravansary, a fortress built 400 years ago to defend the camel caravans along this important trading route. Iranians took the Friday holiday to picnic on the […]
A Day in the Desert: A Chance to Get Away
We left the hotel at five am yesterday, to meet a bus full of Tehranians and take an excursion out into the desert. The bus rolled through the light traffic of central Tehran and out into an exquisitely flat open road, unbroken by anything except distant hills, we were bound […]
Mobile Dance Party en route to Tehran
In Iran there are no dance clubs, but of course, Iranians love to dance. So on our way home from our day-long trip into the desert, they cranked up the funky Iranian dance musik and we took turns boogie-ing in the aisles as the bus rolled the long way back […]
Tehran’s Raucus Thursday Night Drive Time
The Faces of Iran: No, I’m Not at All Afraid
Every Country is Different, That’s What Makes it Fun
I love the little differences between countries, that’s what makes each one special. A few things here that are funny are that the soda cans have those pop off tops we used to collect and string together when we were little kids. Inexplicably, some sodas and the fake beer that […]