Off The Beaten Path: Persepolis Ancient city, Iran

Persepolis is a wonder in the middle of the Valley 40 km from Shiraz. To get here could be not that simple unless you’re willing to pay a lot with this private taxi that will take you at least 4000% plus the original price of the whole trip.

Persepolis is a palace and tombs complex from the 5century BC and was house of Emperor’s like Darius I and
Xerxes. In this complex you still can see historical engravings and ancent writings with the big things made by the ancient empire.

Darius I had his reception hall in the Palace of 100 Columns and consist in the biggest palace of whole Achaemenian period and has the largest hall of the ancient city of Persepolis it self.

How to get there
Get a bus from Shiraz direction Marv Dersh and from here take a taxi (6km) to the Persepolis complex.

Bus 2500Rials
taxi 3000Rials (they will ask you for 10000/20000, but you have to know how to deal this. Locals pay 1500/2000 so 3000 will be a good deal for them.

Esfahan Imam Square: Maidan-e-Naghsh-e-Jahan Square, Iran

The official name of the Imam Square is “Maidan-e-Naghsh-e-Jahan” which means Square of the World Portraits. In 1598, Shah Abbas I changed the capital to Isfahan and with large-scale city plans, began the construction of a new urban city.
This huge square is 512 m from north to south and 159 m from West to East. This makes the perfect relaxing plans if you’re up to relax times of course. The sun set get to be amazing to enjoy in this square and the sun goes down in the nearby Zagros Mountains.

All the tiles on the nearby mosques and madrassas get a special colour during sun set when also the square light are turn on. You can enjoy this moment gong to one of the few tea houses terraces that exist on the square. These tea houses are also Xixa houses where you can smoke flavoured tobacco.

View of the river in Esfahan by night, Iran

The night view from the Sio-Seh Pole bridge is indeed something you have to experience. During the night this usually gets a off tourist zone and get full with young people that use the place to interact with each other, lovers come to visit away from public eyes etc…

As you can see on the photo lots of action is going on, people walk along the river bank, some tea and xixa houses are also located in the bottom part of the bridge.

Sio-Seh Pole Bridge by night, Esfahan Iran

Sio-Seh Pole means thirty three arches, and was also called Allahverdikhan Pol, after the architect who built it in 1600. The bridge is about 300 meters in length and makes the perfect attraction for Irani local young people that choose this place to walk and look at each other. This is the lovers point where girls come very well dressed to look at boys and boys come also well dressed to look at girls.

Red Square: St. Basil the Blessed, Moscow

St. Basil the Blessed was ordered to be built in 1552 by Czar Ivan IV in glory of the fight against the Tatars.
Before i ever came to Moscow this was maybe the first imagine I had of the city, Red Square and this church.

The Kremlin: Kremlin in Moscow

The Kremlin and its surrounds were settled back in the XI century. Its amazing walls and inside buildings are enourmous and with its opponence mark your mind for a long time after you actually visited the city.
Right aside the Kremlin walls you have the well known Red Square and the also famous Pokrovsky Cathedral.

Website: http://www.kreml.ru/

Red Square: Red Square Moscow

Red Square view with a part of the kremlin walls and with the Pokrovsky Cathedral. Red Square or Krasnaya Pl. as it is called now.

Red Square’s history goes back before the Communist Soviet Union as we usually see it, with Lenins mausoleum and Comunist activities and goes back back back to the days of Czarist Russia. In the XV Century people came to this square before called just marketsquare to purchase food and other kind of essencial goods. Trinity Square was the name the square got in the XVI century and served as the main entry way to the Kremlin. It 1650 the square received the name Krasnaya Ploschad.

Red Square: Lenin Mausoleum. Moscow

Lenin Mausoleum on the Red Square. The original wooden mausoleum was replaced in 1929 with the granite and black labradorite stone that we all and thousands of people see today and make photos of.
Lenin died in 1924 and its embalmed body is inside for public eyes…

St. Basil the Blessed in Red Square, Moscow, Russia

St. Basil the Blessed was ordered to be built in 1552 by Czar Ivan IV in glory of the fight against the Tatars.
Before i ever came to Moscow this was maybe the first imagine I had of the city, Red Square and this church.

Novgorod´s Kremlin

This Unesco city is a place to visit. Lots of monuments and its relaxed atmosphere is indeed amazing to experience.
Novgorod´s Kremlim

Novgoro´s Kremlin backs back from the middle of the XI century and is one of the most beautiful of kremlis inside Russia and best well preserved. By the middle ages old wooden ramparts would discend from the old fortification facilities. Stone buildings came on the early XIV century