Tuesday, September 3, 2019

7976 km: Iran, Mazandaran, Nowshahr

From 27 August till 31 August 2019


Qisum Forest - Imamzadeh Ibrahim - Nowshahr


Orux map screenshot: 
BLUE line is the planned route 
RED line is the actual route we drove




From Qisum Forest to Nowshahr, our next destination, it's approx 350km. Calculating heavy traffic and streets leading through the cities along the Caspian Sea, it will take us about 5 hours.  So we have enough time to make a detour to visit the pilgrimage "Imamzadeh Ibrahim" embedded in the Alborz mountains about 25km from the city of Rasht.

The road up is very nice with lush green forests and wild streams full of fresh water for Tara ...

...and different types of houses




Final destination 

Imamzadeh Ibrahim in the middle of a beautiful surrounding...


.... has developed into a very active colourful village for Iranian tourists...


All these buildings are Hotels , build very simple with wood and most of them have only curtains to separate the rooms from each other ...












.... not easy to drive through the narrow streets full of people, cars and shops...

... finally we find a place to park BlueBird 

 The holy shrine of the Imamzadeh Ibrahim is not really exciting from outside  ...












 ...nor inside


After a good lunch in one of the many restaurants we drive further on, not knowing that it will take us 7 more hours to reach Nowshahr. Too many travellers driving through the cities and not everywhere highways and bypasses to avoid the cities.

There are many more nice places to visit, but we are tired after 5 weeks on the road and want to take a rest for some days at our friends house in Nowshahr at the Caspian Sea.
The weather is rainy, humid with pleasant temperatures for the next coming days.

With our friends Zari and Hamid at the beach, where we are more or less free to walk without a scarf and long sleeves


Ghost lake is a mystic place up in the mountains near Nowshahr, always foggy and no sun

















Hosain and Hamid..... Best friends since school times

Best friends since 40 years

We and specially Tara spent some nice relaxing days at our friends place ...












.... and gave BlueBird a break

the housekeeper and his family say goodbye 


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