It all started when my friend Kynsley asked me an innocent question in March: "Would you be interested in visiting Iran, Georgia and Armenia next month?" I replied that I would be surely interested as I had been planning to visit Iran since a long time and I had no job anymore so I was free to travel again. However, we had to skip visiting Georgia and Armenia because we were unable to coordinate our travel plans. Kynsley went to Turkey after visiting Iran and I went to UAE and Oman. I found a job in between and I was supposed to start working on 2nd May which finally didn't happen and the starting date was postponed to 15th May.
I bought a cheap one-way flight ticket from Prague to Tehran with Pegasus on 13th April at 15:30. There was a short stopover in Istanbul. There is obligatory hijab in Iran and most women on the plane put on headscarves while we were landing. We arrived in Tehran nearly at 4am and the airport was crowded with people who were waiting for visa on arrival. Some of them had been waiting there already 6 hours. I had to squeeze through the crowd to get the forms which I had to fill in. I paid 78 Eur for the visa on arrival. It took nearly 4 hours until I got visa and collected my luggage and I went to meet my friend Mehdi who waited for me at the airport with his brother. I had met Mehdi once in Prague 6 years ago. He hosted me 2 nights in Tehran in his father's flat.
When we went out of the airport it was 8am and the air was still cold, around 18°C. It was also foggy. I was surprised to find out that most of the landscape in Iran was a a desert. There were high mountains in the north of Tehran with the snow on the top. Tehran looked pretty much the same as other cities in the Middle East with heavy air pollution and smog. It is not a nice city in my opinion although it has some good places to visit.
The first day I just slept till 3pm in the afternoon. Mehdi's step-mother cooked a lunch which was made of eggplant. There are many dishes made of eggplant in Iran. Then we walked in a park close to his flat which was in the north of Tehran and in the evening we went to the Tabiat Bridge which was full of people and it was illuminated at night.
We took many photos there and then we found a small restaurant nearby where we ate Ash Reshte which is a Persian noodle soup and Kashke Bademjan which is an eggplant dish with a yoghurt and crushed mint leaves.
During my trip in Iran which lasted around 2 weeks I had an opportunity to taste many traditional Persian dishes and I must say that the majority was delicious. I also developped a taste for Golab (flavoured rose water) and I drank it many times in Iran.
I bought a cheap one-way flight ticket from Prague to Tehran with Pegasus on 13th April at 15:30. There was a short stopover in Istanbul. There is obligatory hijab in Iran and most women on the plane put on headscarves while we were landing. We arrived in Tehran nearly at 4am and the airport was crowded with people who were waiting for visa on arrival. Some of them had been waiting there already 6 hours. I had to squeeze through the crowd to get the forms which I had to fill in. I paid 78 Eur for the visa on arrival. It took nearly 4 hours until I got visa and collected my luggage and I went to meet my friend Mehdi who waited for me at the airport with his brother. I had met Mehdi once in Prague 6 years ago. He hosted me 2 nights in Tehran in his father's flat.
When we went out of the airport it was 8am and the air was still cold, around 18°C. It was also foggy. I was surprised to find out that most of the landscape in Iran was a a desert. There were high mountains in the north of Tehran with the snow on the top. Tehran looked pretty much the same as other cities in the Middle East with heavy air pollution and smog. It is not a nice city in my opinion although it has some good places to visit.
The first day I just slept till 3pm in the afternoon. Mehdi's step-mother cooked a lunch which was made of eggplant. There are many dishes made of eggplant in Iran. Then we walked in a park close to his flat which was in the north of Tehran and in the evening we went to the Tabiat Bridge which was full of people and it was illuminated at night.
We took many photos there and then we found a small restaurant nearby where we ate Ash Reshte which is a Persian noodle soup and Kashke Bademjan which is an eggplant dish with a yoghurt and crushed mint leaves.
Ash Reshte
Great!
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