Welcome to Iran
Wild
Mr., I'm from the TV
I'm a TV reporter
So this is it, we arrived in Iran
Today is the
Third day
Yeah, yesterday we didn't record at all
And the day before we arrived in the evening
In Astara, the border city
It was quite wild and overwhelmig
New things, different things
You have to get used to it
We made on mistake
In Astara
When we left the border
20, 30 people came to us
To change money
It was too much for us
So we just continued
And said we'll do it later
But in all the banks you can't change money
They all say we have to go back to Astara
Or in the other direction to Rasht
Which is also 100km
Luckily we have some food
Which we can eat
We got some fruits from the people
But no problem, we'll do it
You need a translation?
He is singing about Iran
You are my home, my proudness
About the persian gulf
What does it mean?
Iran is my home
We were two nights in Talesh
Stayed at a nice family
They invited us from the street
And convinced us more or less
That we have to come to their place or lunch
We accepted
It was so nice
They invited us to stay overnight
They said they like to invite tourists
They are english teachers
And so they can train their english
They told us about a guest from Australia
Who stayed one month at their place
Spontaneous
Crazy
The people are so hospitaly
We had two really nice days
We celebrated the first Birthday of the daughter
She had Birthday yesterday
Sweet and nice. We had good food
She cooked some nice vegan traditional dishes
Really nice
Good food, good time
Now we go to Anzali port
That's 70km
There we have another couchsurfing host
Let's see
Hi we make a small break
In a tea stall
Here are these small rooms
Which you get, with nice pillows
Then we have tea
With sugar
And sunflower seeds
Dates, this is sugar
With Safran
So it's yellow. Here some sweets
And small jelly
They like Jelly a lot i think
They have it everywhere
Nice
Our warmshowers host
Yesterday we had a good dinner and tea
A cool guy
A bicycle nerd i would say
He hosted hundreds of people here
Cyclists from all over the world
He is really up for that
For cycle-touring
Now we go into the forest
And to the caspian sea
Which is like 200m away from here
Then we'll see
Looking for a snake
It's stuck
We move on
We change the house
We go to some school
An english course or something
A short talk
Then we'll have good food
Our calendar in Iran is full
I think
To be in Dubai for new years eve
We have to take a train
Because we don't do more than 10km each day
We can't decline all the invitations
We are handed over to the next hosts
Good evening
We are alone again
We pitch the tent
At the caspian sea
We cycled a bit in Iran by now
It's now 300km to Teheran
Tomorrow we'll go into the mountains
Tomorrow we'll leave the caspian sea
tomorrow we'll leave the sea
so, just
5km ago
we turned into a small road
which leads away from the coast
into the mountains
it immediately got quiet
we noticed that
here is a huge forest
like a rain forest
but also
it's a good uphill
but i think it will be really beautiful
today is thursday
weekend in iran
thursdays is the only day
where the people have free
here in the mountains are everywhere restaurants
and the people are here
or in the forests too
everywhere are people
to make a picknick
and to wave to us and make pictures with us
just some minutes ago
4 guys stopped us
made photos
and gave us two big bags with fruits
awesome
but it's also exhausting
good uphill
it's already late
let's see where we will be in the evening
good evening
we got invited
from some iranians who lived in russia
and they speak russian
we are in their weekend house
and it's a jackpot
good morning
yesterday night
there through the mountains
on the big road we cycled
and on this mountain to here
I like russian girls a lot
back on the road
we move on to teheran
we had an amazing evening yesterday
really cool
now we move on
160km
to teheran, where we want to arrive in 4 days
through the mountains
probably up to 3000m in height
in teheran we are invited by the same family
they life in teheran and yesterday we where
in their weekend house
will be nice
also the way to teheran
will be really beautiful
we'll go through nice landscapes
olga holds the bicycles
so we can make a photo
this night, again in the tent
here is our campingspot
i'm building our house
good
nice views
the clouds are a bit too much
but now
we are much more in nature
than at the caspian sea
some houses are here, okay
but
much quieter
more nature here, or?
yeah. nice
we move on
uphill
i think 80km uphill
about 2800m in height
we are almost on 1000m now
around
3500m it will be
then it's downhill
to teheran
we'll see
the mountain stage
is quite exhausting
around 8km to go
then it's downhill and we can look for a campingspot
slowly the power is gone
just up, up, up
now we have 2km tunnel
looks dusty and dark
so we have this protection
this will be tough
but then it's downhill
then we look for a campingspot
our todays campingspot
pretty nice place i would say
on a small road now
we left the highway
on a small road and tomorrow
we'll have more uphill
but much less traffic
perfect, really nice
we are in a skiresort now
there are
the lifts
another one
and there
you can slightly see the serpentines
somehow, up and down
to there
there we have to go now
7km
800m in height
from down there we are coming
we made it up all the serpentines
and we arrived at the top
can't believe we made it
awesome
great
short break
drink a bit
then there we move on
there was a sign, teheran
can you see it?
over there
in the
smog, in the gray
you can see teheran
the skyscrapers
our view on teheran
good morning
good evening, we are
at the milad tower
still in teheran
the town's landmark
we go up now
we look around outside first
and we just found something cool
a piece of home
in iran, a holsten beer from hamburg
of course alcohol free
but nevertheless, really nice
we drink that, enjoy the view and then we go up
with probably a much greater view
we can't go up to the very top
it's closed, just until 8p.m.
now it's 9p.m.
we are a bit late
but now we are in the fourth floor i think
and here we also have a nice view over the city
looks nice
the lights and cars
our holidays in teheran are over
we had a nice time
with mohammed
with his girlfriend, it was nice
it was definetly nice
or, really nice because of the great people
with whom we did stuff together
so that was nice
but without the people, this city
has nothing in terms of sightseeing
we move on to the next city
now we go south
to isfahan
there it will be much nicer
but that takes some time
now we have to leave teheran
get our stuff downstairs and go out
we found a baby chicken on the road
he fell off a truck
he looks quite good
