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17 days & nights
Tehran
Min Age : 15+
Max People : 15

Iran In 17 Days

We have organized a special tour including most of the Iranian UNESCO World Heritage Sites in 17 days. It’s a long journey of visiting a four-season country and you will see the marvelous sightseeing and breathtaking places during this journey.

Here it is a great chance to see Iranian hospitality with prepared-best services. We have planned everything in detail and there is no spare time to lose. Join us to experience what is best.

Visiting cities

We are going to visit Tehran, Garmsar, Mehdishahr, Damghan, Shahrood, Kalaleh, Khalid Nabi, Gonbad Kavus, Gorgan, Sari. We take the road beside the Caspian sea to visit Ramsar, Fuman, Rudkhan, Masuleh, Asalem, Khalkhal, Ardabil. The upcoming cities are the most precious ones which are Kandovan, Tabriz. Finally, we take you to IkA for departure.

Best Accommodation Places

On this tour, we have selected one of the best hotels and when there is no hotel available we have reserved the most famous eco-lodge in each area.

Distinct Catering

In our special “full board tour”, meals are not predefined, you can choose the best food in each restaurant, which are the bests in every region as well.

Our full board tour provides free meals of famous-traditional-best restaurants in all cities during our journey. When we are on a long-distance to reach another city, you can help yourself with local fruits and vegetables, juices, tea or coffee or in some cases with midday meals or snacks, which we will buy on the way from local places in each city. We are also going to visit special cafes for resting after a long walk or for enjoying the environment of traditional or modern cafes in some cities.

Travel Insurance

Foreign travelers need to be sure about the quality of insurance service, as insurance shouldn’t be just a formal procedure.

Piranoos distinct insurance service is a strong contract between Piranoos and the Iranian best insurance company to get the most satisfying services for travelers with Piranoos.

Furthermore, you as a Piranoos customer can get your arrival airport visa using Piranoos tour voucher + Piranoos insurance paper, without wasting time in the airport insurance queue and with no worry.

Piranoos insurance program is free of charge for Piranoos travelers.

Learn Farsi

On this tour, you will have some free times and we can use them to do something very special. We are going to teach you Farsi during our trip and it helps you to enjoy your communication with people. The courses are basic level and include normal daily conversations of local people. Through these practices, we can find our mutual words, idioms, traditions, hobbies, …  and learn Farsi by having fun.

There is this misunderstanding that Iranian are Arab and speak Arabic, which is not correct. Although we have a similar alphabet but the languages and races are different. Join us to learn and practice Farsi in the center of this language and later you can enjoy poems of Rumi, Hafez, Sa’adi, … by reading them in Farsi.

Dialogue of Cultures – Inside Persian Homes

We have special programs on some of the nights during our journey. We would try to set up a plan for you to see the hospitality of Dezfuli, Isfahani, Shirazi, Yazdi, Tehrani, Saravi, Gilaki, Tabrizi, Qazvini, and families.
In this case, you would be familiar with the features of Iranian night gatherings like foods, desserts, storytellings, seasonal fruits or dry fruits, distillates, customs, cultures, and traditional kinds of music.
Our dinner would be a homemade traditional food of that specific city and you can also join the preparation process of your dinner.
We are the first and only Iranian tour operator that applies “Dialogue of Cultures Programs” with a large quantity and a great quality and all free of charge.
We need to inform you that we have carefully selected the families to make sure you will have a perfect night with knowledgable experts. Your English leader and your English local guide would be there for you too. But, as a matter of facing unexpected problems, we will have dinner in one of the best restaurants in that city.
Tour Details

Let us show you different cities and UNESCO sites of Iran in 17 days.  You deserve to experience what’s best during this journey. As a result, we have selected the most famous and high-quality hotels and Eco-lodges for you.

You also need to taste different kinds of Iranian delicious foods. Hence, we are going to take you to one of the traditional or famous restaurants in each destination. In these best-quality restaurants, you can choose whatever you want on the menu.

