Various Places, Various pics! III Southern Comfort
The third trip was southward first to Isfahan, where the french had gone the day before, then from there to Yazd and then to Shiraz where we would part ways one going westward to the huzestan, the province which bore the brunt of the Iran-Iraq war and the other two going back to Tehran to fly to India.
I skip the Isfahan trip for now and won't post more pictures from Yazd now (I have major technical difficulties with my MP3 player) and go strait to pictures from Shiraz, where the history is rich, the weather is agreeable (compare to both Tehran and Yazd) and the girls are pretty.
The Citidal of Karim Khan Zand in the dawn of Shiraz. The founder of Zand Dynesty, he has a very good reputation regardless of the political color of the person speaking of him. The only person I know that emitated hate toward him was Agha Mohhamad Khan the founder of Qajar dynesty who has a universal reputation of being a sychopathic and ruthless ruler. This place served as a his place of governance and residance.
The Nagsh-e-Rostam. This place is the burial site of four of the Achaemenians kings. Like most religions in Zoroasterian religion the dead body is dirty and since they have soil of the earth as one of the holy elements they actually leave the body on the surface and the body is basically recycled. and like most places Kings are treated differently even in their death so the body is placed in the half circular man made cave and the door of the tomb is covered by the a heavy stone.
From right to left, Tombs of Xerxes (Khashayarsha), Darius I (the great) father of Xerxes, Ardeshir deraz dast (Artaxerxes the far reacher (I) amd Darius II. The sasanid dynesty has made several ingravings comemorating events of their period just below the tombs of the Achaemenians kings. The Sassanids claim decendance form the Achaemenians and in this place they made their tribute to them in this fashion.
There is a memorial from Ilami perios (who ruled in a territory of today's south west Iran before the Persians) but a very insignificant Sassanid king has defaced the old memorial by making a new one exactly in the center of it.
Shapour the Great the second king of the Sassanid period holds Valerian's hand and Phillip the Arab kneel before him. This monument marks the dedeat of the Romans and their tributary state which was located around the northern edge of the Arabian Desert. Shapour was still in the mothers womb when his father died, his mother was his regent until he became mature (no age is known for his maturity)
Top section of a Takhte- Jamshid (Perspolis) Column. If you are wondering I did not climbed it, the middle section is gone so they are actually a little more than a man's height.
A reality Check, this small demonstration in Shiraz is a government sponsored (P.S. term=Encouraged) event. one of the French just walked into the crowd to take better pictures (WTF) and a bank clerk started talking to him. The man told him don't think all Shirazis are like this is just to show our objection to the Israeli actions. It doesn't make sense he was there to hear a guy who looked too much like AhmadiNezhad (lie Bush, he is getting better in his speaches as the time passe) but he is trying to say that majority of Shirazis are not here (which was true, the Demonstration was maybe two or three times the size of theones in San Diego on a Weekend) Anyhow we rushed to see Vakil Bazzar, Vail Bath and get some Breakfast.
I skip the Isfahan trip for now and won't post more pictures from Yazd now (I have major technical difficulties with my MP3 player) and go strait to pictures from Shiraz, where the history is rich, the weather is agreeable (compare to both Tehran and Yazd) and the girls are pretty.
The Citidal of Karim Khan Zand in the dawn of Shiraz. The founder of Zand Dynesty, he has a very good reputation regardless of the political color of the person speaking of him. The only person I know that emitated hate toward him was Agha Mohhamad Khan the founder of Qajar dynesty who has a universal reputation of being a sychopathic and ruthless ruler. This place served as a his place of governance and residance.
The Nagsh-e-Rostam. This place is the burial site of four of the Achaemenians kings. Like most religions in Zoroasterian religion the dead body is dirty and since they have soil of the earth as one of the holy elements they actually leave the body on the surface and the body is basically recycled. and like most places Kings are treated differently even in their death so the body is placed in the half circular man made cave and the door of the tomb is covered by the a heavy stone.
From right to left, Tombs of Xerxes (Khashayarsha), Darius I (the great) father of Xerxes, Ardeshir deraz dast (Artaxerxes the far reacher (I) amd Darius II. The sasanid dynesty has made several ingravings comemorating events of their period just below the tombs of the Achaemenians kings. The Sassanids claim decendance form the Achaemenians and in this place they made their tribute to them in this fashion.
There is a memorial from Ilami perios (who ruled in a territory of today's south west Iran before the Persians) but a very insignificant Sassanid king has defaced the old memorial by making a new one exactly in the center of it.
Shapour the Great the second king of the Sassanid period holds Valerian's hand and Phillip the Arab kneel before him. This monument marks the dedeat of the Romans and their tributary state which was located around the northern edge of the Arabian Desert. Shapour was still in the mothers womb when his father died, his mother was his regent until he became mature (no age is known for his maturity)
Top section of a Takhte- Jamshid (Perspolis) Column. If you are wondering I did not climbed it, the middle section is gone so they are actually a little more than a man's height.
A reality Check, this small demonstration in Shiraz is a government sponsored (P.S. term=Encouraged) event. one of the French just walked into the crowd to take better pictures (WTF) and a bank clerk started talking to him. The man told him don't think all Shirazis are like this is just to show our objection to the Israeli actions. It doesn't make sense he was there to hear a guy who looked too much like AhmadiNezhad (lie Bush, he is getting better in his speaches as the time passe) but he is trying to say that majority of Shirazis are not here (which was true, the Demonstration was maybe two or three times the size of theones in San Diego on a Weekend) Anyhow we rushed to see Vakil Bazzar, Vail Bath and get some Breakfast.
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