Friday 5 September 2008

2002 Northern & Central Asia & The Middle East (Part 2)

The British embassy was super helpful in arranging the papers for us to leave and even drove us to the airport in the official diplomatic land rover.

We entered Iran without any hassles. Mars took a bit to get used to having to dress appropriately though.
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Esfahan

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Naghsh-e Jahan Square

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Si-o-se Pol Bridge

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The reliefs of the mosks.

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Mercedes class

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The ancient city of Persipolis. Sacked by Alexander The Great

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To see some of this stuff you have to go to the stolen collection of the British Museum in London.

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The tombs of Darius the Great and Xerxes.
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The Persian coast.

Because of us running cash and the embargo meant that we couldn't use travellers cheques and or credit cards meant that we had to book a flight out of Iran to Frankfurt through a travel agent in Tehran with contact in Dubai. They than processed the card which finished this trip.