We have included all of the meals and coffee shop expenses on the offered price, so you will have no worries and will enjoy the most. You can visit most of the must-see sightseeing with our expert tour guides and always ask to visit more. If we had enough time, we would take you to those attractions without any extra costs.

The east and west of Iran are less visited than center of Iran by tourists and with this tour you have this chance to visit new and unique places in each corner of Iran. Through your journey, the changes of climates, tribes, life styles, customs, foods and many other things will be obvious for you. If you think it’s not safe and maybe it’s dangerous to do this tour, just do it to feel closely the safety of Iran.

Departure & Return Location

Departure Time

3 Hours Before Flight Time

Price Includes

  • All Night Stay Accommodations
  • All Transportation During your Journey
  • English speaking Tour Guide and English speaking Local Guides
  • All Transportation During your Journey
  • All Meals During the Journey
  • Museums and All Attractions Entrance Fees
  • Arrival and Departure Airport Transfers from/to Imam Khomeini International Airport (IKA)
  • Coffee Shops, Snacks, Fruits, Midday Meals
  • Travel Insurance
  • SIM Card / Internet

Price Excludes

  • Your International Flights from and to your Home
  • Any Private Expenses
  • Tips

Complementaries

  • Sunscreen
  • Umbrella
  • Comfortable walking shoes and sandals
  • Camera
  • Cap or hat
  • Sunglasses
  • Warm clothes
What to Expect

It is our mission to show you the best of all cities in a friendly environment. You can feel free to ask to visit more base on our great friendship, full of honesty and kindness, and our limited time. That’s why we have listed other visitable places on each day so that you can ask to visit some of mentioned places* and your leader would make a decision base on your tour’s limited-time.
We do our best to make you feel at ease and enjoy catering services. Healthy and delicious foods will be served during your trip, especially on long time distances. The whole journey applies in the exact way we have described, so you can expect to experience and see all we have mentioned.
On this tour, we tried to reserve the most famous and precious luxury hotels, restaurants and coffee shops. Yet, if the group suggests a restaurant/hotel which is better than what we have offered, we try to change the plan to what exactly please you the most.
We apply the changes without any extra cost, because …
” Your Satisfaction has Priority to Our Own Profit”

*Note: The closure of a place is a problem that may happen in some cities unexpectedly for different reasons like unannounced repairing process. In this case or in the case of having extra time we may visit some of the mentioned items in each day.

Itinerary

Day 0 - (TEHRAN)Salaam Iran

We are going to greet you at IKA in Tehran and take you to the Espinas Hotel to rest and stay the night. You can get more sleep and get fully charged for upcoming visiting places in the morning. Depond on your arrival time we can prepare some visits in Tehran . Meals of today is also included.

Day 1 - (TEHRAN)The Heart of Traditional Business




GRAND BAZAAR – TEHRAN


We start our tour at 8:30 and we drive to the National Museum of Iran. The national museum of Iran is one of the wealthy treasure of historic and pre-historic Iranian artifacts which located in Tehran . Then we walk to Golestan Palace to visit the only UNESCO World Heritage Sites of Tehran. It’s an Iranian garden full of palaces and we will visit the main palace as the biggest one, where the king used to meet his guests, then one of the other palaces would be enough to visit. Afterward, we visit Tehran Grand Bazaar close to the Golestan complex and have lunch at Moslem restaurant. Later on the day we go to walk and chill out for a while in Abo Atash park and see the beauty of Tabiat bridge.The artchirecrue of this e floors bridge was a lady with name of Leila Araghian. We will have dinner in Rahe Chubi restaurant. You will be amazed by its great environment.
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In the case of an unexpected closure of a place or have more time we can visit:
Reza Abbasi Museum
Abgineh (Glassware & Ceramic) Museum – Tehran
Holy Defence Museum
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Breakfast: Espinas Palace Hotel
Lunch: Moslem restaurant or one of the best restaurants in Tehran
Midday Catering: carrot juice or mellon juice
Dinner: Rahe Chubi restaurant or one of the best restaurants in Tehran
Overnight: Espinas Palace Hotel or Azadi Hotel, one of the 2 best hotels in Tehran




