When you are travelling from Kashan to Isfahan then stopping in the village Abyaneh is a good option. It takes around one hour to get there from Kashan by car. This village is situated high in the mountains, its altitude is 2500 meters. It is dated back to 1500 years ago and you can admire its red mud brick houses. The terrain around Abyaneh contains iron oxides that's why the houses have reddish colour. It was cloudy and much colder than in Kashan, it was around 15°C on 18th April.
The Abyanaki women typically wear a white long scarf with a colourful pattern and under-knee skirt.

 You can wonder around the city and admire the beauty of this city, but many houses are abandoned and the population of this village is only 300 permanent residents. I took a video of old ladies dressed in traditional costumes sell souvenirs to tourists, you can watch it here.

We spent around one hour in Abyaneh and then we travelled to Isfahan. I was travelling with a taxi driver who worked for a travel agency in Kashan and we were accompanied by some couchsurfers. The landscape between Kashan and Isfahan is a desert and I didn't put a scarf on until we reached Isfahan. The taxi driver dropped me at a bus station where I waited around one hour for my host Mojtaba from couchsurfing. I asked him to host me and Kynsley but he replied that he hosted only girls which made me a bit suspicious but I had no time to look for another host so I accepted his offer. Kynsley stayed in a hostel with Mohammad from Borujerd who accompanied us for the rest of our travel in Iran. 

Mojtaba picked me up from the bus station around 3pm by car and we went to the Shahrzad restaurant where we ordered several Iranian traditional dishes.

These traditional dishes included Beryani which is made of lamb offal as lung and liver wrapped in a bread. If you are not put off by offal then you should definitely taste it because it is delicious.

Another traditional dish of the brown colour which is in the corner is called Fesenjan. It is chicken stew with walnut and pomegranate sauce. The sauce is sweet but it is also very tasty.

The only Iranian dish which I really disliked was Khoresht Mast (the yellow beef yoghurt desert). It is also sweetish but I found the taste similar to a burnt tyre and I could eat only a few spoons.

We drank also Ayran which is the white salty yoghurt beverage. I tasted it and it was ok but it probably won't become my favourite drink.

After we finished eating we walked along the river Zayanderud which is the largest river in the central Iran. There are famous historical bridges like the Khaju bridge on the picture. There were a lot of Iranian people near the river but we saw only a few tourists. Several Iranian people greeted me and tried to have a short conversation with me. I was also offered an apple and pumpkin seeds. Then we sat next to the river and watched the sunset. Khaju bridge is a popular meeting spot for Iranians and when it got dark they listened to a singer under the arches of the bridge.

Then we went home and drank black tea. We went to sleep late and the following date I got up early because I was going to meet Kynsley and Mohammed and we visited Isfahan together.