Andrea Hearts Traveling

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.

Yazd is a small city so for one of the days we decided to book a tour to visit sites outside of the city.

Our first stop of the day was at Kharanagh, an abandoned village in the middle of the desert in Iran. I walked along the cobblestone streets of this old yet beautiful adobe-like village and got lost on the many alleys leading to the different parts of town. The best part was that there wasn’t anybody around; when we got there there were a couple of tourists but then it looked like the whole village was left to ourselves.

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.

Yazd to Shiraz

Day Tour around Yazd

Yazd

The Iranian desert, Varzaneh

Isfahan

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