GOLESTAN PALACE – TEHRAN


Day 2 - (TEHRAN)A journey To Pahlavi Era




SA’D ABAD PALACE – TEHRAN


Today we start our plan at 09:00 am and we go to visit Sa’dabad Palace, in the north of Tehran where you will be informed about the Pahlavi era. The Green Palace and White Palace are the two main palaces that we should visit and if we had more time we can visit other palaces as well. The complex is very big and we spend at least 2 hours there. After lunch, we visit the Iranian Art Museum Garden and then walk to Tajrish Bazaar to see the old bazaar with a variety of shops in the north of Tehran. In the end, we have dinner at Tehrani house and rest at the hotel.
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In the case of unexpected closure of a place or have more time we can visit some of the following places:
Niavaran Complex
Zaman Museum (Time Museum)
Mellat Park
Carpet Museum
Imamzadeh Saleh Shrine
Darband
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Breakfast: Espinas Palace Hotel or Azadi Hotel
Lunch: Chargah Restaurant or one of the best restaurants in Tehran
Midday catering at: Coffee or tea with cookies/milkshake
Dinner: Tehrani house, or one of the best restaurants in Tehran
Overnight: Espinas Palace Hotel or Azadi Hotel, one of the 2 best hotels in Tehran




TAJRISH BAZAAR – TEHRAN


Day 3 - (MEHDISHAHR)In Chase Of Dr. Alfons Tracking




QASR-E BAHRAM – SEMNAN


We have breakfast and leave Tehran at 08:00 am to visit the Salt Mines of Garmsar. Chasing Dr. Alfons Gabriel, after lunch, we head to visit the paved road from the Safavi era, Qasr-e Bahram Caravanserai, and Eynolrashid Caravanserai. To visit them all, we have to get off the road and go through the desert to reach them, so we should check the weather the day before. If we were lucky, we might see a desert deer in this area. Later, we drive to Mehdi-Shahr. We will have dinner and spend the night at Sangsar Hotel.
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In the case of unexpected closure of a place or have more time we can visit some of the following places:
Qale Bala in Semnan
Water Reservoir in Garmsar
Stonavand Castle
Deir-e Gachin Caravansarai
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Breakfast: Espinas Palace Hotel or Azadi Hotel
Lunch and midday catering: Arkadash Traditional Restaurant, or one of the best restaurants in Garmsar
Dinner and overnight: Sangsar Hotel, the best hotel in Mehdi-Shahr




SALT MINE – GARMSAR


Day 4 - (SHAHROOD)Stairs of Nature




BADAB-E SURT – MAZANDARAN


We will have breakfast and then visit the second limestone cave in Iran named Darband Cave and then we move on to visit Badab-e Soort. We will visit the beautiful and strange stairs of nature. Then, after drinking tea and some snacks, we go to have lunch in the city of Damghan and visit Jameh mosque of Damghan. We continue our way to Shahrood to do check-in and sleep there.
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In the case of unexpected closure of a place or have more time we can visit some of the following places:
Pire Alamdar
Parvar Protected Area
Imamzadeh Tajoddin
Opert
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Breakfast: Sangsar Hotel
Lunch: Qajarieh restaurant or one of the best restaurants in Damghan
midday catering: tea with cookies (Sohan of Qom) or some local fruits
Dinner and overnight: Paramida Hotel, the best hotel in Shahrood



