Sunday, 12. June 2011
Iran Trip Reviewed
oboehm, 16:37h
Last weekend we came back from Tehran. The articles in this blog are not in-time with the displayed blog-date because in the beginning we had no internet access. The real dates were (Gregorian calendar):
Length of the whole trip: about 5300 km
The most often heard question of our trip was "What do you think about Tehran?" followed by "Do you think we are terrorists?". The answer to the second question is easy: no!
The answer to the first question is not so easy. The first contact with Iran was the passport check at the airport in Tehran. And here I had a strange feeling because the officer there looked not very happy. But inside the country the people and even the policemen were friendly to us.
Iran had a great history. But I'm not sure if the Iranian itself are aware of their past. That was my impression after some visits of the museums. Also the architecture in the past seemed to be much "modern" than today. At that time the architects know how to keep a house cool without all the electrican equipments we now had. These knowledge seems to be lost :-(
There are areas in the Iran where you find no plastic bag or other garbage beside the road. Unfortunately this is the exceptional case. Iran is such a lovely country and it makes me sad to see the pollution of the environment.
"We should judge the country after the people and not by the government!" This was also a sentence we heard more often. It seems that the government and the Revolutionary Guards are very unpopular for the normal people. You can find many forbidden books or songs in the bazaars or shops. And some laws as the prohibition of the water pipe are not respected.
There is a different between "Iranian" time and our time: not only another timezone (2.5 hours later) or year (1390 AH), no, also another meanig: e.g. 9 o' clock means "perhaps 9:30". But the Iranian people have something we had lost in Germany - time!
I had no idea about the Iran when I started our trip. But I enjoyed it really and was happy to made it. There were so many friendly people we met. Some emails from Iran reached me in the meantime - some emails may be blocked by the spam filter of my provider (try it again - sometimes they reach me).
| 15. + 16. May | Arriving at Teheran |
| 17. + 18. May | Tehran - Masuleh |
| 19. + 20. May | Masuleh - Kandovan |
| Sat 21. May | Kandovan - Merivan |
| Sun 22. May | Merivan - Kermanshah |
| Mon 23. May | Kermanshah - Hamadan |
| Thu 24. May | Hamadan - Isfahan |
| 25. + 26. May | Isfahan |
| Fri 27. May | Isfahan - Persepolis - Shiraz |
| Sat 28. May | Shiraz |
| Sun 29. May | Shiraz - Yazd |
| Mon 30. May | Yazd |
| Tue 31. May | Yazd - Abyaneh |
| Wed 1. June | Abyaneh - Tehran |
| Thu 2. June | Tehran - Stuttgart |
Length of the whole trip: about 5300 km
The most often heard question of our trip was "What do you think about Tehran?" followed by "Do you think we are terrorists?". The answer to the second question is easy: no!
The answer to the first question is not so easy. The first contact with Iran was the passport check at the airport in Tehran. And here I had a strange feeling because the officer there looked not very happy. But inside the country the people and even the policemen were friendly to us.
Iran had a great history. But I'm not sure if the Iranian itself are aware of their past. That was my impression after some visits of the museums. Also the architecture in the past seemed to be much "modern" than today. At that time the architects know how to keep a house cool without all the electrican equipments we now had. These knowledge seems to be lost :-(
There are areas in the Iran where you find no plastic bag or other garbage beside the road. Unfortunately this is the exceptional case. Iran is such a lovely country and it makes me sad to see the pollution of the environment.
"We should judge the country after the people and not by the government!" This was also a sentence we heard more often. It seems that the government and the Revolutionary Guards are very unpopular for the normal people. You can find many forbidden books or songs in the bazaars or shops. And some laws as the prohibition of the water pipe are not respected.
There is a different between "Iranian" time and our time: not only another timezone (2.5 hours later) or year (1390 AH), no, also another meanig: e.g. 9 o' clock means "perhaps 9:30". But the Iranian people have something we had lost in Germany - time!
I had no idea about the Iran when I started our trip. But I enjoyed it really and was happy to made it. There were so many friendly people we met. Some emails from Iran reached me in the meantime - some emails may be blocked by the spam filter of my provider (try it again - sometimes they reach me).
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