Abu Dhabi
Tehran
Qazvin
Qazvin - Rah Kushk Gate
Qazvin - Rah Kushk Gate - Detail
Qazvin - Chehel Sutun Palace
Qazvin - Chehel Sutun Palace - Window Detail
Qazvin - Chehel Sutun Palace - Manuscript
Qazvin - Amini's House - The Crowd
Qazvin - Amini's House - Ceiling Detail
Qazvin - Amini's House - Hall Ceiling
Qazvin - Amini's House
Qazvin - Amini's House - Cellars
Qazvin - Amini's House - Uschi in the Cellars
Qazvin - Imamzadeye Husein
Qazvin - Imamzadeye Husein - Uschi and her mum
Qazvin - Imamzadeye Husein - Uschi's mum and an old Persian lady
Qazvin - Jame Mosque
Tehran - Tochal, girls playing
Tehran - Tochal
Tehran - Tochal - Renate, Me, Uschi and Franziska
Tehran - Tochal - Me and Uschi
Tehran - From the mountains
Tehran - Butterfly near my room
Tehran - Uschi by the pool
Tehran - Trees in a park
Travelling through the Alborz
Travelling through the Alborz - Uschi and Me
Travelling through the Alborz - Uschi surveys the view (10000 feet)
Travelling through the Alborz - The Crowd
Travelling through the Alborz - Me (Showing off)
Travelling through the Alborz - The way down! (to Dizin)
Dizin - Guys on a tractor
The Caspian
The Caspian Me and "Aunt" Mitzi
The Caspian - Renate
Picnic stop
Travelling through the Alborz - Tea stop in the afternoon
Travelling through the Alborz - Mr H (The driver) serves afternoon tea
Travelling through the Alborz - Afternoon tea
Tehran - Me in the pool
Tehran - Bread stall at Tajrish Market
Tehran - Tajrish Bazaar
Tehran - Tajrish Bazaar - Uschi and stranger
Tehran - Pomegranate Juice Shop
Tehran - Who wants to be a millionaire
Tehran - Museum - Iran e Bastan - Necklace 3000 years old
Tehran - Museum - Iran e Bastan - Vessel
Tehran - Museum - Iran e Bastan - Persepolis Frieze
Tehran - Street money changer
Tehran - Traffic
Tehran - The Shah's Palace/Main Palace - Niyavaran Palace Museum
Tehran - Niyavaran Palace Museum - Sahebqaranieh - War Room
Tehran - Niyavaran Palace Museum - The Shah's Palace
Tehran - Niyavaran Palace Museum Complex
Tehran - Niyavaran Palace Museum - Ahmad Shahi Pavilion
Tehran - Niyavaran Palace Museum Complex - Tile Detail
Tehran - Niyavaran Palace Museum Complex - Ceiling Detail
Tehran - Bagh-e-Melli Gate
Tehran - Ceramic Museum
Tehran - Ceramic Museum - Uschi
Tehran - Outside the Ceramic Museum - Uschi and her mum
Tehran - Street Musician
Tehran - Open Power box (and sticky fingers)
Tehran - Street with watermelon seller
Tehran - Saad Abad Complex - White Palace
Tehran - White Palace - Green Marble Corridor
Tehran - White Palace - The Shah's Bedroom
Tehran - White Palace - Me
Tehran - White Palace - The Shah's Coach
Tehran - Saad Abad Complex - Green Palace
Tehran - Green Palace
Tehran - Near the Green Palace - Uschi in the park
Tehran - Chain Mail at the Military Museum
Tehran - Saad Abad Complex - Art Museum
Tehran - Uschi's Mum
Tehran - Mike Tyson (!)
Tehran - Uschi's Mum and Aunty Mitzi
Tehran - Carpet Museum
Tehran - Carpet Museum - Inside
Tehran - Laleh Park - Cloud Crow
Tehran - Laleh Park
Tehran - Near Laleh Park - What the traffic is really like
Tehran - Mosque near Taleghani Street
Tehran - Playing with the kittens
Tehran - How to load a motorbike
Tehran - Golestan Palace
Tehran - Golestan Palace - Ceiling Detail
Tehran - Cutlery Detail
Tehran - Kabooky Fried Chicken (!)