JAMEH MOSQUE – DAMGHAN


Day 5 - (KHALID NABI)A Different Cemetery




KHALID NABI – GOLESTAN PROVINCE


Today we start at 7:00 am and head to the north. On the way, we go to the special jungle with name of Abr forest. In Farsi Abr means cloud and in case of cloudy weather, we have this chance to see the ocean of clouds at this jungle, especially in spring. We will do hiking to have a good view of clouds from the top of the hills. After snack time we back to the car and drive to the Kalaleh for lunch. Then we experience a different accommodation which is close to the Khalid-Nabi cemetery. We have a green landscape view around us and we can explore it in the afternoon and have dinner in eco-lodge. For tonight, you can enjoy Turkman traditional music.
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In the case of unexpected closure of a place or have more time we can visit some of the following places:
Jameh Mosque of Bastam
Khali Nabi Tomb
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Breakfast: Paramida Hotel
Lunch: one of the best restaurants in Kalaleh
Midday catering: tea with cookies (Sohan of Qom) or some local fruits
Dinner and overnight: Hezar Dare Khalid Nabi eco-lodge (at this eco-lodge we’ll experience a group accommodation on the floor in Turkman style tents and we need to share toilet and bath with the others)




ABR FOREST – SHAHROOD


Day 6 - (GORGAN)Tallest Brick Tower




VOSHMGIR TOWER – GONBAD-E QĀBUS (KAVOUS)


After breakfast in our Turkman eco-lodge, we move to Gonbad-e Qabus city. After about 2 hours, we can visit Voshmgir Tower (Mil-e-Gonbad) which is a UNESCO World Heritage Sites. It is the world’s tallest brick tower and you can see it from a far distance. This city is popular with horses and you can try riding the Turkman horse there. In case of any horsemanship, we go for watching. Then we leave the city to stay at night in Gorgan.
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In the case of having more time or unexpected closure of a place we can visit:
Bandar Torkaman
Golestan Dam
Horse Riding
Carpet Museum
Russians Bazaar
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Breakfast: Hezar Dare Khalid Nabi eco-lodge
Lunch: Gandom Restaurant or one of the best restaurants in Gonbad-e Qabus city
Midday Catering: special Halva or bread with taste of ginger + tea or coffee
Dinner and overnight: Jahangardi hotel or Botanic Palace Hotel, the best two hotels in Gorgan

Day 7 - (SARI)Flying




PARAGLIDING – BEHSHAHR


We continue our overland journey to Sari. Depending on the weather, we would have two different plans. The first plan is to visit 2 or 3 sites in Gorgan. We want to visit Gorgan Craft Museum, which is actually an old house that becomes a museum. Afterward, we visit Gorgan Palace Museum and Jameh mosque in Gorgan’s bazaar. The other plan is to visit Behshahr-Mehdi Rajeh, where you can see Gorgan gulf from there and experience paragliding upon Gorgan Gulf . Finally, we go to the Salar Dareh Hotel in Sari, to have dinner and stay overnight.
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In the case of having more time or unexpected closure of a place we will visit:
Taqavi House
Naharkhoran Park
Gorgan Tower
Abbas Abad Garden
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Breakfast: Jahangardi hotel or Botanic Palace Hotel
Lunch: Meykhosh Restaurant or one of the best restaurants in Gorgan
Midday Catering: Baqeri’s House
Dinner: Saravi house or one of the best restaurants in the Sari
Overnight: Salar Dareh Hotel, the best hotel in Sari
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Note:
In the case of proper weather, you need to pay 50 euro per person for paragliding.

Day 8 - (RAMSAR)Heart Of The Forest




CABLE CAR – RAMSAR


In the morning at 8:00 am we will visit Kolbadi house in Sari and then continue our overland journey to Ramsar. We will have lunch at Angels Old Hotel restaurant and visit palace. It’s not a very old palace but you must visit it. The garden is very nice and at the end of the garden, there is a spring that supplies the water and there is a bamboo garden that is interesting. We should take the Ramsar cable car to reach the hotel on top of the mountain and check-in in heart of the forest. There is a nice view of the Caspian Sea and forest from the hotel.
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If we had enough time to visit we can:
Ramsar Telecabin Complex
Caspian museum
Hammam
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Breakfast: Salar Dareh Hotel
Lunch: Angels Old Hotel Restaurant or one of the best restaurants in Ramsar
Midday Catering: fruit/cookie with tea
Dinner & overnight: Bame Sabz Hotel, the best hotel in Ramsar

