Author: Martin

  • Discovering Tehran

    Discovering Tehran

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    May 6th: Teheran – what a City. Last evening we had a very nice dinner in the Hotel with some non alcoholic beer. Seems we are getting used to it 😂. The food was excellent and so we had a nice round up of a long driving day. Today we spent the entire day in the…

  • From Yazd to Tehran

    From Yazd to Tehran

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    May 6th: Can you believe it …. it is already the 10th blog and we are not even half way there. After an early breakfast in the famous Hotel Kohsan we got ready for the next 650km to Teheran. We started as usual to pack the car and faced our first challenge: we had to turn…

  • From Shiraz to Yazd via Persepolis and Pasargadae

    From Shiraz to Yazd via Persepolis and Pasargadae

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    May 5th: Before talking about today’s trip we would still like to share some details about our dinner story from last night. We organized a taxi and went the restaurant called Soofi. We can just recommend that restaurant. If you are looking for good food for a decent price and a menu In English that is…

  • Discovering Shiraz

    Discovering Shiraz

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    May 4th: After the very long trip of yesterday we started today only at around 8am with our trip through Shiraz. We started with the botanical garden of Enram. Before we had to resolve an other challenge with our local SIM card again. We called a taxi and explained the driver that we wanted to…

  • From Kerman to Shiraz via Maymand

    From Kerman to Shiraz via Maymand

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    May 3rd: After an early breakfast at 6h45am we were ready for our trip to Shiraz. 750km ahead of us.  Leaving Kerman that early gives you the opportunity to drive on nearly empty streets especially on a Friday. You will read later that this can be really different… We decided to make a small little…

  • Experiencing Kerman

    Experiencing Kerman

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    May 2nd: As mentioned before we had a safe trip to Kerman. We stay over in the Kerman Pars Hotel, much better than previous one. After settling into the room and taking a quick shower we started our adventure in the City Center. We managed to order a Taxi at the reception and 5 min later…

  • Trip from Bandar Abbas to Kerman

    Trip from Bandar Abbas to Kerman

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    May 2nd: After a decent breakfast in Iran Hotel Bandar Abbas we jumped at 7h30am into our car for the trip to Kerman. We had no idea how roads would be nor how traffic would evolve ….. and no idea about the local driving style at all. After 20min we left Bandar Abbas behind and…

  • Arriving in 🇮🇷

    Arriving in 🇮🇷

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    May 1st: Yes we made it! After 12h on the ferry we drove our car of the boat. We drove 50m – that’s it. We had to immigrate ourselves first and only afterwards you can start the import process of the car. We were the last ones queuing…. but it works fast and the customs…

  • How exciting, we can roll on the ferry

    How exciting, we can roll on the ferry

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    April 30th/May 1st: Eventually things are moving. Our best friend in the harbor is now allowing us to load the car. M1 is driving himself…. an experience to drive the car onto a ferry…. After loading, our personal immigration process has to follow. All the way back from the ferry to the entrance of the…

  • Still in the harbor

    Still in the harbor

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    April 30th continued. It is a long day in the harbor… forced to do nothing but nothing at all … 37 degrees …we are waiting for the ferry to be ready for boarding and loading. Our advise for someone who wants to do that: bring lots of food, make sure you have enough water and…