Being in Thailand, all I want to do is put photos up about Thailand but as prom­ised here are some more shots of things we saw and did in Iran. I also promise you that I’ll make a special post about Persepolis. I got some good footage and photos.
For now, enjoy these.

We are most likely in Esfahan as you read this, but all of these photos are from Tehran. I haven’t felt very com­fort­able pulling out my SLR here, so I’ve been using the point-shoot camera. Perhaps that feeling is irra­tional. Either way, all the photos I have posted here are from our little point-shoot, which [...]

It had been a while since we’d visited a museum. I was begin­ning to itch because of it.  So to enterain ourselves during our first full day in Tehran we decided to check­out the National Museum of Iran.
It’s the perfect size for a visitor to look at the entire col­lec­tion in 2-hours, meaning you’re sat­is­fied and [...]

The Unesco World Heritage site Takht-e-Soleiman is 42 kilo­met­ers north­east from a small town called Takab in Iran.  It was the spir­itual centre of the ancient state reli­gion called Zoroastrianism.
This 1500-year old site must have been remark­able in its heyday, because the for­ti­fy­ing walls that still stand are very impress­ive.  It is truly a remarkable [...]

It sure is getting hot wearing my head scarf and the knee length “manto” (a.k.a. thin jacket). It is the law for me to wear a head scarf. I have some other ones you’ll see me mod­el­ing in future photos.  Cultural pres­sure and local fashion make me feel like I should wear the manto.
People sure stare as us [...]