10 years in the making. After travelling to this amazing place for the last decade, we're finally doing a tour to Iran and we’re very excited to show you all these places that we’ve explored ourselves and fallen in love with. Of course we’ll follow the main tourist trail so that you can see all the highlights of Isfahan, Shiraz, and such-like, but we then head far off the tourist trail into the west of the country to some places that barely ever see tourists, let alone foreign ones.
Beginning in Tehran we’ll visit the former US Embassy, the Holy Defence Museum, Nature Bridge, and experience the night-life and the hipster café culture. We’ll then stop at the famous red village of Abyaneh before seeing all that Isfahan, Meybod, Yazd and Shiraz have to offer, including gardens, mosques, ruins, stunning views, Persepolis and much more.
In there you’ll get a chance for a really unique desert experience where we’ll go dune bashing and ride buggies, before staying with locals in a small village where we’ll spend the night cooking shashlik, smoking shisha, and perhaps even having a little drink.
Heading more into the unknown, we’ll visit towns you’ve never heard of like Ramhormoz, Shushtar and Dezful. You’ll see the amazing Fire Mountain, a rocky hill literally on fire, go on some truly spectacular drives, visit ancient ruins, and eating in restaurants where they’ll be so confused by your presence you’ll be lucky if you get fed.
The tour will be topped off with our last stop being the awe-inspiring cave of Ali Sadr, before we return to Tehran. If you want to keep traveling through the Middle East with us after this, check out our Lebanon and Syria Summer Tour.
If you like the look of this tour but the dates don't work for you, or you'd like to do part of the tour, please get in touch and let us know. All our tours are able to be split into smaller sections, we're always scheduling new tours and your dates might work for one of them, or we can always organise an independent tour.
If you'd like to see some more of the Middle East while you're here, check out our Middle East Extravaganza Tour , which continues on to Syria and Lebanon .
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Accommodation in twin share at roughly 3 star hotels, breakfast included |
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Transport as per itinerary |
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Entrance fees to all sites mentioned in itinerary |
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SAIGA guide and local guides |
SINGLE SUPPLEMENT: $495
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Visa fee |
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Visa support if necessary |
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Meals other than breakfast at accommodation |
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Transport to and from the start and end of tour |
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Personal expenses such as souvenirs or any optional activities |
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PCR Tests and any other COVID related expenses |
Stare into the mesmerising flames of Tashkooh, Fire Mountain
Soak in the unbelievable colours at the cave of Ali Sadr
Enjoy shashlik in the desert with locals