Sunday, 22. May 2011
Iran: Arriving at Teheran
javatux, 22:39h
At the moment of this writing I'm at Kermanshah, a city in the south of Iran with about 600,000 inhabitants. The hotel here (Grand Azedgan) has internet access but the Iranian keyboard is a little bit unusual for me.
One week ago we (a small group of 7 persons with me) arrived at the airport of Teheran. The local time here is 2.5 hours before ours and I need over an hour to adjust my watch. At the airport we were well received by the sister and niece of our tour guide and friend.
The first day we use the taxi to visit Teheran. The Iranian way to drive by car is much different from Germany because each centimeter of the road is used for driving. It is not unusual that for a road with two lanes three cars drives side by side. It is like driving in Italy but with more traffic on a smaller area. But my biggest care was that I loose our leader (who is born in Iran) because we must use two taxis. If that would had been happened I would be completely lost in Teheran and could not write this lines here now.
The first evening the sister of our leader organized a party for us where we had the opportunity to get some Iranian people to know. They are very interested to know what we think about them and are open-minded about other cultures. And they know how to party.
Teheran has about 15 million inhabitants and normally there is smog over the city. But we are lucky and got some rain here also it does not rain in Teheran (Jahan said). So the air was clearer than normal and we had a good view on Teheran when we go uphill on the surrounding mountains.
These were the first two days in Teheran. More will follow at the next internet access point...
Next section: Teheran - Masuleh
One week ago we (a small group of 7 persons with me) arrived at the airport of Teheran. The local time here is 2.5 hours before ours and I need over an hour to adjust my watch. At the airport we were well received by the sister and niece of our tour guide and friend.The first day we use the taxi to visit Teheran. The Iranian way to drive by car is much different from Germany because each centimeter of the road is used for driving. It is not unusual that for a road with two lanes three cars drives side by side. It is like driving in Italy but with more traffic on a smaller area. But my biggest care was that I loose our leader (who is born in Iran) because we must use two taxis. If that would had been happened I would be completely lost in Teheran and could not write this lines here now.
The first evening the sister of our leader organized a party for us where we had the opportunity to get some Iranian people to know. They are very interested to know what we think about them and are open-minded about other cultures. And they know how to party.
Teheran has about 15 million inhabitants and normally there is smog over the city. But we are lucky and got some rain here also it does not rain in Teheran (Jahan said). So the air was clearer than normal and we had a good view on Teheran when we go uphill on the surrounding mountains.
These were the first two days in Teheran. More will follow at the next internet access point...
Next section: Teheran - Masuleh
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