I arrived in Qeshm island at around 9am and the bus dropped me off in a town that was not Qeshm. Between my 25 words in farsi, hand ge...

Qeshm Island!

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I arrived in Qeshm island at around 9am and the bus dropped me off in a town that was not Qeshm. Between my 25 words in farsi, hand gestures and the driver’s broken english I managed to tell them I needed to go to Qeshm, they said no problem and paid for a shared taxi to take me to the main town. In the Taxi I met Fariba, a girl doing her PhD studies in Qeshm and she told the driver where to drop me off to get a hotel. 
I was dropped off in front of a tall building with a  huge hotel sign, I immediately knew that it wasn’t really what I was looking for so I went to a store and got some more credit for my phone and started googleing where to go in Qeshm. Thirty minutes later I had figured out that I wanted to go to a local’s home and stay there. I immediately contacted Assad (the guesthouse owner) who told me he was fully booked but I could sleep in the living room, I had no problem with it so he sent a shared taxi to pick me up.


While I sat on the side of the street in Qeshm I was impressed to see women wearing masks, some kind of weird mask. I later learned that these masks are called boregheh and are traditional of the Bandari people in Iran.  



At around 12:30 I arrived in Assad’s place, went for a quick walk and had a home made lunch on the floor of his living room.

In the afternoon Assad took me and some of the guests for a hike n Chahkook Canyon. I wasn’t expecting much since I had no idea what Qeshm had to offer but OMG was that beautiful or what?!?! The landscape of Qeshm is just out of this world! I loved loved loved walking around it and taking in the views… magical!


Impressed by the beauty of the valley





Scary up hill to go catch the sunset






Beautiful sunset!!!!!



The next day I went out with my new (short-term) traveling partner, Chris (German, of course!), to star valley. We left Assad’s place and hitch hiked to the next town where we needed to make a left turn and go in a different direction.
Chris’ strategy to hitch hiking was to leave me near the road and for him to walk far from me because he believes that more cars stop for girls haha. After about 5 minutes a car with two guys stopped and gave us a ride. None of the guys knew how to speak english so it was very interesting how we managed to actually communicate. At first Chris and I didn’t know if we were in a shared taxi or actually getting a ride for free but at the end we figured out they were two friends just driving to Qeshm city. 

When we got to the intersection one of the guys got off the car and found somebody to take us to star valley. We once again didn’t know if it was free or we had to pay but we thought we would have and we did. The guy was trying to overcharge us for a 10min ride so we ended up giving him what we thought it was worth it (well, a little more than the locals) and we left.

We walked through the star valley and once again it was just incredible! The landscape was very impressive and I felt very fortunate to be there. Chris and I walked for about 1 ½ hours, going up and down the cliffs just amazed at how unreal the place was.



I thought this view was simply impressive!







When we arrived in Star Valley the parking lot was full of cars so we thought we could easily get a ride back but unfortunately we took way too long and when we left there were only 3 cars in the parking lot so we had to walk about 1- 1 ½ km in order to get a shared taxi to Qeshm to catch the ferry to Hormuz.

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Hi! It's me... Andrea! In 2016 I decided to drop everything and take a year to enrich my life and travel around the world. It turns out the world is just too big for 12 months! Still on the road and sharing my experience as a solo female traveler around the globe!

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