After a week of reports from the field back in Iran, I will continue, slowly, making further posts on the original focus of this blog: trips, food, and photography.
We cannot ignore what’s happening there: as soon as I receive further news from my great Iranian friends I’ll post here.
Meanwhile, I’ll tell you about my impressions while I was in Iran, such a enchanting country, with one of the greatest hospitality in the world, with intelligent people — who are not necessarily happy with their Islamic government.
Iranian bazaars are colourful, vibrant, busy, and diverse.
We find vine leaves for sale — $ 3,000 toman, as they usually call it, or IRR$ 30,000 Rials, their official currency. This would be around USD$ 3. The amount of leaves? I haven’t learned yet how to read Persian, but only the Persian numbers. They stuff them with several ingredients: it’s called Dolmeh.
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vine leaves
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Although not frequently, we can also find some tea — here, some 14,000 toman, or IRR$ 140,000:
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tea
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And more:
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rose tea
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At the bird market, in Esfahan, we find artificially painted baby chicken, as well as beautiful birds.
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artificially coloured chicks
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beautiful birds
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And we also find delicious strawberries to add some more colours:
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strawberries
kkkkk… Pintinhos coloridos foram os únicos bichinhos de estimação que eu tive na infância.
Ah! Também tive uma tracajá (a Traquinha), só que ela acabou na panela (c’est la vie!)
besos.
For vine leaves is 2000 Toman Not 300 Toman and for tea 14000 Toman Too
toman=تومان
Rial=ریال
cheers