Tehran - Bread being baked near Tajrish (Vali-asr St?)
Tehran - Bus Depot Tajrish
Tehran - Above Tajrish Bazaar
Tehran - Jamshidieh Stone Garden - Uschi and I
Tehran - Jamshidieh Stone Garden - Uschi
Tehran - Jamshidieh Stone Garden - View of the foothills
View of Tehran from Jamshidieh Stone Garden
Tehran - Jamshidieh Stone Garden
Tehran - Northern Tehran - Memorial for a son
Tehran - Tajrish Bazaar - Unloading watermelons
Tehran - Garden View
Iran - On our way to Shiraz
Naqsh e Rostam
Persepolis - Gate of All Nations
Persepolis - Gate of All Nations - Uschi and me
Persepolis - Griffon Headed Finial
Persepolis - Apadana Eastern Stairs
Persepolis - Hundred Column Hall
Persepolis - Hundred Column Hall from the tomb of Artaxerxes III
Persepolis - Hundred Column Hall and Uschi
Persepolis - Hundred Column Hall with Uschi and me
Persepolis - Stairway to Xerxes Palace
Persepolis - Xerxes Palace
Persepolis - Apadana
Near Persepolis
Near Persepolis - Lunch
Shiraz - The qanat near the tomb of Sadi
Shiraz - The tomb of Sadi
Shiraz - The tomb of Sadi (detail)
Shiraz - Coffeehouse near The tomb of Sadi (detail)
Shiraz - Coffeehouse near The tomb of Sadi (fish pond)
Shiraz - The tomb of Hafiz (entrance)
Shiraz - The tomb of Hafiz
Shiraz - The tomb of Hafiz (ceiling detail)
Shiraz - The tomb of Hafiz (ceiling)
Shiraz - The Rose Mosque
Shiraz - The Rose Mosque (door detail)
Shiraz - The Rose Mosque (ivan detail)
Shiraz - The Rose Mosque (winter hall glass)
Shiraz - The Rose Mosque (winter hall glass detail)
Shiraz - The Rose Mosque (winter hall)
Shiraz - The Rose Mosque and me
Shiraz - The Rose Mosque, Uschi and me
Shiraz - Bazaar
Shiraz
Shiraz - Citadel (of Karim Khan)
Shiraz - Eram Garden
Iran - Sheep on the road (!)
Iran - Nomads Camp
Iran - On the road
Pasargadae
Pasargadae - Citadel in the distance
Pasargadae - Audience Hall
Pasargadae - Prison of Solomon
Pasargadae - Tomb of Cyrus
Abarqu - Icehouse
Abarqu - Icehouse (inside)
Abarqu - 4000 year old cedar
Abarqu - Jame Mosque
Landscape Near Yazd
Near Yazd - Eagle Mountain
Yazd - The hotel room
Yazd - The hotel garden
Yazd - The hotel badgir (wind tower)
Yazd - The hotel dining room
Near Yazd - Down a qanat
Near Yazd - Qanat mounds
Near Yazd - Farmhouse
Near Yazd - desert sand blown up the mountains
Chak Chak
The view from Chak Chak
Chak Chak - Uschi inside the Fire Temple
Chak Chak - The view from inside the Fire Temple
Chak Chak - Family we had tea with
Yazd - The hotel macaws
Yazd - Mosque - Masjed-i Jame
Yazd - Masjed-i Jame (detail)
Yazd - Masjed-i Jame (cupola ceiling detail)
Yazd - Mosque (Masjed-i Jame)
Yazd - Private house doorway - old town
Yazd - Old town
Yazd - Old town badgir (wind tower)
Yazd - Old town - 12 Imam tomb (there aren't any Imams here!)
