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16 Nights / 17 Days SHRINE
Tour to IRAN ( 16 )
Tehran- Mashad –
Kerman – Yazd –
Shiraz – Isfahan – Kashan -
- 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 – Mashad
Full day sightseeing of Tehran:
Golestan palace, Great Bazaar,
and Central Bank treasures (if opens ) Abbassi
Museum , Sadabad palace ( former shah residence).
Transfer to Train Station for departure to Mashad by Night Deluxe
Sleeping Train (Green Line).
Arrival to Mashad, transfer to hotel, and overnight.
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Day 04
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Mashad
A.M. Excursion to Tus
to visit the Tomb of the epic Poet
Ferdowsi and the village of Torghabeh.
P.M. City sightseeing and visit the Shrines of his Holiness Imam
Reza, and overnight
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Day 05
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Mashad
Full day Excursion to Neishabour, the city of immaculate turquoise,
also embrace the tomb of three great men- Omar Khayam, Sheik
Attar, and Kamal-ol-Molk.
The tomb of Imam Zadeh Mohrouque and a hill known as Alp Aesalan are
among the spots in Neishabour worth visiting.
Return to Mashad, and overnight.
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Day 06
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Mashad-Kerman
Transfer to airport for departure to Kerman by afternoon flight, and
overnight.
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Day 07
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Kerman-Bam-Kerman (195x2 kms.)
Full day excursion to Bam:
Arg-e-Bam, the oldest sign of civilization
found in the Bidroun hills located 10 kms to the west
of the city. Archaeological survey indicates that Bidroun
hills date back to 4th. millennium BC.
Arg-e-Bam is a gem of
Iranian historical sites and is one of the most beautiful buildings of the Ashkanian era. It is the largest
adobe building in the world, like a glorious fort.
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On the way back to Kerman visiting Mahan and the tomb of
Shah Nur-eddin Nematollah Vali, poet, sage, Sufi and
founder of an order of dervishes.
Bagh-e-Shazdeh , which was the summer residence of Qajar princes and
now restored and converted into a sumptuous restaurant.
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Day 08
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Kerman – Yazd ( 361 kms )
A.M. Tour of Ganj Ali Khan complex, which includes a school, bath,
carvansary, market, water reservoir and square.
Ganj Ali Khan bath was in use until half a century back. An
exquisite blunt of art and architecture.
P.M. Drive to Yazd and overnight.
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Day 09
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Yazd
Full day sightseeing of typical desert city of Yazd:
Amir Chakhmaq Mosque (Built in 14th century AD), Joma
Mosque, (built on a site of a Sassanian fire temple),
Bazaar, Atashkadeh the most important Zoroatrian fire
temple. Yazd with its villages is the most important
gathering center for Zoroastrians who are living in this
area from ancient times. There is a sacred place called
Pir-e-Sabz-e-Check-Check at 72 Km of this city where some
Zoroastrian from different part of the world gather for
religious ceremonies every summer.
Overnight at Yazd.
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Day 10
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Yazd – Shiraz ( 425 kms )
Departure by coach to Shiraz, en-route visiting the ruins of
Passargad, the first capital
of Iranian
tribes and the Achaemenian
Empire, overnight at Shiraz.
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Day 11
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Shiraz
Full day City sightseeing Shiraz:
The Citadel of Karim Khan Zand, Vakil mosque, 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,
overnight at Shiraz.
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Day 12
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Shiraz – Isfahan (485 kms )
Departure to Isfahan, en-route visiting Persepolis (the capital of
the great Persian empire, Persepolis is the greatest
monument indicating the glory and magnificent of the ancient
Persia, Naghsh-e-Rostam (the Tomb is entirely built of
Megalithic Stone), and 4 reliefs of Naghsh-e-Rajab,
overnight at Isfahan.
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Day 13
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Isfahan
Full day sightseeing of Isfahan:
Imam Square ( Maidan-e-Nagsh-e-Jahan ) this square is 80,000 sq
meters and twice as large as Moscow's Red square, Ali Qapu
(a magnificent palace), Hasht Behesht palace ,Imam Mosque,
Sheikh lutfullah mosque,
Bazaar, Qaisarieh, and overnight .
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Day 14
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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 15
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Isfahan – Natanz – Abyaneh – Kashan ( 246kms )
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 16
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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
with a visit to the golden shrine of Imam Khomeini,
overnight at Tehran.
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Day 17
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Tehran
Transfer to airport for final departure.
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