Every year more than 300 million people celebrate Nowruz on the 21st of March; But what is Nowruz? Where are its commonplaces? And how do people celebrate it? Haftseen Table- Persian New Year The Most Important Event of the Solar Calendar Nowruz (in Farsi: نوروز) is a Persian term referred to as the Persian new year that literally means a new day or, according to...
My wife and I traveled to Iran at the end of 2018 to celebrate my 58th birthday. We have been to Shiraz, Yazd and Isfahan. I have been to more than sixty countries and I can say that Iran is obviously one of the best. First and foremost we were impressed by the friendliness of the local people. It was not the sort of friendliness tourists come across in many places...
I am from Jakarta, Indonesia. I visited Iran on 1 to 8 January 2017. I know, it has been three years since then. But It was a pleasant journey that I will never forget! I travelled with my wife and my two teenage children. We flew from Bangkok to Tehran on the morning of the first day of 2017. Arrived in Khomeini International Airport in the evening, Tehran time. We...
Iran is amazing and I miss this country so so much❤️Laura Nagyova I have never been in such a beautiful country. I was traveling by my own eith my 5 years old son, 17 years daughter and my mother. The history of the country is unique. Clean streets, the level of domestic transfer, knowing unk ow places…and people I have met were so nice and amazing. This is...
I have lots of great memories from Iran but one of my favorites is when my dad and I went on a road trip to Mazandaran. It was snowing really hard and the roads were very slippery so we had to drive really slow. But then the snow caused a lot of traffic and our heater was broken since we forgot to get it fixed before going on the trip. So long story short we were in...
My husband and I travelled to Iran in Year 2017. We visited Shiraz, Yazd, Esfahan, and Tehran for two weeks. It is a very impressive traveling experience. Iranian are the friendliest people. When we walked in Yazd and asked for directions, the shopkeeper was very helpful to tell us and also invited us to his shop to have some tea and sweets...
When my family and I were in Iran we usually went to the north part of the country (mazandaran) which was such a beautiful place. One of my memories is when I was at the Caspian sea beach, my brother and I were just having fun and swimming in the water but all of a sudden we see our dad running towards us to pull us out of the water and we had no idea why so my...
Here is my story from a memorable 1-week visit of the legendary Isfahan during my childhood. I was like 8 years old when I first traveled to this wonderful city with my family. I was a Tehran resident back then and moving from the crowded capital to a traditional city was so exciting to me. My sisters and I loved traveling by train, so my parents booked train tickets...