We walked to the nearest hotel, checked their prices and then got very lost finding our way to their nearest competitor to check theirs and then find our way back to the first hotel. After dumping our bags and having something to eat I was more in the mood for a bit of sightseeing but we decided to chill out use the free wifi, drink more tea flavoured with fresh crushed cardamom and eat some more. It was easily the nicest place we had stayed at during our trip, the staff were cool, the people staying there were almost all backpackers or mad cyclists and the atmosphere was really really easy going and relaxed, we actually bumped into a French couple who were on a driving tour, later in Mumbai.
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| From Yazd, Iran |
We spent the next day walking round the old part of the city which was built or covered almost exclusively with daub/wattle. The walls were all high and the lanes very slim so we got very lost very quickly, it was a cool shady place to get lost in, though, and we enjoyed our time in the alleyways of Yazd as much as wandering around Mosques and climbing up stairwells for a view out over the city. We had a buffet lunch in a converted hammam (public bathing house) before going back to the hotel mid afternoon when, shock horror, my camera ran out of battery.
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| From Yazd, Iran |
Over the next couple of days we walked a round a little more, going up the top of a huge monument to look out over the city and tried to go and see a Zoastrian Fire Temple which, a long walk out, was closed when we got there.
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| From Yazd, Iran |
We left mid evening on the 20th to get the train to Kerman and the sand castles.
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