Adam Teale: News From Above

After nearly a year since visiting Iran I have finally cut together a video.
If you get a chance check it out and then book a ticket to Iran!

Iran Trip 2009 from Adam Teale on Vimeo.
In February 2009 I was fortunate to spend 3 weeks traveling in Iran (a.k.a Persia).
In those 3 weeks I got to [...]

I am jumping the gun a little here with my posts on Iran but I really wanted to get these photos up.
Here are some portraits of the guys that I shared the cabin with on the Train from Tabriz (Iran) to Van (Turkey). These guys were very friendly but unfortunately none of us could speak [...]

With Yolly off to Turkey and Tobi making his way to India (either “hitchhiking” a container ship from Bandar Abbas or flying from Dubai) it was time for me to start to make my way towards Turkey.
I took the overnight bus from Shiraz to Tehran, checked back into the Mashad Hotel on Amir Kabir street [...]

From Yazd Yolly, Tobi & myself made our way with bags of Cheetos to Shiraz – “known as the city of poets, flowers and wine”. Well I didn’t get to appreciate any of the poetry, not sure if I saw any flowers, no fine wine, but did manage to drink REAL BEER! Normally i [...]

After a afternoon bus from Esfahan, about 5 hours, I made it to Yazd and to one of the more cool hostels I have stayed in – The Silk Road. If u ever come here make sure u give this place a look. Cheapo 40,000rial/night dorm beds to some apparently nice “proper” hotel rooms. The [...]

“Hello hello, where are you from?”
The catchcall of this stint in Iran.

In the first day in Esfahan I think Tobi & I must have met 15 people and some of them we chatted with for hours. Within minutes it seems people are pretty keen to get onto talking about religion and the government. [...]

I spent less 48 hours in Tehran so don’t have a huge amount to post. We arrived late saturday night / sunday morning and the streets we empty – very ghost town like. It did make sense though – if ur not out boozing it up and busting a groove in a club somewhere why [...]

5pm, 12th February, 2009
I made it. Well at least onto the Trans-Asya Expressi train that is. From here, Kayseri (Turkey), it’s a 49+ hour journey to Tehran. Today turned out to be pretty cool. I managed to wakeup as planned @ 6.30 this morning, the bus from Goreme was only 30 mins behind schedule. [...]

If all things go to plan I’ll be catching the first thing smoking (the Trans Asya Expressi train) from Kayseri (Turkey) to Tehran (Iran) – a 2 to 3 day journey over what should be some very interesting countryside.
I am currently in Goreme taking it easy and cheaply after covering a fair bit of [...]

Excellent news, my application for an Iranian visa was accepted! Picked up the visa this morning. Rock on!

I applied for it in Istanbul, Turkey. It took 10 days for approval from Iran. €50.