This was a sightseeing ride really as I visited the town of Mahan which has mausoleu8m for a Sufi, and some famous gardens. The gardens were out of season but very much lacking in maintenance. What a shame.
Down the road to Arg-E-Rayen. This is a mud brick fortress smaller than Bam. Some rich blokes mud house ! It is esentially a brick walled community with the head mans household in part of it. The common people lived within the walls and had their bazaar in there as well. A practical arrangement I guess as it allowed the head man control over all his subjects. Its is all very run down however. The talk about boosting tourism will be just talk unless they actually get organised.
Down the road to Arg-E-Rayen. This is a mud brick fortress smaller than Bam. Some rich blokes mud house ! It is esentially a brick walled community with the head mans household in part of it. The common people lived within the walls and had their bazaar in there as well. A practical arrangement I guess as it allowed the head man control over all his subjects. Its is all very run down however. The talk about boosting tourism will be just talk unless they actually get organised.
And yes the Pic of the dome is yet another mausoleum in the middle of a roundabout ! They really like their past citizens.
Bam was the big drawcard in this region until it was destroyed and the town beside it, in a major earthquake, and which Unesco seems to have had it land on their plate. What a hell of an undertaki9ng ! For what ? A new mud brick fortress ?
Anyway the Town was mostly flattened as well and that rather poor book Lonely Planet reccemmends going to a guest house to help the good owner recover. Well if the good owner got to work and his lazy son moved once in a while they would not need the sympathy vote ! I think the rewards are greater this way but sleeping on the floor in a very dirty room with no hot water after 5 years of "rebuilding" does not deserve sympathy.
Bam was the big drawcard in this region until it was destroyed and the town beside it, in a major earthquake, and which Unesco seems to have had it land on their plate. What a hell of an undertaki9ng ! For what ? A new mud brick fortress ?
Anyway the Town was mostly flattened as well and that rather poor book Lonely Planet reccemmends going to a guest house to help the good owner recover. Well if the good owner got to work and his lazy son moved once in a while they would not need the sympathy vote ! I think the rewards are greater this way but sleeping on the floor in a very dirty room with no hot water after 5 years of "rebuilding" does not deserve sympathy.
I can not really understand why anyone would want to rebuild anything here at all.
So on to the border with no breakfast again....
nzl04
So on to the border with no breakfast again....
nzl04
