In order to get to Shiraz we had 2 options, one was to take a night bus or to take a private car and make it a day tour, I had done all th...

Yazd to Shiraz

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In order to get to Shiraz we had 2 options, one was to take a night bus or to take a private car and make it a day tour, I had done all the math and figured out that it was going to be more time efficient and economical to take a private car/tour and stop by Persepolis on the way to Shiraz than taking the night bus and then do a day trip. Richard didn’t seem very keen on the idea of a private car so I went ahead and put my name on the list of a tour company to see if anybody would go to Shiraz on that day. Luckily, my friend Marcos came to join us in Yazd to do the day trip to Shiraz so Richard ended up joining us in the private car for $30 each.

We started the journey at 8:30am, we drove miles and miles admiring the beauty scenery of Iranian deserts and snow capped mountains. There really aren’t words to really describe the beauty of the landscape, it really just takes your breath away and no pictures or videos really capture the beauty of it.








On our way we quickly stopped by the eagle mountain, a huge rock really resembling an eagle.


After a couple of hours of driving and the boys snoozing in the back of the car we finally arrived at the first “attraction” near Shiraz… Pasargadae. This was an ancient Persian city but all that is left standing is the tomb of Cyrus the great. We arrived there and our guide told us to go get a ticket that cost around $5 so we asked what there was to see and he said that only the tomb was left standing. We could see the tomb from the entrance gate so it made no sense to just go right in front of it. I said I would pass and that I would walk around it and the boys joined me. I find it quite silly that the entrance to see Pasargadae that has one building standing is the same as Persepolis, a whole ancient city.

Look... Marcos found Pasargadae

This is it!

Tea time!


After Pasargadae we arrived at yet another tourist trap… Necropolis for $5. I am not a history person and even if I hear stories I quickly forget them so once again I decided to skip this attraction and take a picture from far away.


After a quick lunch stop we finally arrived in Persepolis, probably the most well known attraction of Iran.
Persepolis is the ancient city of Parsa and still has some remainings of the ancient ruins. We arrived there two hours+ before closing and strolled around it admiring the beautiful remainings of the city. 















Most of our time was spent climbing the mountains behind Persepolis and admiring the view from up high.
The 2 boys



I was excited about sunset in Persepolis but unfortunately it was overcast and at the end as they closed and kicked us out a big grey cloud was coming towards us.


We got out of Persepolis and we entered the car, not even 3 minutes later the rain started and didn’t stop… for almost a full day!



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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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