Day By Day

Visiting some significant monuments and museums in Tehran such as Golestan Palace (the royal complex of Qajar era), carpet museum, Iran’s national museum, Abgineh museum (a very valuable glasses from the ancient), Milad tower (the sixth tallest telecommunication tower in the world), Saad Abad palace, the grand bazar of Tehran, stay at hotel overnight.

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• Meal: Breakfast
• Excursion: Included

Drive to Isfahan, arrival in Isfahan. Transfer to the hotel and stay at hotel over night.

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• Meal: Breakfast
• Excursion: Not Included

Full day tour of the beautiful city of Isfahan, the 17th century capital of the Safavid, referred to as Nesf-e-Jahan (Half of the World) in Safavid sources, to visit the famous bridges of Shahrestan/Khajou/Sio-se-pol, the Armenian Quarter with several churches, including the important Cathedral of Vank; in the afternoon visit one of the world’s grandest squares, the Maidan-e-Naghsh-e-Jahan, with several sites (the Ali-Qapu Palace with its enchanting music rooms and balcony overlooking the Maidan, from where the Safavid Kings watched polo games, and two of Islamic world’s greatest mosques – the Sheikh Lotfollah and the Imam – with magnificent architecture and tile-work, finishing with a visit to the Qeisarieh Bazaar with hundreds of shops displaying the arts and handicrafts for which Isfahan is world-famous; overnight stay at hotel.

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• Meal: Breakfast
• Excursion: Included

Further visits in Isfahan to include the magnificent Friday Mosque, with the famous Uljaitu Mihrab (Prayer Niche) of the Il-Khanid period. The Friday Mosque is considered a museum of a thousand years of Persian religious architecture and is truly one of the world’s greatest mosques. From here drive to the Chehel Sotun Palace, built by Shah Abbas II in the 17th century; its twenty wooden columns reflected in the surface of the pool give rise to its name ‘The Palace of Forty Columns’. Final stop of the day is at the Hasht Behesht pavilion built in 1670 by Shah Solayman and known as the Pavilion of Eight Paradises or the Palace of Nightingales. The small but intricate building is set amongst tree-lined alleys, a reflecting pool and water rills; return to the Maidan for further visit to handicraft shops and bazaar; overnight stay at hotel.

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• Meal: Breakfast
• Excursion: Included

Drive to Yazd, arrive to the city, check in the hotel and stay over night.

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• Meal: Breakfast
• Excursion: Not Included

Full day excursion in Yazd, the center for Iran’s small Zoroastrian community, to include one of the two Zoroastrian abandoned Towers of Silence (Dakhma), dating back to the 17th century, where until some 40-50 years ago the dead were carried and left to decompose and be devoured by birds; and the active Zoroastrian Fire Temple, the fire of which has been burning for about 1500 years. Among Yazd’s Islamic sites is the Friday Mosque (1324 A.D.) with the highest portal and minarets in Iran. Other notable Islamic monuments in the old Fahadan quarter of Yazd are the Seljuk shrine dedicated to the Twelve Shi’ite Imams; and Ziaieyeh Theological School, known as Zendan-e-Eskander or Alexander’s Prison. There are, also, many beautiful old houses in Yazd, among them Dowlat-Abad Garden, with an 18th century feudal hexagonal house; overnight stay at hotel.

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• Meal: Breakfast
• Excursion: Included

Drive to Kerman, arrive to the city, check in the hotel and stay over night.

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• Meal: Breakfast
• Excursion: Not Included

Take a short trip to Bam, a very old city near Kerman, visiting Shazdeh Mahan garden and also Rayen castle in Rayen. Visiting the blue tiled mausoleum of Shah Nemat Allah Vali. return to Kerman to see the Ganj-Ali-Khan Complex (17th century Safavid period bathhouse/caravanserai and bazaar), plus the Friday Mosque and bazaar; overnight stay at hotel.

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• Meal: Breakfast
• Excursion: Included

Drive to Shiraz, arrive to Shiraz, check in the hotel and stay over night.

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• Meal: Breakfast
• Excursion: Not Included

Full day city tour in Shiraz, visiting monuments such as Arge-Karimkhan, Vakil mosque, vakil bath, the holy tomb of Iran’s greatest lyric poet Hafez, the pink tiled 19th-century Nasir-ol-Molk Mosque, Shah- Cheraq holy shrine. Stay at hotel overnight.

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• Meal: Breakfast
• Excursion: Included

Full day excursion in Shiraz and visiting Persepolis, one of the most important sites of the Ancient World, the ceremonial capital of the Achaemenid kings with remains of the palaces of Darius the Great, Xerxes and Artaxerxes, and its famous bas-reliefs, depicting kings and courtiers and gift-bearing representatives of tributary nations of the Persian Empire; also visit Naghsh-e-Rostam to see Ka’be-Zardosht (fire temple/sanctuary), and Royal Tombs (also Achaemenid); plus seven magnificent Sassanian rock-reliefs (including Shapur the First’s famous victory over Roman Emperor Valerian). stay at hotel over night.

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• Meal: Breakfast
• Excursion: Included

Drive to Ahwaz, arrive to Ahwaz and check in the hotel and stay over night.

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• Meal: Breakfast
• Excursion: Not Included