Wednesday, 22 January 2014

These photos are at Bikaner where we were a couple of days ago visiting the Rat Temple








Jaislmer is known as the Golden City because all the buildings are the yellow color of the natural desert.  It is beautiful here....here as some shots of our walk yesterday through the city with our guide |Deepandrpro who Vene is in love with and going to marry (sometime)

the following pictures are just some of our walk through the center of Jaislmer...











Tuesday, 21 January 2014

 Above is Vene on the rooftop restaurant of the hotel with the Jailsimer fort in the background and below is Vene with our driver Rambeer trying to do a wind deal!!   You know Vene!!!

We are in Jailsmer today arrived last night...Jailsmer Fort is in the background of our hotel....it is known as the golden city as all the bricks from the desert are a yellow color..Below is the fort at night.. we are in the roof top restaurant after getting our aryevdic massage.. Vene, Dale and myself all went for a massage...
 Having dinner on the roof top restaurant...Food has been so yummy!!!
 Some pics of our hotel in Jailsimer




 Our driver Rambeer.....he is taking very good care of us.  It is very difficult for us to escape from him...



local town we stopped outside of Delhi

We stopped at a small town outside of Delhi because our driver's wife was with us and he dropped her off at this small town for her brother's wedding..




..This girl below is warming her hands with cow dung patties...which are being dried all along side of the roads

 They gave us a beautiful lunch..masala tea, sweets and paneer deep fried...
These two girls are doing their laundry..

Thursday, 16 January 2014

Here are some pictures of every day life in Iran......
Below is our guide Mary we had in Tehran with Gasttour.....she was sweet!
 Streets of Tehran

 Bazaar in Tehran...notice me with my head cover....ABSOLUYTELY   HAD TO BE WORN AT ALL TIMES IN PUBLIC


 Inside a mosque area...
 Museum bath house in Tehran

 A mosque that  we had to wear these sheets to get into...

our last couple of days in Dubai

Welcome back to being uncensored!!!   Welcome back to facebook...
I am going to try and post...this is some of our days in Iran....
This was our travel from Yazd to Isfahan....our driver had to stop and take a picture because he had never seen now like this in the desert...20 years since they had seen snow!!


It gets even better....went through a snow storm ...it was a bit nail biting.....

So enough of snow...will try to get some pictures of our days visiting Persepolis and Necropolis...times from Darius and Cirus (600 - 300 BC)




We went through so many beautiful mosques!!  I will try to show just some of them...
 Above is the mountains around persepolis which is just outside of Isfahan
 Above is a 4000 year , yes 4000 year old Cyprus tree!!
 This was the hotel in Isfahan