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Hi,
1- Actually, best time to visit Iran is February to May. And It completely depends on your preferences. If you are OK with cold weather, there are tourist attractions in winter, too. However, south of Iran has tropical climate and is warmer in winter. I suppose your plan is visiting tourist attraction in cities, rather than in nature, so you can find activities to do at nights too.
2- 350-400$ (excluding transportation) is a bit tight but not impossible. Assuming 30$ per day (almost according your budget), you can find cheap accommodation in hostel and motels for 7 or 8 $ per night, you can manage your food up to 8$ per day. Therefore, you have 14$ for visiting tickets. In some cities, such as Tehran and Isfahan it would not be enough at all, but you maybe can compensate it in other cities.
3- Most tourist attractions are open in winter. Your examples are quite open, even more attractive in snow. But you have to keep in mind that heavy snow can disturb some activities such as inter-city or intra-city traffic for one or two days (for each region).
4- Yes, there are plenty of them. You can search Iranian booking websites, in English. But maybe, cheaper hostels would not be available on the net.
5- Actually, it is not good enough. But as I said it depends on your preferences.
6- At 10 or 11 o’clock at night, you can have activities to do in metropolises like Tehran. But in smaller cities Like Qom and Kashan I am not sure.

I have to say, your rough plan needs much modification to be practical and on-budget. For example, I suggest you to visit Tehran on your arrival and after visiting Isfahan, take a train straight to Mashhad (passing central and eastern deserts of Iran) instead of coming back to Tehran. Even you can stay one or two days in Tabas to visit “Halvan desert of Tabas.”
Also, I do not know what kind of tourist attractions you prefer. Your given examples (chair lift, different caves, Filband village) are natural sights out of the cities. So, for some of them, such as caves, I suppose you would have difficulties to go there without a rental private car.
However, if you decide to come to Iran, I can help you for your itinerary. And you are welcomed for a one or two-day tour in Tehran by my car for free, since I live in Tehran.
Good Luck

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We went for 3 nights, 2 days. The weather was terrible, freezing cold and you could not see the mountains at all because the cloud was so low but it was one of my best trips ever! You can walk down the road to Cat Ba(?) village yourself. It was just amazing! I would do it again in a heartbeat.

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Sounds like a terrible plan to me. Weather is of course variable from year to year, but we were all over the Midi-Pyrenées last year at the end of March, beginning of April (both French and Spanish sides), and it was freezing cold, rainy, windy, sleeting, foggy...you name it - and we weren't hiking but rather renting apartments, staying in hotels, visiting spa towns, etc., so did not really have to contend with the elements much. We did very much appreciate Le Bus à Un Euro for transport.

Find somewhere else to carry out this plan. It's not as though you're not spoiled for choices.

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...next week will be warmer again. But be aware that weather can change very rapidly in the Alps. Nobody knows whether the first week of Septembe will be sunny and warm or if there will be snowfall at Index and Lac Blanc.

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Great Mediterranean Coast Hike - Day 1 | Argelès-sur-Mer, Collioure, Port-Vendres​​​​​​​

We are excited to share with you these video series of our Mediterranean hike that we did this year and hopefully it will be continued. These video series is devoted to the Catalonian part of it, starting from the French village Argelès-sur-Mer in Pyrénées-Orientales all the way to the Spanish village of Cadaqués and Cap de Creus cape on the Costa Brava. Immerse yourself in the peaceful holiday mood and we bet you'll find a place to put on your travel bucket list and to visit on your next vacation. Or even dare to do this hike yourself!

It was our first major hike that we ever did, we ended up doing 80+ km and it took us 7 days to accomplish. We chose to go backpacking, carrying our tent, and stay in the camping sites on the way. This hike is great to do in spring(May-June) or autumn(September-October), as the heat in summer can be pretty extreme. We enjoyed so much doing it in the late May-beginnings of June with all the blossom and smells around along with favorable weather conditions that we would highly recommend it to everyone. The hike can be broken up in as many parts as you wish by doing as many kms a day as you can. We did on average 12-15 km a day being loaded with 10-15kg backpacks and found it to be a golden mean, but depending on your physical state you may choose to do more or less. It will also depend on whether you'll go with a heavy backpack or not. The route is very well signed and we have a very little complains about it. On the way you can either stay in the hotels, guest houses etc. or campings as we did, and became the true fans of this kind of stay. The camping sites are very developed in the area and can meet everyone's needs, not to mention the reasonable prices that is available to everyone. This kind of experience you won't forget. Also it is a good idea to stay for longer in a village that you really like to get to know it better and then continue on with the hike. The whole experience makes up for an unforgettable active trip!

