Visiting the Grave..Paying Homage to the Great Persian Poets

After our late lunch in a resto near Persepolis, we headed back to the city of Shiraz to visit another famous tourist spot. The Garden of Hafez and Saadi

(The tomb of Hafez)























As per Persian culture, they have prepared the tomb of Hafez with beautiful and well manicured garden.

(Interpreter!!!!)

(The golden libingan of Hafez)

When we visit the place, even at 4:00pm, a lot of people was still in the garden. The place is very much crowded, and since we're the only east asian in the throngs of people a lot of them we're looking at us. Tourist!!!

A must do here in the Tomb of Hafez is to touch the golden tomb. Since there's a lot of people who want to touch it i Just laid my finger on it and went away. Ayoko nga makipagsiksikan just to touch the tomb. =P

Since the concentration of people was in the tomb, I just help myself taking my pictures in the garden.

(me and the flowers..hehehe)

(i need an interpreter!)

(huh?asan?)

A cute tyke was playing near where we stand. We took picture of him, while his parents was looking. The kid is just so cute =D.

Another young boy ask us to take picture with him. We feel like a celebrity having our picture taken by many people. Hahaha. The family was so happy as well.

On to the next garden!!!

Next on the lsit was the Garden of Saadi. It's a 15 minute drive from the last garden. This is much bigger than the tomb of Hafez, it has underground restaurant and a lot of ponds with fishes.

(where's the fish???)

(dami parin tao kahit late na)

(gotcha!)

(touch the tomb again!)

(family day at the park...este garden)

(door leading to the tomb)

(gardens..gardens..everywhere)

(entrance of the underground resto in the garden)

One thing that really struck me about this place was the beautiful mosaic ceiling of the underground resto. It's so Persian!

And they had another underground pond inside, with fishes again.Galing!

And since we've been walking from afternoon till nightime, we refresh ourself by ordering an traditional Persian ice cream. The ice cream is made of sotanghon (yep, the chinese sotanghon you buy at the market) plus ice plus sweeteners. The people love it, but me, yaiks! And we tried to converse with some Iranian women, very nice of them to talk to us =D.

(me, jasper and our driver with his girlfriend)



















After the tiring evening, we went our way to the famous restaurant in downtown Shiraz. It was fun to visit this famous place. Really appreciate the Persian history and cultures.




















Bye!