Category: Tourist Attractions of Iran

Tappo Cave

30 kilometers away from Shahrekord and in the heart of a mountain that has big rocks like Tappo, there is a cave and in order to reach the mouth of it, you should move past the only centuries-old cypress tree at the Thalweg of the valley as far as 600 meters. In the local terms, Tappo is attributed to Silos made of mud and straw that were used to store…

Bandar Lengeh Coast to Bandar Abbas

Among all of these, the silence and quietude of the beach are broken by the frequent laughter of a child persuading her father to play with her in the water. Hence, Bandar Lengeh Coast to Bandar Abbas This coastal road that connects Bandar Lengeh to Bandar Abbas has a lot of beautiful and spectacular landscapes; such as the sunset in the mountainous area. Park Dolat with its appropriate welfare equipment and…

Siraf Archaeological Museum

As we enter Assaluyeh city, we come to a city with the same nights and days because of the flames of refinery and gas smell that does not let us smell any other odor. Siraf Archaeological Museum After going for 36 kilometers, we reach Taheri (Siraf) seaport that is located 240 kilometers away from the southeast of Bushehr. In the following, we go to the house of doctor Whitehouse, a British…

Mond Protected Area

Large and small groups of deer attract us from a distant place to the Mond Protected Area; at 180 km away from the southeast part of Bushehr. This plain-desert area is located along the Bord Khun district in Deyr County. Mond Protected Area with less than 10 meters high above sea level is situated as a plateau at the edge of the Persian Gulf. Four islands of Khan, Tahmadun, Nakhilo,…

Naiband Protected Area

Undoubtedly, habitat diversity, species variety, and coastal landscapes have made the Naiband protected area a unique example of the whole coastal regions of the Persian Gulf. This area is located 320 kilometers southeast of Bushehr port. The remains of the Naiband port and headland offer the long historical background of this region; so that, at the time of Buyids, this port was considered as one of the major ports; and…

Khurheh Temple

On the way from Arak to Kashan, we can see the ruins of a temple or a summer house that has two Greek columns made of travertine on its side. The capitals of the Khurheh temple have the Ionic style which came from ancient Greek art. Khurheh Mahallat is a historical monument that has remained from the Parthian and also through the Islamic and Seljuk period. Among the local and…

Armenian Church

If you look at the building from an overlooking tall location, you can see a cross shape that on the courtyards on both sides of it are the places to bury the dead. Apart from the cross shape of a building and the cross on the graves, nobody might notice that the building is a church; because it has no bell tower at all. Armenian Church Gregory Armenian Church in Shanbadi…

Hafez Mausoleum

Hafez mausoleum/ Hafezieh is located in northern Shiraz and is where Hafez, a great Iranian poet, was buried. The importance of this poet is so much that Persian people put his book beside Qu'ran on their special table when the first day of spring or the Persian new year comes. It was built in 1452, 65 years after he was buried. The tomb’s dome is adorned with different mystical colors:…

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