Tag: Caravanserai in Iran
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Another (Abandoned) Caravanserai
Exhilaration and sorrow upon finding another jewel of the desertStumbling on abandoned or undiscovered historical sites is a common theme for anyone who frequently travels Iran’s 240,000 KM of roads. Saeideh and I aren’t frequent travelers and yet some of our most memorable visits are to the nameless abandoned jewels of an Iran no one today would recognize.
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How Not to Visit a 7,000-Year-Old City
I arrived in Meybod ignorant and rushed and missed out on the bestHere’s how NOT to visit a 7,000-year-old Iranian city: do your research beforehand, not after getting home.
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Waiting in Iran, for 400 years
The day I fell in love with an abandoned caravansaraiA postal route operated here when North America wasn’t yet settled by Europeans. International traders slept here in style 200 years before there was even such a thing as the United States. But today the caravanserai of Zafaraniyeh sits empty and abandoned, like thousands of other ancient jewels all over Iran, victim of time, cultural amnesia…
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Stumbling Upon Antiquities in Iran
Highway boredom leads to a day of marveling Iran’s pastNear SABZEVAR, Iran – Iran is so old that sometimes even aimless tourists get to discover a village chock full of antiquities seemingly unnoticed by a government overwhelmed with the upkeep of thousands of similar jewels. It’s mid-August afternoon and wife Saeideh and I are speeding toward Sabzevar on the highway that used to be…