Yazd - Water Museum - Water cooler vessel
Yazd - Water Museum - Qanat in the basement
Yazd - Tekyeh Amir Chakhmagh
Yazd - Tekyeh Amir Chakhmagh (detail)
Yazd - View from the Tekyeh Amir Chakhmagh
Yazd - Tower of Silence
Yazd - Hotel
Yazd - Zoroastrian Fire Temple (the fire)
Yazd - Zoroastrian Fire Temple
Iran - Desert Caravanserai
Iran - Desert Caravanserai and Uschi
Nain - Citadel
Nain - Jame Mosque
Nain - Jame Mosque - Uschi
Nain - Jame Mosque - Underground Chambers
Nain - Jame Mosque - Alabaster skylights for the underground chambers
Isfahan - The river from the Bridge of 33 Arches
Isfahan - Uschi on The Bridge of 33 Arches
Isfahan - Si-o-Seh Pol (The Bridge of 33 Arches)
Isfahan - Pol-e Khaju (Khaju Bridge)
Isfahan - Pol-e Khaju (underneath)
Isfahan - Pol-e Khaju (Me on a decorative lion)
Isfahan - Pol-e Khaju (Uschi by a decorative lion)
Isfahan - Pol-e Shahrestan (The Shahrestan Bridge) - 11th Century.
Isfahan - Icecream at night
Isfahan - The foyer to an unknown building
Isfahan - The foyer to an unknown building (ceiling detail)
Isfahan - Statue in the river park
Isfahan - Aseman Hotel (where we stayed)
Isfahan - View at night
Isfahan - Bazaar
Isfahan - Jame Mosque - 1000 year old column (inside)
Isfahan - Jame Mosque - Plaque from the Iran/Iraq war
Isfahan - Jame Mosque - Damage from the Iran/Iraq war
Isfahan - Jame Mosque - Dome detail
Isfahan - Jame Mosque - Courtyard detail
Isfahan - Jame Mosque - Ivan
Isfahan - Jame Mosque - ceiling detail
Isfahan - Jame Mosque - Underground, winter hall
Isfahan - Jame Mosque - preachers chair
Isfahan - Jame Mosque - Minaret
Isfahan - Jame Mosque - Hall
Isfahan - Jame Mosque - the way out
Isfahan - Bazaar - ceiling detail
Isfahan - Bazaar - Any colour you want (as long as it's black)
Isfahan - Bazaar - Any colour you want (this time)
Isfahan - Bazaar - Spice displayed for sale
Isfahan - Bazaar - Spice Merchant
Isfahan - Bazaar - Watermelon Merchant
Isfahan - Bazaar - Vegies
Isfahan - Bazaar - Shoppers and grains
Isfahan - Vank Cathedral
Isfahan - Bazaar - We had lunch in the butchers kitchen
Isfahan - Ali Qapu palace - Uschi and our guide
Isfahan - Ali Qapu palace - staircase detail
Isfahan - Naqsh-i Jahan Square (Sheikh Lotf Allah Mosque) viewed from Ali Qapu palace
Isfahan - Naqsh-i Jahan Square (Imam Mosque) viewed from Ali Qapu palace
Isfahan - Naqsh-i Jahan Square (Sheikh Lotf Allah Mosque)
Isfahan - Naqsh-i Jahan Square (Imam Mosque)
Isfahan - Ali Qapu palace - Column detail
Isfahan - Ali Qapu palace - Detail
Isfahan - Ali Qapu palace - Ceiling detail
Isfahan - Ali Qapu palace - Acoustic ceiling detail
Isfahan - Naqsh-i Jahan Square (Sheikh Lotf Allah Mosque), me and Uschi
Isfahan - Naqsh-i Jahan Square - Shops
Isfahan - Sheikh Lotf Allah Mosque - Entrance Hall
Isfahan - Sheikh Lotf Allah Mosque - Ceiling detail
Isfahan - Sheikh Lotf Allah Mosque - Ceiling and wall detail
Isfahan - Sheikh Lotf Allah Mosque - Window detail
Isfahan - Naqsh-i Jahan Square - The Fountain
Isfahan - Imam Mosque - Ivan and entry way
Isfahan - Imam Mosque - Ceiling detail
Isfahan - Imam Mosque - Wall detail in sunlight
Isfahan - Imam Mosque - Cupola at sunset
Isfahan - Imam Mosque - Tiling detail
Isfahan - Bazaar in the evening
Isfahan - Shah Abbas Hotel
Tehran - Poets Park - Vali-asr St
Tehran - Last meal before leaving
Tehran - Bye bye...
Resort Hotel near Chalis
Travelling through the Alborz - Panorama
