Beauties of Iran (other face of Iran)

majid

thank you mates for kind feed backs, it is amazing for me that you know apart from TV. shows... and am trying to show that we are similar to other people on this lovely planet, at least not too much different.
and yeas I live in the 1 thousand and 1 night city !
will promise you that if visit Iran, will love it for ever, like Arthur Upham Pope did:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_Upham_Pope
he and his wife now are calm, at my hometown city of Isfahan due to their testament:

majid

@jim4366 said:

@unknownuser said:

yeah , and I thought why the big brothers are gonna encourage us to kill each others? while peace is more beautiful.

Agreed. Gorgeous pictures. Thanks for sharing.

"soldiers" are our youth, our hopes, our brothers and sisters... why they must be killed at "their" war?

majid

Mashad, also is one great cities with old history and role in west Asia history...
it is capital of Khorasan province, part of great Khorasan area...

Silk Road: Imperial hotel

majid

Sistan va baloochestan, south east of Iran, beside Pakestan:
simple people , simple life:
Kuh Khaje temple, 500 B.C.

Gelkhorak fish, an strange fish that could remain live for few min out of water:

daily life:

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rv1974

Great photos Majid.
I wonder is there any kind of iron curtain in Iran?
Do Iranians have strait access to Google\Youtube\torrents etc? Any censorship filtering?

majid

Fars province that has Shiraz as it's heart, one of first settling places of Arians.
Perspolis, Takhte Jamshid, and many many other historical sites are located at Fars province.
many belive that Cedar and pine tree were holly trees for ancient Persian, and from this culture migrated to EU, etc....
as Zorastrian and Mitraism, belive that cedar and pine can resist the darkness and death...
http://www.trekearth.com/gallery/Middle_East/Iran/East/Fars/Shiraz/photo1366111.htm

bringing gift to emperor of Persia:

traditional dress:

nomads:

Persepolis, nations gate:

Pasargad, Cyrus the Great period (559–530 BC)

Perspolis:

wood inlay:

traditional house:
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Hafez , the great poet:
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Saadi, great poet:
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porch_unplugged

Hi Majid. Beautiful photos from a beautiful country. I was lucky to get to visit Iran a couple of years ago, and it blew me away. From the spectacular scenery to unbelievably friendly people to the craziest drivers I have ever seen!

I travelled from Maku, To Tabriz (fantastic market), to Qazvin, to Tehran (I managed to cause a car crash while driving into Tehran), to Nowshuhr, to Bojnurd and into Turkmenistan.

I've been telling everyone they should go visit Iran since I got home. Would love to go back.

some of my pics....

majid

@porch_unplugged said:

Hi Majid. Beautiful photos from a beautiful country. I was lucky to get to visit Iran a couple of years ago, and it blew me away. From the spectacular scenery to unbelievably friendly people to the craziest drivers I have ever seen!

I travelled from Maku, To Tabriz (fantastic market), to Qazvin, to Tehran (I managed to cause a car crash while driving into Tehran), to Nowshuhr, to Bojnurd and into Turkmenistan.

I've been telling everyone they should go visit Iran since I got home. Would love to go back.

some of my pics....

craziest drivers.....hahahaha agree... also I like your carpet market picture of Tabriz ( I guess it must be Tabriz, am I right?)
I hope everyone visits Persia, it is a really beautiful and cheap country.
also I wish to visit Turkmenistan this june!
thanks for sharing

porch_unplugged

@majid said:

craziest drivers.....hahahaha agree... also I like your carpet market picture of Tabriz ( I guess it must be Tabriz, am I right?)
I hope everyone visits Persia, it is a really beautiful and cheap country.
also I wish to visit Turkmenistan this june!
thanks for sharing

Yes it was Tabriz.

Turkmenistan is unreal! It's another place I think everyone should visit, but for different reasons...it's the strangest country country i've ever been to.

Make sure your car is clean if you are driving in Ashgabat! And go to the Darvaza crater if you can. enjoy!

majid

Thank you for sharing your experience.
I thought people need hands of other people not missiles of them!

Bakhtiari province, were I born:

Soraya Bakhtiary, former Queen of Persia:

Nature

abbasbostaniasl

زیبا زیبا زیبا

majid

west of Iran, kordestan province, were Kord people live

Avalan mount, (sound familliar, no? wizards secret plcae!)

ready to Kordish dance:

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majid

more pictures of Bakhtiari province, token by my friend GH.Borjian:

majid

Zanjan province, Central Persia

Gaieus

Majid, your images are "not allowed" to be embedded on this site - moreover, when I try to display them individually, I get a standard 403 ("Forbidden") error.

It's either some gremlins or a normal way of a site preventing images to be "hot-linked" (or something else like you can only see them when logged in - like attachments here on the forums)

majid

is is same for others? as I am not member of the original website, almost all of of them belong to http://www.trekearth.com/gallery/

majid

Iran ban is going to reach an strange point of exchanging oil by food in next 2 weeks or less,...... I donno what's gonna be happen.. By the way doing my small job on peace:
Khorasane jonoobi (Khorasan-e_Janubi) province ,almost a desert ,hot place:

best saffaron of the world belongs to this area:
saffron girl

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majid

more pictures:

majid

this time I thought why just pics? so decided to share a pice of contemporay Iranian music during an interview:
http://www.linktv.org/newmuslimmusic/kayhan
http://www.silkroadproject.org/News/Newsletter/Oct10TourMain/Oct10Kayhan/tabid/488/Default.aspx
rtmp://brightcove.fcod.llnwd.net/a500/e1/rtmp/ondemand?videoId=524280937001&lineUpId=&pubId=136368194&playerId=271539391&playerTag=&affiliateId=/mp4:136368194/136368194_541053687001_Kayhan-Complete-HD-Brightcove-h-264-720-deinterlace-6mbps-29-97.mp4
hope you like

majid

Golestan province, a mixture of Turkmen, Balooch and native people, beside the Khazar sea and north of Iran. combination of mount, sea and rainy fields.

Iranian Turkmen:

walnut tree