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Chalus Road; The Ace of Iranian Mountain Roads

Chalus Road or “Jade Chalus” or any other transit route to the north of Iran, or how Iranian call it “Shomal”, are not just candy-twist steep paths and highways through the long stream of Alborz mountains isolating the north of the country from the rest of it, they are green pathways to scarcely touched Persian (Iranian) heavens with traffic jams over the holidays that could make you feel the hell that was prophesied in the Great Testimony and Jesus warned us all about.

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Best Hotels in Mashhad For Couples

The city of Mashhad in Iran isn’t actually the best place for a romantic get-away unless you’re a devout Muslim couple which would turn the trip into a life-time experience and something comparable to a Paris tour. Nonetheless, having some clue about which hotels are the best resting places and the best hotels in Mashhad for couples traveling to the second largest city of Iran will cause you no harm.

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IKIA’s Hotels; One Hotel Split into Two

We all have been there; having to wait for our delayed flight back home or to a new destination for a slow-going couple of hours that makes us think “What possibly have I done to deserve such a fate”. The mental image of having to sit on airports unpleasant seat for some hours is so tiresome that many of us decide to just give in to them and just fall asleep right on them where we should go to an airport hotel.

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Iran’s Secret Backpacker Destinations- Off the Beaten Track

Calling all intrepid travelers! Do you want to explore off the beaten track?

Iran is a huge country with infinite places to discover. First time travelers to Iran usually stay within the central provinces and visit the historic cities of Tehran, Kashan, Isfahan, Yazd, and Shiraz. These places are popular for good reason. Established tourism infrastructure together with beautiful sites, historical monuments and picturesque architecture guarantees a good time. This is the quintessential Iranian tour, giving you a taste for Persian life over the ages. Here is the list of Iran’s best Secret Backpacker Destinations.

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Mashhad 3-Day Itinerary; Quick and Simple

When you’re traveling to Iran, three days is less than minimum amount of time you really need to even dig through the sites of a city like Tehran, the most advanced and modern metropolitan and the capital of Iran, let alone other historical and religious zones and cities all across the country. 2500 years of established and documented civilization spanned over dozens of dynasties with an ever-changing territories alongside small and big conflicts and wars occurring each year (in the past times but not now, Iran’s safe!) and different religious crusades taking over the beliefs of the people and remodeling the governing institution periodically have resulted in a land that today we know as Iran, or the land of the Aryans or Persians, with diverse sophisticated culture, rich history, proud ethnic groups and societies, and multiple shrines and holy monuments rising at each corner of the country. One of the holiest cities in Iran is Mashhad, which stands for the place for martyrdom.

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