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Ali Jafari

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Travel to Iran as an American, British or Canadian

If you have an American passport and only an American passport, Iran is not the easiest destination you can choose for your vacation. You need a licensed tour guide to accompany you during the trip. The same is true for British and Canadian citizens. Nevertheless, unless you read the rest of this piece, you will miss the chance of, at least contemplating about, a journey of a lifetime. Like most Americans do not swear as much as movies show and not all Canadians are afraid of the dark, nor is Iran what the media portray. Iran is actually a relatively modern country with a young educated population. Here you can find everything for travel to Iran as an American or British and Canadian citizen.

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Exotic Hotels in Iran

There are too many hotels in Iran. Below is a list of some of the Iranian hotels that offer a somewhat different experience. We have featured them because of their location, architecture, or some other quality that make them unique. These Iran hotels are so beautiful that everybody gets in love with them! Make sure you have one of them reserved for your trip to Iran.

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Iran Travel Guide: Discover Iran on Plane, Train and Ferry

If you want to travel around Iran with a degree of comfort, you can discover it on train or plane. It was during the 1930s and 1940s that most of Iran, from north to east and east to west was connected by trains. Currently close to 30 million passengers ride RAJA Rail Transportation Company’s trains every year and some 20 million passengers take domestic flights. Iran tourism scene has recently been lighted by the classic One Thousand and One Nights Train; in June, it carried a number of tourist from Istanbul to Tabriz and passed Qazvin and Yazd before heading for Tehran. The Iranian RAJA Rail Transportation Company offers a similar deal if you get on their Zendegi Luxury Train. That is one way to see Iran, yet not the most economical. For those visiting Iran on a tight budget and still craving a train ride, those trains are not the prime options.

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Iran Travel Guide: Currency and Cell-phone

Iran Travel Guide series will give you useful tips for navigating and discovering this country independently. In this piece, I am going to give you some general information about Iran currency and using cell-phones in Iran. Upon reading it, you should know almost everything there is to know about money exchange and getting a SIM card. Both of these are the essentials of traveling in Iran or any other country, for that matter.

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