Travel Journal Overview: I’d grown an aversion to tourists. Day trippers from India, hippies, and hashish smokers. This in turn started to annoy me, I was nearing India, and knew there would be more. I slept as well as one could expect. 8 beds remained empty that night, and I wondered why the idiot in reception …
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Into the Iranian Desert in Yazd, wrapping things up, and preparing for Pakistan
Travel Journal Overview: A desert loop trip outside of Yazd with mud citadels, mosques and wild dogs. More towers of silence climbing and saying goodbye to Christine. It was nearly time for me to leave … With a full group of four, Christine, Mark, Dmitri and myself decided to head off on LP’s recommended Desert …
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Getting to know Yazd, and my travel partner
Travel Journal Overview: Yazd was soon becoming my favorite place in Iran. The people were friendly, the sights were great as I finally got to see real Zoroastrian fire temples. And, I was meeting new people. I was also getting to learn more about Christine, she was smarter than most gave her credit for. Breakfast …
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End of the tour, shaking minarets, an Armenian Church, the 33 arch bridge
Travel Journal Overview:A rather strange cultural scene with shaking minarets, the best church I’ve come across in my travels and back to those bridges Next up on the whistle stop tour: The Shaking Minarets, surely a highlight in many Iranian Tourists itinerary. At 11am a Mosque care taker would emerge on the roof, proceed to …
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Iranian nose jobs, Jameh Mosque and Zoroastrian fire temples.
Travel Journal Overview: My first introduction to Iranian nose jobs, yes they are common. The wonderful Jameh Mosque. My first but not last Zoroastrian fire temple. Iranian tours to meet some Iranians? I made it to the travel agent by 9am, after a rushed beefburger and bipsi breakfast. I was greeted by a solitary …
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Finding things to do in Esfahan
Travel Journal Overview: Making the best of it in Esfahan I decide to visit the “Half a World Away” place that is the center of Isfahan. It would not be the only place I’d end up describing as such. I slept until 10am, mainly to avoid the mass of Iranian tourists that descended upon the …
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Arriving in Istanbul, an old city on the cusp of European life
Travel Journal Overview: I should have guessed better. But my first impressions of Turkey were not old school. They were of Istanbul’s thriving tourist trade, then again, it was the middle of Ramadan. After climbing up the hill to Old Sultanahmet we arrived at the hostel our French friend had recommended…well not exactly but it …
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