IRAN Sightseeing

Shevi Waterfall is one of the greatest and most beautiful waterfalls in Iran which is located in Zagros Mountains and in Sardash Area of Dezful licated in Khuzestan Province with a little distance from Lorestan Province and between Sartang Shevi Mountains, 10 kilometers from Tale Zang Rail station and on Tehran-South Railroad which is the easiest way to Loeestan Rail Station. Considered to be one of the...

By entering the secluded Dalkhani jungle, a world full of colorful dreams is waiting for you. You will feel freshness from the bottom of your heart. It seems God is taking a walk with you in this magnificent paradise. The freshness and cool weather of jungle drowns you; a jungle with high trees plus thick fog and excellent weather which is famous as the corridor of paradise because of tis beauties....

National Jewelry Museum is situated in the Treasury of Central bank of Islamic Republic of Iran. This treasury-museum lies in the construction of Iran’s Central Bank on Ferdowsi Street, Tehran. Many of the Iranian royal jewels from Safavid, Afshar, Qajar, and Pahlavi dynasties are presented in this museum. They include Darya-ye Noor Diamond, Jogheh Naderi (Naderi Paisley), Farah Pahlavi’s Crown, Kiani...

The Ramsar Palace is one of the historic buildings and royal residences in Iran. The palace is in Ramsar, a city on the coast of the Caspian Sea. The Ramsar Palace is a compact and modest residence with 600 square metres (6,500 sq ft) square meters area although it lies on a land of 60,000 square meters. It is a rectangular building with a single story, and is decorated with works by famous Iranian...

Qeshm’s Chahkooh Canyon is the Great Canyon of the Middle-East. The surreal shapes of the colossal rocks of the canyon are the result of millennia of erosion by rain and wind. Chahkooh’s notoriety among the natives as the abode of the Devil’s spawn has been advantageous to the region’s tourism. Many adventurous souls come to the canyon to visit the seat of the fiends. Hiking tours people the area...

Kish Island is a 35-square-mile island about 12 miles off the coast of Iran. Kish is the more luxurious and developed of the two main Iranian islands. Like Qeshm, it is also a free-trade zone, and foreign tourists require no visa for up to 14 days, meaning that even if you cannot make it to the mainland, you can still hop over to Kish to get a taste of Persian hospitality. Summers can be unbearably hot and...

The Sassanid Palace at Sarvestan is a Sassanid-period working in the Iranian area of Sarvestan, somewhere in the range of 90 km southeast from the city of Shiraz. The royal residence was implicit the fifth century AD, and was either a gubernatorial living arrangement or a Zoroastrian fire sanctuary. The Sarvestan Palace was worked by the Sasanian ruler Bahramgur (r. 420-438), and commands an enormous,...

Tabatabaei House is a historic house in Kashan, Iran. It was built in the early 1880s for the affluent Tabatabaei family. his 5,000 square-meters house is designed around an open central courtyard, which features a large pool and beautiful gardens. The house has forty rooms, four courtyards, four cellars, three wind towers and two Qanats, which supplied the required water to the house. The house is...

Darougheh House, a historical house in Mashhad was built by Russian architects in the late years of Qajar era. The house, which was built for the police chief of the northeastern city, has been registered as one of Iran’s national heritage sites. According to UNESCO, the conservation of Darougheh House has reinstated a significant component of the historic townscape of Mashhad. Based on in-depth...

Takht-e Soleyman is one of these names on the WH List that mean nothing unless you’ve been there. Takht-e Soleyman, also known as Azar Goshnasp, is an archaeological site in West Azarbaijan, Iran. It lies midway between Urmia and Hamadan, very near the present-day town of Takab, and 400 km (250 mi) west of Tehran. The archaeological site of Takht-e Soleyman, in north-western Iran, is situated in a...

Churat lake is placed near Sari city in Mazandaran province. Around the lake, you can see a European landscape. Churat Lake in Mazandaran Province is located in Chahardangeh in Sari County. The lake was created as a result of an earthquake in 1320 and landslide followed by the spring water being closed beside the lake. The lake is about 2.5 hectares. Being close to Churat Village, the lake is called...

Shahr-e Sukhte (meaning: The Burnt City), also spelled as Shahr-e, is an archaeological site of a sizable Bronze Age urban settlement, associated with the Jiroft culture. Shahr-e sukhteh represents the advent of the first complex societies in Sistan and Baluchistan province, southeastern part of Iran. It belongs to 3200 BC, and it was populated during four main periods up to 1800 BC, during the time when...