Andrea Hearts Traveling

We left Varzaneh at around 12 in a shared taxi with Philip to Naein since there were no buses in Varzaneh. The taxi driver stopped in Naein and dropped Richard and myself off at the police station, he said that all busses must stop there so it would be easy to get a ride to Yazd.

This morning we left Javad’s house and headed to the desert!

After our quick tour of Abyaneh we were dropped off at a bus stand and took a shared taxi to Isfahan. An hour and a half later we finally reached Isfahan! Our taxi driver insisted to drop us off at the taxi stand but we actually got off at the bus station and caught a bus close to the center of the city. It is really funny to see how people push the taxis for the tourists even when we say we want to use the bus.

We entered the bus and of course everybody was staring at the two foreigners carrying backpacks! People were kind and asked for us to sit down.

Richard and I left Tehran early in the morning and took a bus to Kashan where we wanted to spend the night but then our host from couch surfing couldn’t host us anymore so we ended up just passing through.

As we arrived in Kashan our bus driver dropped us off at a spot where they were a lot of taxi drivers waiting for tourists. On my way I had done some research and I knew some places we wanted to visit and how much it would cost to get there. The first ten minutes of our arrival was pretty much dealing with taxi drivers to get a good deal to take us to a village called Abyaneh. I had read that from kashan you can get a shared taxi round trip for $10 each so we negotiated a taxi driver for $25 for both of us and to drop us off in Natanz where we could get a public bus to Isfahan.

Iran… one of the countries that everybody think is dangerous and not safe to travel to and even less so on your own… being a female!!!!!!

I knew that Iran being a muslim country had many rules such as covering your head all the time (using a hijab) but even with all the rules, that to me seem a little crazy, I was beyond excited for this unexpected trip to a country I thought I would never visit. After 8 hours or so on the airplane we got ready for landing and the voice on the speaker told us that all women had to cover their head... so Iran here I come! As we got off the plane officials were waiting by the door making sure that all women were covered and they actually stopped those that were not wearing a hijab properly.

Yazd

The Iranian desert, Varzaneh

Isfahan

Quick stop in Kashan and Abyaneh

Made it to Iran!

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