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A foodie tour of Iran: it’s poetry on a plate

A foodie tour of Iran: it’s poetry on a plate

magine a verdant, landscape filled with rice paddies, tea plantations and olive groves. A land where you...
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A motorcycling adventure across Iran: ‘the standout attraction is the people’

A motorcycling adventure across Iran: ‘the standout attraction is the people’

n the dining room of a remote hotel in Iran’s Alborz Mountains was a locked glass case...
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Trekking Iran’s Lut desert: a wild, remote adventure – in pictures

Trekking Iran’s Lut desert: a wild, remote adventure – in pictures

Iran’s Dasht-e Lut with its giant dunes, salt plains and kaluts provides an epic journey of breathtaking...
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Iran picks up in popularity

Iran picks up in popularity

Some may be surprised, others will be expecting the numbers to be on these lines, but the...
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The foodie traveller … in Tehran’s Grand Bazaar

The foodie traveller … in Tehran’s Grand Bazaar

In Farsi, tah means bottom, while chin suggests the idea of layering; tah-chin is the unpretentious, crusty...
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Trek the Lut desert

Trek the Lut desert

The Dasht-e Lut desert, one of the Earth’s hottest and driest places, is a (hardy) trekker’s dream,...
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Valley of the Assassins

Valley of the Assassins

A walking tour based around the eponymous 1934 travelogue by the explorer Freya Stark, showcasing the greener...
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Climb Mount Damavand

Climb Mount Damavand

It takes four days to reach the summit of the country’s highest mountain, a 5,671-metre volcano. Base...
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