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Arrival in Iran
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05. 08. Sep: Dogubayazit (TR) - Tabriz (IR)
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- 05. Sep: Dogubayazit - MaraquaLar 113 km
- 06. Sep: MaraquaLar - Kever Sheyer 109,5 km
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- 07. Sep: Kever Sheyer - Tabriz 91 km
- 08. + 09. Sep: Stay in Tabriz
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| idyllic river
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azerbaidjanian farmer
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our first nighty in Iran
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Arrival in the Islamic Republic of Iran
The state Iran is the most controverse discussed
country of our previous journey. In Germany when we told
people we would go to Iran, most of them would say we are crazy
guys, because it is sooo dangerous. Arriving at the border, we see
long lines of trucks waiting in the Turkish area for their permit,
we see Iranian people putting apparently forbidden stuff underneath
their clothes. But we also recognize friendly faces behind the
big black robe of the women. On the Turkish side we still enjoy the nice
chattering with the border police, until we are allowed to enter the Iranian
border through a huge gate made of steel. We are a little bit unconfident
because of this big door and the strict looking faces of the police there, but
we are allowed to pass after our passports get controlled. A few days later
we notice, that our playing cards are forbidden in Iran, so we just had good luck.
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| sunflower machine
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salty river
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| 200 Euro? Before itr was only 2 notes...
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Benny is finished
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Iranian hospitality
Hello? It seems that we are now really in Iran, we still try to get this
fact in our mind. Our first meters lead us directely on fantastic asphalt surface
to the province Aserbaidschan. Here, people don't speak the Persian language,
but a Turkish accent. We pass uncounted fields of sunflowers, which are going to be
harvested now, so that we see many people cutting these flowers and hitting with a stick
on them to make the seeds come out. During the first day, many peolpe invite us for tea
or offer us some fruits! Unbelievable. We could not remember that people for instance
in Germany did ever do this to us. Our first night we slept behind a little shop of a nice
shopkeeper, whose wife brought us some tea and also a hand latern. The shopkeeper feels himself
responsible for silence near our tent and displaces some youth which we are talking to.Thereby
we only want to talk to them! Late at night we get an invitation to a home of one of these youth
but we are tired to death and already sleeping, so that we refuse this nice invitation.
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| There is lots of fruit!
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mule
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| Where is Mandy?
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try iy out!
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Controverse country
At the next day, we get invited to a picknick of a very nice Iranian family on holiday and so we
enjoy the nice companionship and fresh bread, cheese and tea. We are surprised when we have a
look at the woman,
because we recognize that the woman don't wear only this black robe as we know from our media. Most
of them wear 'only' a coloured scarf, which shows a lot of hair and are also flashily-rouged.
Later we will recognize indeed that about half of the women wear more a leger robe and mostly the religious
women wear the black 'tschador'. The hospitality of the Iranian people we meet is on the one hand overwhelming,
but on the other hand we also notice some tensions in this country - or are these only our own tensions?
Conciously we avoid the issue of politics, because we don't want to get some people in trouble with secret
police. But its the Iranian people who complain at first about their government:
Here are some quotations we heard:
"Germany is a good country, because there is democracy. We are not free. (truck-driver)
"The government invests only money in Hisbollah and nuclear research, but they don't care about
their own people. Yesterday I saw a women running away from her husband, because they have beenn starving
for two days. I saw it with my own eyes. ( shopkeeper)
"There are two areas for you. At the areas where women wear the black tschador, there you are not safe.
At places where women wear makeup and sacrfs showing the hair, there live the educated people (student)
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| Invitation for Picknick
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Long Vehicel
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| Mosque
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Mosaik
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< back to Turkey, Part 5
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continue with Iran, Part 2 ->
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