I took the bus in the afternoon to Kashan and arrived about 18:30. My CS host was kind enough to bring me from the bus terminal. I was just the first of many other guests at his place: Raquel and…
Islam in Egypt
The day before going to Upper Egypt, we met Yasmine in an impressive modern mall in Cairo. She used to be a student of teacher Nagui, now working and finishing an MBA. Yasmine is an open minded woman with strong…
Results of the Egyptian Elections
The details of the results can be shown in [url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Egyptian_presidential_election,_2012]wikipedia[/url] In the first round, 3 candidates got more than 20% of the votes: Shafik, the former prime minister Morsi, an independent candidate from the party founded by the Muslim Brotherhood…
Esfahan
The bus to Isfahan was the same price as the taxi fare from Yazd city center to the bus terminal: 50000 IRR, very cheap for a 5h bus trip! If we started almost empty, some other passengers joined in the…
Yazd
I got the nightly bus to Yazd exactly one day after the five Europeans. I tried to reach them to know in which hotel to go, but I didn’t receive their SMS. Arriving at 5am, I just went to the…
Shiraz
As I have less than 20 days in Iran, I could only see a part of it, and chose to follow the classic route recommended by the Lonely Planet. I flew from Tehran to Shiraz, a ~ 1000km and 2h…
Tehran
Arriving in Tehran by plane, I did the same game as in Cairo: no I don’t want to pay about 20€ for a taxi drive to the city center. So I take the bus, 10 times cheaper. But it was…
Iran and western propaganda
My first post about Iran shall be against the “western countries”, especially USA, which put Iran to the terrorism axis as a pariah state. Like in many countries, there is a huge gap between what the government is saying and…
Amman to Tehran with a transit in Qatar
I flew with Qatar Airways from Amman to Tehran via a one night stop in Doha (20:00 to 7:00). When I booked this flight, I thought I would have hotel service since I had so in Ethiopia were I spent…
Last days in Amman
Mk introduced me to his friends in Amman and we got 3 very nice evening there! Either good restaurant or going to the nature around a fire and some songs, I got a wonderful time! Funnily, many of the girls…