A foodie tour of Iran: it’s poetry on a plate
magine a verdant, landscape filled with rice paddies, tea plantations and olive groves. A land where you can hike up mountains in the thick mist…
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Author: بروجردی
A motorcycling adventure across Iran: ‘the standout attraction is the people’
Riding a trail bike 3,000 miles across Iran took Lois Pryce through spectacular scenery, but it was the warm hospitality she encountered along the way…
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Trekking Iran’s Lut desert: a wild, remote adventure – in pictures
Iran’s Dasht-e Lut with its giant dunes, salt plains and kaluts provides an epic journey of breathtaking beauty and wilderness, as seen in these images…
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Iran picks up in popularity
Some may be surprised, others will be expecting the numbers to be on these lines, but the fact remains. Iran has been on a double-digit…
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The foodie traveller … in Tehran’s Grand Bazaar
“What are they waiting for?” I ask a spice seller, pointing at the long queue zigzagging down the street. “Moslem restaurant. Best tah-chin of Tehran,”…
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Trek the Lut desert
The Dasht-e Lut desert, one of the Earth’s hottest and driest places, is a (hardy) trekker’s dream, with incredible rock formations, sand dunes, salt plains…
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Valley of the Assassins
A walking tour based around the eponymous 1934 travelogue by the explorer Freya Stark, showcasing the greener side of Iran, traditional villages, the castles of…
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Climb Mount Damavand
It takes four days to reach the summit of the country’s highest mountain, a 5,671-metre volcano. Base camp is two hours from Tehran, making Damavand…
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