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[ajgeddes]

Well, I am here in Iran right now. Got here yesterday morning. Haven't slept properly since Friday night, so I may be a bit out of it right now.

It's pretty cool here. Nothing like what you expect. One thing that there is a lot of is character. Walking around Tehran yesterday, every little street has character. The temperature is hot, but not overbearing like in Seoul because there is no humidity. Doha was disgusting though.

The kebabs here are great, and different from any style I have had before, but I think they call everything with meat a kebab. Everything here is really cheap except for hotels where they have this foreigner pays at least double rule. However, I just got a train ticket and plane ticket for about 25,000won.

I am in Esfahan right now, just got here and will go exploring soon. I will try to update this as things go along.

Oh yeah, saw the National Jewels Museum in Tehran yesterday. I think there was a bajillion diamonds and every other kind of precious stone. It was awesome, but not pictures allowed. In fact, a lot of places are no pictures, but the guy yesterday didn't get upset at all about it, but I still won't try to make the same mistake again.

(Here's something interesting. When I go to www.eslcafe.com it blocks me, but if I type www.daveseslcafe.com, I can go)

[I-am-me]

Can you take a picture for us of their nuclear reactor? We want to know it exists before Bush declares war again!

[demaratus]

Cool, sounds like a interesting trip!

[Tiger Beer]

Keep us posted! Tehran would be one very interesting place to visit. Hope you keep posting on this thread about Iran.

[ajgeddes]

Spent a full day in Isfahan yesterday and spent almost the whole day talking with the locals. I think I had about 20 cups of tea yesterday. I walked around Imam square, the second largest in Asia. This history here is ridiculous. Everything was built at least 400 years ago and you get into these little mazes where at the end there is some guy in a dark room grinding pomegranate skins into dies, with an old stone wheel, for the cloth they make is some other section of the maze.

The people here are cool. It's funny because nobody likes the way their country is and things are getting worse, not better. Tourism is down, they had more freedom 7 years ago, and they all thing Achmedinejad (sp?) is crazy, and they all dislike how the clergy and the government are the same thing.

I have to meet a guy today for lunch and then tonight I am going to some guys house for dinner. Busy day ahead.

[merkurix]

When I saw the title of this thread, the first thing that came to my mind was that you got stranded there somehow. But it sounds like you are having a great time in a country not many people think to visit when traveling Cheers to you; keep us posted.

[I-am-me]

Jus be careful who you speak with. You might be labeled a subversive and the next message we get will be for ransom or your picture on CNN as a spy!!!

[demaratus]

Sounds like it would be a good trip as far as people watching and history goes. Stay safe and enjoy yourself!

[princess]

Sounds interesting, but as a girl, I would be a little more than afraid to go there. I'd probably have to stay covered from head to toe, and woluld probably get beaten if a strand of hair popped out from under my caftan. Scary.

[PeteJB]

Keep your head on

[Treefarmer]

i would love to go to iran, but i was scared that being english i would get shit from people

probably just propaganda i've been fed

[mrsquirrel]

Have you got your Canadian flag on your backpack so they don't think you are American?

[mcgeezer]

ccol trip!
I studied a lot of Iranian history in Uni. and its one of the places i will visit soon!
I heard it is very difficult however to get a visa....10 days only, must have somewhere to stay before you go etc...
Cou,d you tell us how you did it?
Thanks man have a beauty time!

[desultude]

[desultude]