Tuesday, 24. May 2011
Iran: Kandovan - Merivan
oboehm, 09:37h
Continued from: Masuleh - Kandovan
I'm now sitting in a small office at the BabaTaher Hotel in Hamedan, which can be also used by the guests for the internet access. But let me continue with our trip.
From Kandovan we started later as expected because there was a Windows / Excel problem - our bill was much to high and it costs our guide some discussion to solve this problem. So we started over one hour later as planned.
Our first station was the Orumiyeh Lake to take pictures from it. This lake is a salt lake and has changed his color since two years from deep blue to red because of the algae. The people from there guess, that the lake will be dead in a few years.
In the Kurdish area we visit the Sahoolan Historical Water Cave, a big cave which were used about 2000 years ago. Before we reached it we drove through a big gate (see photo) - don't know for what it is but it remembers me at Stargate. Characteristic for this cave was a big transmission tower in the middle of the cave - there is no place in Iran where you get no signal for your mobile phone.
Later in the afternoon the number of police station increased because we were now driving through smugglers area. And we also were able to see how a normal road with two lanes could be expanded temporarily to three lanes for a passing maneuver.
Next section: Merivan - Kermanshah
I'm now sitting in a small office at the BabaTaher Hotel in Hamedan, which can be also used by the guests for the internet access. But let me continue with our trip.
From Kandovan we started later as expected because there was a Windows / Excel problem - our bill was much to high and it costs our guide some discussion to solve this problem. So we started over one hour later as planned.
Our first station was the Orumiyeh Lake to take pictures from it. This lake is a salt lake and has changed his color since two years from deep blue to red because of the algae. The people from there guess, that the lake will be dead in a few years.In the Kurdish area we visit the Sahoolan Historical Water Cave, a big cave which were used about 2000 years ago. Before we reached it we drove through a big gate (see photo) - don't know for what it is but it remembers me at Stargate. Characteristic for this cave was a big transmission tower in the middle of the cave - there is no place in Iran where you get no signal for your mobile phone.Later in the afternoon the number of police station increased because we were now driving through smugglers area. And we also were able to see how a normal road with two lanes could be expanded temporarily to three lanes for a passing maneuver.
Next section: Merivan - Kermanshah
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