Safe Travelling in Iran

I traveled to Iran because I wanted to see if the conflictive view most people get from the outside is accurate or real.
As it pleasantly turned out, in many ways it is not.

Iran is a conflicted place, a misunderstood destination, a cradle of culture, a million things all at once. Iran is a country where contrasting understandings of the world live side by side every day and everywhere. One of the countries I longed to visit since infancy happened to be another jewel on the globe’s map and probably the safest country in the region.

Iran is a huge, it occupies1.6m sq. km. even though Mercator’s projection distorts our perception of its vast surface. Its borders reach the same latitude as Athens and the southern boundary falls on the edge of the Tropic of Cancer. It is six times the size of Britain and three times that of France. Iran is really big.

Tehran is the first city I visited and I can heartily say that it is not only the capital of Iran but a capital of contradictions.
We’re landing in Tehran and the first impression I get is ssssilence…
The Imam Khomeini Intl. Airport is the second quietest airport I’ve ever been to, second only to the Pyongyang Sunan Intl. Airport in North Korea. And again, like in Pyongyang, our luggage was already there waiting for us.
Tehran is a lively peculiar city. On the one hand Iranians are notorious for their friendliness and hospitality, their unrestrained kindness, their love for culture and luxury, their passion for ornamentation of their art and their sense of amour propre, yet their restrictions and sensitivities are widely displayed.Here we will see that just as the stylised expressions of the language provide a stable environment where the most within which the most passionate and antithetical emotions are set free, so the enclosed and carefully structured Pardis (the origin of our ‘paradise’), provides a setting in which a wide variety of spiritual and secular activities take place in the same space.

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