Wednesday, August 6, 2008

Wine, dissent and fast food in shiraz

Now we are in Shiraz, here everyone seems to be unhappy about Iran.

We met a bunch of girls of bahai religion who told us that they are constantly discriminated and they also complained that there is nothing to do at night in Iran for young people, except going to fast food restaurant and drive around...The same night we were looking for a coffee shop to hang out, we met an Iranian guy who drove us to one one of them but he could not join us because he was going to have a date with his girlfriend: the date consisted in driving her around since as he told us "Iranian girls, only speak". Anyway we entered the coffee shop which is actually a very western style fast food where everyone is dressed up as for a big night out, girls are heavily made up and boys have Hollywood haircuts. Everything looked very comical and a little bit sad...

The town of Shiraz is nice even if we were expecting something more, don t miss the bazaar which is really cool, even if traffic and pollution are terrible...Today we went to Persepolis which is much smaller than we thought, but quite impressive.

By the way, we are really really surprised by the lack of western tourists: even in Persepolis which is supposed to be one of the main attraqctions of Iran we hardly saw any of them. Please come to Iran!!

We also reserved our Shiraz-Esfahan bus tickets at Pars Travel on Zand street, they are really efficient and they seem to provide Iranian visa as well, for western tourists.

And finally we are writing as we have just come back from the house of an Iranian family that invited us for dinner, basically after meeting us in the street. They were extremely kind and we really enjoyed their company. We also found out that they watch Italian and European satellite TV where tehre s more naked women than ever. We wonder which idea they have about western culture...

9 commenti:

Anonymous said...

Hi guys,
Nice to hear yr from you after few days :)
Did Pars Travel charge you commision for reserving the bus ticket for you ? How much is it, and how long is the journey ? Is it night bus ? If you don't mind, can you plz check for me (ask them)the last bus from Esfahan to Shiraz (I'm doing the opposite route, coming from Iran and all the way down, while you are coming from down to up). BTW how much is internet per hour over there ?Thanks. Happy travelling.
Anita

Anonymous said...

Guys don't miss poet Hafez grave, and try to get some locals to explain to you how to read and pray on his poems! It is pretty cool.
Francesco

Arash said...

hey guys you can go to yasuj
it is very nice place.

arash
tehran-iran

Paolo minero said...

My friend Salman is from Shiraz...just saying...

Farrokh said...

I was also born in Shiraz; although, I lived most of my pre-USA life in Tehran. If you get a chance, I would suggest visiting Tombs of Hafez and Saadi. They are two of the more famous Iranian poets.

Anonymous said...

While you're still in Shiraz, can you plz ask around for tour to see the nomads ? I hear that we can do that in Shiraz. Thanks.
Anita

Julie said...

Hi Anita..we were missing you;-)...
The best thing is to tell us your tentative itinerary if you have one, so that we can provide you with all the practicqal information we have in one shot. BTW we did not buy the bus ticket from Pars tours we went directly to the terminal, buses from shiraz and esfahan seem to be very frequent in both directions: almost one per hour and there are also night buses...In Iran there are plenty of bus companies so it s better to ask around many times for the schedules of different companies since many options exist, which is good!

Julie said...

Hey Farrokh! Good to hear from you, yes we went to see both tombs, we actually enjoyed our stay in Shiraz...looking forward to show you some pictures

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