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| Day 1 - Tehran Arrive Tehran, meet & transfer to the hotel. O/night |
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| Day 2 - Tehran - Kerman Morning visit to Archaeological, Glassware & Ceramic and Ethnological museums as well as Golestan Palace. PM flight to Kerman. O/night Kerman. |
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| Day 3 - Kerman - Rayen - Kerman Full day excursion to the city of Rayen to see Rayen Citadel dating to the 5th century. (This city is similar to the Bam Citadel which was destroyed in the recent earthquake.) On return, visit Shazadeh Garden in Mahan then to the shrine of Shah Nematollah – one of the most prominent Persian Sufis. O/night Kerman. |
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| Day 4 - Kerman - Yazd Morning visit to small Zoroastrian temple called “Bound Agha Bad”, Ganjalikhan Public Bath museum and covered bazaar and Jame mosque. Immediate drive to Yazd - the Mecca of the Zoroastrians. O/night |
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| Day 5 -Yazd Full day visit to the Zoroastrian Towers of Silence and Fire Temple. A Temple guardian will give a lecture on Zoroastrianism & the temple itself. Continue our tour by seeing the Doulat Abad garden with its highest ventilation tower of the world, Jame & Mirchaqmakh mosques. O/night Yazd. |
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| Day 6 -Yazd Excursion to a purely Zoroastrian village called Cham (12 km from Yazd). Here a small group of Zoroastrians live on cattle breeding and farming. Not far from the village there is a Tower of Silence on top of which the inhabitants of the village used to put the corpses of their relatives until 60 years ago. The small fire niches in the houses are also worthy of note and signs of their commitments to their ancestors. Return to Yazd. Continue to the village of Chak Chak (known as the Kaba of Zoroastrians) to visit the Shrine of Pir Sabz. O/night at the local inn or tents. |
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| Day 7 - Yazd Excursion to the shrines of Seti Pir temple, Asadan castle in Khour; Pir Herisht and the temple of Banou Pars, back to Yazd. Rest of day free for shopping in the old bazaar. O/night Yazd. |
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| Day 8 -Yazd - Abarquo – Passargadae - Shiraz Drive to Shiraz, en route visit the 4000 yr old Cypress tree in Abarquo. Next we visit Passargae to see the tomb of Cyrus the Great and the nearby sites in Passargadae. O/night Shiraz. |
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| Day 9 -Shiraz Full day sightseeing including Eram garden, Narenjistan museum, the tombs of the great lyric poets – Hafiz & Saadi, Nassirolmolk mosque, the old bazaar of Vakil as well as its mosque. O/night Shiraz. |
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| Day 10 - Shiraz - Firouzabad – Shiraz Full day excursion to Firouzabad to visit Sassanian ruins of palaces, the remains of Shahr-e-Gour and Zoroastrian Fire Temple. Evening flight to Isfahan. O/night Isfahan. |
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| Day 11 - Isfahan Full day sightseeing including the old bridges, the palaces of Hasht Behesht & Chehel Sotoun, Armenian Vank cathedral as well as its museum and the Zoroastrian Fire Temple. O/night Isfahan. |
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| Day 12 - Isfahan Visit in the morning to Jame mosque then continue visiting the magnificent Naqsh-e- Jahan square with its breathtaking mosques of Imam and Sheikh Lotfollah as well as Ali Qapu palace. PM free for shopping in the old bazaar. O/night Isfahan. |
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| Day 13 - Isfahan - Kashan - Tehran Drive back to Tehran, en route visiting the sites in Kashan. O/night Tehran. |
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| Day 14 - Tehran Morning meeting at the Zoroastrian Central Institute for a lecture. PM free at leisure. O/night Tehran |
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| Day 15 - Tehran Transfer to the Int’l airport. |
