This little Bird picks your fortune Card

I just wanted to play with the bird

Beautiful Gardens and new friends who want pictures

Gardens

More new friends

Gardens

Lots of these ATMs and banks Everywhere

Lots of Construction

Fun sculptures

Another Iranian wanting a picture…

Fatemeh trying to show us the correct way to pray…she admonished us that she was not completely correct since she had Makeup & Nail Polish…but this gave us an idea

Fatimah showing us the correct way to Pray…with the admonition that she is actually not correct since she has makeup and nail polish on..If you look real hard on the floor at the very end of the rug symbol there is a prayer stone she is praying over…sort of…

Prayer Stone

Prayer Beads(Like Rosaries)

Local Bazaar

Disney and all things Western…Thank you China

Book Maker…

No this is NOT fudge…it’s a very very tart yogurt

Spices everywhere

Ancient Hamam Museum

Note these people are doing things that are NOT ok in Islam…Music…Drinking…

Drinking

Music

More Drinking

Fabulous Tea Room at the market

Tea House

Tea House

Fatemeh serving us some amazing Tea

Best tea Ever!

Tea and Music…

Music

Donation Boxes set up all over

This is an Anti Smoking Ad

Off to the Desert through the Mountains of the South

Picnic in the Mountains

Hiking

Picnicking

Wild Cat seen in the Mountain..Healthiest Stray in Iran

A Businessman we ran into at the Falls

At the falls

Saying Goodbye to Klaus as we take off for yadz and he takes off for 3 months of biking

My friend Klaus from Germany

An Open letter to Young Travelers from the Ayatollah…The REAL Propaganda here is the picture with him SMILING! That is a rarity…(-:

Fabulous Backpacker Hotel in Yadz

Silk Road Hotel at night-common area

Rooftop Restaurant at Silk Road Hotel

A view of my room under the grape

Iranian desert…about 110 degrees at Sunset

Local Cola

A HUGE misconception is that Iran is like Saudi and women don’t drive…Actually most women drive and they are far more aggressive at the wheel than most of the men (-:

Drinking is Illegal in Iran…BUT the selling of Flasks and things related to drinking seems to be OK…Hmmm….

Our lovely Van for Yadz, Kerman, the Desert & Mountain Picnic…and to Esfahan

An Old Film Camera

Gotta Love the Squat Toilets

A door Knocker for women(the round)

A door Knocker for men

Zorastrian Symbol

Zorastrian Fire Temple, Yadz

The Eternal Fire at the Zorastrian Temple…been burning for 1700 years

Zorastrian Fire temple

Zorastrian Cemetery

Zorastrian Tomb Stones

The Male & Female Door Knockers

Zorastrian Tower of Silence(where they would leave dead people and let the elements take care of it

Top of the Zorastrian Tower of Silence…Body Pit

Meeting new friends at Tower of Silence

Yadz

Yadz

Yadz

Yadz

yadz

Orient Hotel Restaurant…

yadz

In the Tower of Silence area, Yadz

Yadz

yadz

yadz

Old Town, Yadz

yadz

yadz

Attending the “ancient” Sport match

Athletes pumping large heavy wooden doors

This little girl was all dressed up for the Sport show…check out her heels!!!

This is the top on the Wind Tower INSIDE the building …the wind is captured and comes down through this fan …and meets up with a water pond and disperses cool air throughout the building…natural ac

This is the small pond that when it has water the wind is drawn in to meet it to create cool air

Driving to Rayen

Some new friends at the Ancient Desert Citadel of Rayen

Check out the Farsi on the Bottlee

A Watermelon break in the Iranian Desert…110 degrees at sunset!

Trying to be artsy by shooting thru a watermelon…OR just too lazy to sit up to shoot the picture…Chances are…the latter is more correct

Homestay House in the Desert town of Shahdad

Homestay bathroom…no shyness there (-:

Home Stay Wife

Home Stay Dad & Vahid, our lovely driver

The Little Boy who hid from us when we came in…until i found him and we ended up playing with the Sticker book I brought as a present.

Getting ready for Dinner

Settling in for the night…Fatimeh and I sharing the floor..

Exploring the Home Stay garden in the morning…Check out the pigeon tower

Pigeon Tower…used for nesting pigeons to capture their poop and use it as fertilizer

Date Palm

On our way to Zeinoddin Carevanserai…through the desert

Desert Gas Station

Zeinoddin Carevanserai-Desert Camel Stop on the Silk Road

Weird Restaurant we went to in the Desert…with all sorts of strange Statues…Pretty Scenery though

Zeinoddin Carevanserai – Desert stop for Camels on the Silk Road

View from the Carevanserai

Roof View

Common Area

My Belgium Friends

Interior Hallway where our little cubicle bedrooms , divided by a curtain, were

My bedroom