It was our first day of the Great Mediterranean Hike when we walked 17 km from Argeles Plage to Port-Vendres outskirts. It is all started the night before when it was raining cats and dogs and the wind was blowing fiercely. Because of that we woke up pretty late in the morning and even considered for a moment to give up on a hike because of the bad weather. But we've been already postponing this hike for so long because of that so finally we put ourselves together and started walking. Luckily the weather was favourable all day long. And even though it was the weekend we didn't met too many people on the way. The day was full of great views, different landscapes, and exceptional variety of flowers (some of them we haven't even seen before!). We enjoyed very much the route that goes from Argeles to Couilloure, it is not very long, but still offers you all the richness of landscapes of the region. We got lost several times in small villages but finally managed to find the route signs, just had to look close. There was no long gaps between the marking, they were everywhere. First, we walked through Argeles village which is by our opinion a perfect holiday destination for everybody with nice wide sandy beaches, lots of activities offered and plenty of campings to stay in. Then we entered the village of Couilloure where the architecture that surrounds you speaks for itself, it immerses you in the history and creates bohemian atmosphere. Finally we reached Port-Vendres where we had a little time to spend but our first impression was that it is an old city with quite a big port with deep waters (we've seen a cruise ship parked there) and active fishing market(we could say it by a strong smell of fresh fish). At the end of the day we were running out of time, the sun was setting and we realized that we won't get to our planned destination which was Banyuls-sur-Mer. It meant that we had to walk around 8 km more to our camping and we very already more than tired. So we had no other option left that just find a place to stealth camp. So we had to gather our powers and walk several kms more till we find a spot at a vineyard close to the seaside. It was the only place with relatively flat surface and it is the most unusual place we've camped at so far. So we quickly prepared and ate some dinner and fell asleep right away overwelmed by the first and is it turned out the hardest day of our trip. 

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First time I've heard of someone going to Sanlucar de Barrameda, I even had to look it up, lol!

Arcos de la Frontera is one obvious suggestion, being very close to where you are going. Weather depending, you could also visit the white towns of the Grazalema / Ronda area, such as Setenil de las Bodegas, Zahara de la Sierra, etc. If the weather is nice you could go hiking to Garganta Verde, El Torreon, as well as the twin peaks of Simancon/Reloj above Grazalema.

El Caminito del Rey, though refurbished for mass tourism, is also an interesting option. The area of El Torcal makes for an interesting hike.

You could cycle on one of the via verde - old railways turned into cycling paths. Popular ones are around Olvera and Cabra.

If you're going to Almeria, you can also visit the seaside of Cabo de Gata nature park. And on the way there you can go to some white towns of the Alpujarras, such as Capileira and Trevelez.

In northern part, Baeza and Ubeda are both UNESCO listed top sights, but for me personally Cazorla and the mountainous area around is a bigger draw.

A lot will depend on weather, could be +17C and sunny or +11C and rain. I wouldn't have too high expectations.

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Hi all!

I’m considering a trip to São Tomé and Príncipe over Christmas/New Year, and was wondering if anyone here has an opinion on what the weather will be like in late December/early January?

I know the holidays fall in the middle of what is technically the rainy season, but it would be good to have some clarity around what “the rainy season” actually entails, e.g. warmer weather with regular rain showers in the afternoon (as is the case in most tropical climates), or more substantial and potentially tiresome deluges of rain.

Typically, I’ve found that the rainy season in most equatorial climates actually equates to bluer skies (when it isn’t raining, of course), but it would be great if people with experience from traveling to São Tomé and Príncipe could weigh in!

Thanks!

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We don't know what you are interested in, and neither do you until you do some basic research. I'd advise getting a copy of Lonely Planet guidebook which has some basic itinerary suggestions and lots of information re travel.

Happy to thereafter answer specific questions.

But yes, in December you'd likely get warmer weather in the south of the country.


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Title:Top 12 Things To Do In Port Issac, Cornwall

Destinations covered: Port Issac, Cornwall

Theme: Destination guide

Style: Travel/Destination guide

Synopsis: Port Issac is a beautiful British seaside holiday destination. A traditional fishing village in north Cornwall and home to the television series Doc Martin, starring Martin Clunes. It is a truly picturesque village with narrow winding streets lined with whitewashed cottages, that head down to the harbour where you can watch local fishermen landing their daily catch of fish, crab and lobsters.

URL:https://www.goliveyoung.com/top-10-things-port-issac/

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..... an up-date on the current weather in Morocco, according to the link below very cold weather prevails on high ground and across northern Morocco. While south of the High Atlas, the souther provinces and the Atlantic coast south of the High Atlas have mild and warm temperatures generally. Agadir looks like a good base at the moment.

https://www.bladi.net/maroc-meteo-aujourdhui,53431.html

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