Day 9 - (RAMSAR)Free day

Today you have a free day in Ramsar, and you can rest at the hotel or visit around.
Overnight: Bame Sabz Hotel, the best hotel in Ramsar




RAMSAR


Day 10 - (FUMAN)Iranian Great Wall




RUDKHAN CASTLE – FUMAN


Our plan is to go to a very nice place with enjoyable hiking, so we take the road and after 2 hours we arrive at Fuman and we leave our luggage at the hotel, then we are going to visit Rudkhan castle. An amazing castle in the jungle and mountain that takes at least 45 minutes hiking (not very easy) from the parking to the castle. The view of the jungle and castle from the royal room is perfect. We have lunch with local food and then we go to another popular and amazing village known as Masuleh to walk in the village and having dinner. This village is a stair-like village and the roof of each house is the yard of the upper house. After having dinner at Masuleh we back to the hotel to check-in and sleep.
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If we had enough time to visit we can:
Fuman break bridge
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Breakfast: Bame Sabz Hotel
Lunch: The best restaurant at Rudkhan village
Midday Catering: Fuman’s cookie (Kolouche of Fuman) with tea
Dinner: Bamdad restaurant or one of the best restaurants at Masuleh
Overnight: Moein hotel, the best hotel in Fuman




MASOOLEH – FUMAN


Day 11 - (ASALEM)Water Fall




VISADAR WATERFALL – PARESAR


we will go to another part of Gilan province with name of Asalem. It takes less than 2 hours but before arriving there, we have to visit Espi Mazget mosque. This is a very old mosque which used to be a fire temple before Islam. Then we go to see a nice waterfall known as Visadar to seat close to it and drink a cup of tea with snaks and chillout. The road to this waterfall is nice as well. Gisoom is the name of a green area that many years ago has been made by government. There are many tall cedars and cypresses that by passing them we can reach the Caspian Sea and Gisoom beach. We will seat and chill out there and afterward go to the hotel.
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If we had enough time to visit we can:
Masal
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Breakfast: Moein hotel
Lunch: Hod Hod restaurant or, one of the best restaurants at Talesh
Midday Catering: special bread of Asalem (Nan Halva)
Dinner: Gilaki house or, one of the bestrestaurants in Asalem
Overnight: Hod Hod hotel, the best hotel in Asalem




GISOOMFOREST – GILAN


Day 12 - (MESHKIN SHAHR)Sufi Shrine




TOMB OF SHEIKH SAFI – ARDABIL


Today at 8:00 am we go toArdebil to visit a special place wich has beautiful architecture with name of tomb of Sheikh Safi. The name of Safavid dynasty is coming from his name but he had nothing to do with this kingdom. Sheikh Safi was a very knowledgeable, respected and well-known man at his time and he has spent most of his life in Gnosticism. The tomb is also belonging to some of the other Safavids Kings. The tile work and painted interiors are magnificent as well as the use of metal for doors and around the tombs. Ardebil used to be the first capital of the Safavi era and that’s why the architecture of this place is very similar to palaces in Isfahan. To reach Ardebil we take a very beautiful road from Asalem to Khalkhal which goes among the mountain. After having lunch in Ardebil, we head to Meshkin-Shahr to do check-in at Dorna eco-lodge and have dinner there.
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If we had enough time to visit we can:
Meshgin Shahr Suspended Bridge
Sareyn
Qaynarja Geothermal Water Complex
Bridge
Yeddi Goz Bridge
Jame mosque of Ardabil
Maryam church
Haji Fekr mosque
Shourabil Lake
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Breakfast: Hod Hod hotel
Lunch: Dizisara Sheikhsafi, the best restaurant at Ardebil
Midday Catering: Black Halva/special soup (Ash Dough)
Dinner & overnight:Dorna eco-lodge, the best eco-lodge in Meshkin-Shahr




