We leave our camp in Assaluyeh 2:00pm Thursday doing only half day in the office. Friday is holy day in Iran (like Sunday here in Philippines)but still we came to work as well (sayang O.T.). and Saturday is national holiday in iran (and yet we still went to work, o.t. again!). That's our itinerary actually, leave the camp by Thursday afternoon and return back to camp by Saturday evening.
We have 3 cars, and each car has 5 passengers (including driver). I was grouped with the younger guys (best buddy Jasper include). The trip from Assaluyeh to Shiraz (the main city before Persepolis, and where our gracious host is located) is 12 hours! I'ts very uncomfortable sitting on a Toyota corolla because it doesn't have enough space to move on (plus the fact that my friends are slightly chubby persons!).
First stop of the trip was Kangan, 50kms from Assulyeh. We need to stop here to buy snacks and to go to washroom. Nothing much was to be seen here except the store that sells gold jewelry. Jewelry sshopping is a must in Kangan for they had the famous iranian Gold (or something to that effect) on a very low price. No, we did not buy gold when we pass this place since the stores are located in the southwest portion of the city, near the sea actually.
After snacks and freshen up, we endure the 10 ten hour drive on the Iranian countryside, vast desserts, wide highways that traverse the Zagros Mountains, beautiful oasis, quite countryside and a lot of sheeps and goats!
(Actually during the whole trip, i was praying the rosary because the driver drives very very fast! You can't blame them, they have 6 lanes road, asphalt and lubak free highway and no traffic!)
It was 10:00 pm when we had out dinner in a restaurant somewhere along the way. The place is great because it's situated on the top of the mountain (ala baguio) so it's cold, and we buy fresh kiwis, pistacios, apples and grapes. The usual specialty of every iranian resto is KEBAB,whether chicken or beef it still delicious,
and that what we've ordered.This is the start pala of our KEBAB diet since we've aten kebab during the whole duration of our travel. Notice the wall design of the resto,they are very fond of decorating their wall with tiles with drawing.
Yes the same tile we use in our washroom but with very colorful and intricate design naman.
After dinner we continue our journey again to Shiraz and after 2 hours we finally made it to the house in Shiraz. After some pleasant greetings and some hello to the owner, we decided to sleep and be ready for the next day, after all we have a whole
palace to visit tomorrow =D.
2 comments:
yahoo! i felt like i was actually roadtrippin.
very scenic views from the road and looks like it can rival the grand canyon's hilly scape.
the photos also shows how happy you were when you were there.
hahaha.yes im always happy when we're stopping. coz the driver really scary the wits out of me (ala schumacher he is when he's driving!).
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