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11 Nights / 12 Days ZIGGURAT
Tour to IRAN (11)
Tehran - Ahwaz(Susa) – Shiraz –
Isfahan – Tehran
Visit Iran Map for further information about cities and places of
interest.
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Day 01
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Arrival in Tehran:
Meet at the airport, transfer to hotel, and overnight.
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Day 02
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Tehran
Full day sightseeing of Tehran:
Archeological Museum, dating to 10,000 years, Glassware and Ceramics
Museum of ancient and Islamic collections, Carpet
Museum, and overnight .
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Day 03
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Tehran - Ahwaz
Full day Tehran sightseeing of Tehran:
Golestan palace, Great Bazaar,
and Central Bank treasures (if opens ) Abbassi
Museum , Sadabad palace ( former shah residence).
Transfer to Tehran airport for departure to Ahwaz by evening flight.
Meet at the airport, transfer to hotel, and overnight.
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Day 04
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Ahwaz
Full day excursion visiting Susa(capital city of Achaemenian kings),
Chogha Zanbil to visit Ziggurat of Elamite king Utash Gaul,
and overnight.
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Day 05
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Ahwaz - Shiraz
Full day drive to Shiraz, en-route visiting Bishpour, and overnight
in Shiraz.
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Day 06
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Shiraz
Full day City sightseeing Shiraz:
The Vakil complex, the Eram Garden (famous for its
cypress trees
), the Tomb of Hafez ( Hafez
spent most of his life in the native town), the Tomb
of Saadi ( Saadi unlike Hafez traveled extensively and upon
his return to Shiraz he wrote his most famous Boustan
- The orchard - and the Golestan - The Rose Garden.
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Day 07
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Shiraz – Isfahan(485 kms)
En-route visiting site of several ancient palaces:
Persapolis, Naghsh-e-Rostam, and Naghsh-e-Rajab.
Proceeding to Passargad, the impressive tomb of Cyrus the Great the
founder of the Persian Empire, also remains of several
palaces which are located in the plain of Dasht-e-Morghab,
continue to Isfahan, and overnight..
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Day 08
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Isfahan
Full day sightseeing of Isfahan:
Imam Square ( Maidan-e-Nagsh-e-Jahan ) this square is 80,000 sq
meters ( twice as large as Moscow's Red square), Ali Qapu (a
magnificent palace), Hasht Behesht palace ,Imam Mosque,
Sheikh lutfullah mosque,
Bazaar, and Qaisarieh .
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Day 09
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Isfahan
Full day sightseeing of
Isfahan:
Julfa ( Armenian quarter ) and
Vank Cathedral , Shaking Minarets, Zoroastarian
Ateshkadeh (fire temple), Si-o-se-pol , Khaju Bridge ,
Jame mosque , this is one of the oldest mosque still
standing in Iran, Chehel Sutun Palace, and overnight .
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Day 10
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Isfahan – Natanz – Abyaneh – Kashan ( 240 kms )
Departing by coach to Kashan, en-route visiting small city of Natanz
and its famous Jome Mosque also ancient village of Abyaneh,
then proceeding to Kashan and overnight.
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Day 11
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Kashan – Qom – Tehran (246 kms.)
Morning sightseeing of Kashan:
Fin Gardens and Broujerdi House, Agha-Bozorg mosque.
Continue to Qom (second holiest city in Iran with its Shrine of
Fatimah Masoumah sister of Imam Reza), en-route to Tehran
visiting the golden shrine of Imam Khomeini, and overnight.
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Day 12
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Tehran
Transfer to airport for final departure.
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