Iran ! Let s switch off the television
Iran !As personally expected, there are lots of ideas , mostly western ideas, that need to be reviewed or changed !! I think everyone should have that opportunity to come here to see what Iran really is ... And then think just a little bit about why medias and powerful people of the west want to show that really untrue image about Iran!
Why do some people impose their views to a country that has probably the most ancient and rich culture in the world ! Of course, the Iranian government is not good, and i discovered how much the iranian people here don t like their government and their crazy president and there are lots of things to be improved in Iran, like women status for example... but Iran people are not terrorist, are not against occident !
And i discovered how much people here are well educated, humble and have managed to preserve their culture from the western "one-way-of-thinking". Iran, the previous Persian Empire, has a culture claiming to have started around 4 000 before Christ. There s so much to learn in Iran about their history, their architecture, their religions (Zo
roastrians, Sufism, Islam), their religious distinction with the other muslims which are sunnites while Iranians are Chiites, so on.
roastrians, Sufism, Islam), their religious distinction with the other muslims which are sunnites while Iranians are Chiites, so on.So please, switch off your television and come here to see what Iran really is ! !
So my first stop in Iran was in Tabriz. The 3rd biggest city in Iran i think. A nice place actually where i met a nice person, Vincent. I visited the bazar, some mosques. I went for a walk on the hill surounding the city. Walk that ended under an incredible rain..even storm! I never had to do such a walk, 15 minutes at least, under such a storm! Also, i discovered how much eating will be a problem in Iran as it was in Turkey. One more "meat country" !
Next step: Tehran. More than ten millions inhabitants, cars, a lot of pollution....A big city like New-York or Istanbul ! But i like so much taxi rides in evenings in such cities...Everything seems to be so big and crazy. Also, Tehran is the place to see the evolved society of Iran. That s the place where every new thinking current is starting and is the place where our ideas of Iran can, the most, be hurted. I met Maryam and Dovoud her husband via the hospitalityclub. I stayed 3 days in Tehran and they o
ffered me the opportunity to meet really interesting people. The 1st day i visited t
he bazar, which is of course really huge. In the evening, i was invited to a "house party"....where iranians drink alcohol. But in a reasonable way. I met interesting people. These days i discovered the double lie of iranians : outside (women covered) and inside (almost like in Europe).
The week end on friday, i was also invited by Dovoud to an artist exhibition where i was again invited to taste some iranian hand-made wine and met a really nice familywhose man was a critic-journalist and was in 1979 one actor of the islamic revolution. We had a relly great talk about the revolution, the propagandist media, the US policy and so on.
Next day. Direction Kasan, 200 km south to Tehran. 1st real experience of hitchiking....and it is working really well! As i expected the people are 
not used to see hitchiker and then stop by curiosity. GreaT! An ice-cream on the way, a small ride in Qom the city on the way...and they drop me to take a bus to Kasan for the last 100km. In the bus, i meet 2 iranians girls. Really friendly they offer me to help me to find a hotel and to show me about Kasan the next day. Who sait it was impossible to have any contact with girls in Iran ??! Of course, they ask me to answer, in the case someone is asking about what i m doing with these girls, that i m a friend of the father...
In the evening, i find myself the only man betw
een 10 women for the diner in the park and a visit to a friend of them wich is a professional Tar player, the traditional persian instrument (from which is coming the guitars for example)....Antoher example of the wonderful persian culture....
een 10 women for the diner in the park and a visit to a friend of them wich is a professional Tar player, the traditional persian instrument (from which is coming the guitars for example)....Antoher example of the wonderful persian culture....
Today, i spent the day with these ladies visiting Kasan and its historical houses....
Tomorrow i m leaving for the mythical Esfahan !
