Maku Tourist Inn

Iran


By far Maku's classiest option, the Tourist Inn has comfortable rooms, hot water, friendly English-speaking staff and a reasonable restaurant. Staff will also organise agency taxis to surrounding sites, including Qareh Kalisa church and Dzor Dzor Chapel.


Lonely Planet's must-see attractions

Nearby Iran attractions

1. Kolah Farangi

0.23 MILES

This historic, octagonal late-Qajar mansion sits in a neglected garden accessed through the unmarked grey gates of a clinic just north of Chahara Sq.

2. Maku Fortress

0.46 MILES

Above the town, under the huge overhanging cliff, lie the ruins of Maku’s former citadel, where the Baha'i faith's Bab was imprisoned for nine months in…

3. Baghcheh Juq Palace Museum

4.27 MILES

Built for the sardar (military governor) of Qajar Shah Muzaffar al-Din (r 1896–1907), this striking two-storey mansion sits amid 11 hectares of orchards…

4. Dzor Dzor Chapel

7.64 MILES

Amazingly photogenic, this Unesco-listed Armenian chapel was relocated to higher ground once the nearby dam filled up. It's a hilly, sometimes snow…

5. Meteor Çukuru

10.21 MILES

A minor curiosity for those crossing the Iran–Turkey border with their own wheels, this deep hole – marked as a lake on some maps – is a crater made by a…

6. Qareh Kalisa

14.23 MILES

Sitting photogenically aloof on a barren knoll, 8km off the lonely Shot–Chaldoran road in the middle of nowhere, behind the low-rise village of the same…

7. Nuh'un Gemisi

17.57 MILES

Lines of rock form the vague shape of a boat on a hillside at Üzengili village, 30km southeast of Doğubayazıt. This constitutes one of half-a-dozen…

8. İshak Paşa Palace

25.35 MILES

There are few experiences as magical as watching a blazing sunset from behind this ridgetop stone structure, its dome and minaret silhouetted against a…