Yazd

Straight after my border crossing, I took a bus to the holy city of Mashhad, but didnt stay that long as I had to make choices for my trip and didn t have enough time to visit this city. Anyway, I just caught a but to the famous old city of Yazd, famous to be one of the most important Zoroastian place, the pre Islamic religion. Yazd is, according to Unesco, one of the oldest city of the world.
Of course, most of the city is now made with new buildings but the old part of the city is very impressiv, narrow alleys with mud walls and houses....quite a nice feeling to hang around in there.












































Islamic religion is really part of the people life here and all the women have to wear their veil and the hejab (black) to cover their body. I have really that feeling to be in an Islamic country, and not in those Islamic-pretending-to-be-countries the 'stans' are.

The guesthouse I m staying at is quite nice, hippie styled traditional house with quite an atmosphere. The weather there is just crazy... I though I reached the hottest in the Aral dead sea but I was far from what Yazd weather is... no way to do anything between 12 and 3pm....all the shops are closed and open again around 4 or 5. Locals start going out and shop at night when the weather is much more better(I didn t say it was fresh...just better).






























The second day, a french guy I met at the guesthouse, his couchsurfer friend and I webt for a visit of the town and its close countryside. It s actually very interesting to hang around with some locals not only to get to know the city a little bit better but also to discuss with them about their customs, their country and mainly about their ppoint of view on different topics. No need to say that the main topic was the presidential elections and the locals are really happy and open to talk about it and to give their point of view.

Architecture there is beautifull and the place is full of history as I said earlier it was a famous place for Zoroastrian religion (some of the Iranian still are Zoroastrian), but the Islamic religion brough by the arabics is now the most represented one.






























Hereabove, a Zoroastrian religious place where dead people bodies were put (not buried) to be eaten by crows so their soul can go up to the sky, and heaven.
On the middle left, you can see the famous windcatcher that were catching the wind from outside to bring it inside houses to cool the place by bringing fresh air and at the same time extracting hot air.