Tag: Stumbling Upon History in Iran

A tank is just right for Iran’s insane roads and off-roads

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This entry is part [part not set] of 3 in the series Road trip to country home in northeast Iran

Iran is where you can stumble upon a ancient Zoroastrian lookout by accident – and find out it’s not even on the map, let alone protected. Do it in a tank-like 4WD, perfect vehicle for Iran’s dangerous roads.

Waiting in Iran, for 400 years

The abandoned caravansarai of Zafaraniyeh, near Sabzevar, Iran

A postal route operated here when North America wasn’t yet settled by Europeans. International traders  slept here in style 200 years before there was even such a thing as the United States. But today the caravanserai of Zafaraniyeh sits empty and abandoned, like thousands of other ancient jewels all over Iran, victim of time, cultural amnesia..

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