ASALEM TO KHALKHAL ROAD


Day 13 - (KANDOVAN)Volcanic Structure And Hand-Carved Village




KANDOVAN – EAST AZERBAIJAN PROVINCE


After having breakfast at Dorna eco-lodge we will drive for 3 hours to Kandovan. A special village in south of Tabriz and it is One of the few manmade cliff dwellings in the world where people still live the traditional life. The houses are in different way of structure and our plan is to spend our night in the rock village Kandovan, in Kandovan Laleh International Rocky hotel. We will walk around to see the village and the people. The view of the village during the night and day is different and very nice. Beyond Kandovan, smooth steep foothills mask a full view of Sahand mountain whose hidden volcanic summit rises to 3707m.
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If we had enough time to visit we can:
Bazaar of Kandovan
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Breakfast: Dorna eco-lodge
Midday Catering: cookie + tea or coffee/dried fruits like apricot and plum
Lunch: Kandovan Laleh International Rocky hotel or one of the best restaurants in Kandovan
Dinner overnight: Kandovan Laleh International Rocky hotel, the best hotel in Kandovan




KANDOVAN – EAST AZERBAIJAN PROVINCE


Day 14 - (TABRIZ)largest Covered Bazaar




BAZAAR -TABRIZ


Today we leave Kandovan behind and go to Tabriz, the biggest and most crowded city in the northwest of Iran, where another Iranian tribe is living there. We go directly to Jameh mosque of Tabriz. It is located in Grand Bazaar of Tabriz and has built in several stages. The Mihrab of mosque has a Kufi inscription decorated with stucco-work. Then we will visit one of the oldest and largest covered bazaar in the middle east named Grand Bazaar of Tabriz. It is a UNESCO World Heritage Sites and it was one of the most important commercial centers on the Silk Road. We have lunch at Haj Ali restaurant to taste the Tabrizi kebab. Then we go to explore the city more in the afternoon by visiting the Kabood mosque which also named Goy mosque and blue mosque. Then we walk to Azerbaijan Museum, and Behnam House. Our day will finish by having dinner at El-goli complex.
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If we had enough time to visit we can:
Sa’at Square
University of Tabriz
Constitution House of Tabriz (Khane Mashrooteh)
Iron Age Museum
Poets Tomb (Maqbaratol Shoara)
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Breakfast: Kandovan Laleh International Rocky hotel
Lunch: Haj Ali restaurant, or one of the best restaurants in the bazaar of Tabriz
Midday Catering: Baklava of Tabriz + tea or coffee
Dinner: Elgoli complex, or one of the best restaurants in the bazaar of Tabriz
Overnight: Elgoli Pars Hotel, the best hotel in Tabriz




BLUE MOSQUE -TABRIZ


Day 15 - (TABRIZ)Saint Stepanos




SAINT STEPANOS MONASTERY – JOLFA


Another day and another UNESCO World Heritage Sites. We go to the city of Jolfa, where many years ago Armenian people used to leave there and a very important church with the name of Monastery of Saint Stepanos is there and we are going to visit the church and the old rooms of priests. While we drive to Jolfa, at some parts of the road you can see Nakhchivan on the other side of our water border. We will have easy hiking to the church. It takes our whole day so in the evening we back to Tabriz.
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If we had enough time to visit we can:
Khajeh Nazar Caravansaray
Kordasht Bath
Namaz Khaneh Choopan
Bazaar of Jolfa
Heidarzade House
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Breakfast: Elgoli Pars Hotel
Lunch: Haj Ali Khorram restaurant or one of the best restaurants in Jolfa
Midday Catering: sweets of Tabriz (Noqa, Loz or Qarabiyeh) + tea or coffee
Dinner: Tabrizi house or, or one of the best restaurants in the bazaar of Tabriz
Overnight: Elgoli Pars Hotel, the best hotel in Tabriz




SAINT STEPANOS MONASTERY _ JOLFA


Day 16 - (IKA)See You Later Iran

For your departure to fly back with comfort, we will take you to Tehran and then to IKA by the best available transformation. We hope you enjoy one of the best journey of your life.




IKA – TEHRAN


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