Iran Persia Tours

Flight to Tehran, arrive and check in, transfer to your hotel for an overnight stay.

Day 2: Full day city tour of Iran’s busy capital including: Visiting Iran Bastan museum (Archeological museum): Object from prehistoric period to Sassanian VIIIth C. the potteries, cylinders, bone or stone made objects. Carpet museum: built in 1978, this museum gathered the carpets from Golestan & Saad’abad palaces presenting both city and nomadic carpets from XVI th to XX th century. Crown Jewelry museum: a vast collection of jewelry with inestimable value. Ceramic museum: once occupied by Qajar dynasty, Sa’d Abâd was once again rebuilt and put to use by Pahlavi during the period of 1920 to 1976. Visiting Green palace (Kakh-e Sabz), and white palace (Kakh-e Mêlât).

Day 3: Full day Excursion to and depart at 06:00 to Pollour village (60 km, 2 hour driving), then to dam of Latyan. Then to head for Gousfandsara(walking program on the foot of the Damavand mountain. picnic lunch is provided. We will continue our road to Reyneh village and it’s thermal springs. Visiting of village. Return to Tehran around 20:00. Accommodation: 4 star at Enghelab Hotel

Departure to Qazvine, A capital of Persia from 1524-76. We visit greatest attraction including an excursion to the fabled ruin of Alamut Castle, Hassan-e Sabbah’s famous fortress site. The site is a dramatic crag rising abruptly above the pleasant, unpretentious little cherry-growing village of Gazor Khan. Return to Qazvine for visiting: Jameh Mosque, built in 1115, but extensively remodeled in the early 17th century, and has huge iwans and a fine marble mihrab. Accommodation: 4 star at Iranian hotel

Departure to Takab, on the way we will be visiting: Soltanyeh dome, built by the Ilkhanid Mongols as their Persian capital on 1302. After, drive to Zanjan to visit: Rakhtshor-khaneh: built in 1926, dome-and-column subterranean hall whose water channels were originally constructed as a public laundry-place. Next, head to to Takab city. Accommodation: 2 star at Ranji Hotel of Takab

Full day visit to Takht-e Soleyman: the ancient site is sitting in a high, lonely mountains ringed by 1500-year-old fortress walls, this Unesco World Heritage site in one of the most memorable sights in western Iran.
In the 3rd century AD the state religion of Sassanian Persia was Zoroastrianism and Takht-Soleyman (then called Azargoshasb) was its spiritual centre. Accommodation: 2 star at Ranji hotel

Depart to Kermanshah, en-route we will be visiting: Bisotoun: A cliff site that is inscribed with a series of world-famous bas-relief carving dating from 521 BC. They were awarded UNESCO recognition in 2006. The key feature is a well-preserved Darius the great receiving chained supplicants while a Farvahar (winged Zoroastrian angel denoting purity). Arrival in Kermanshah and visit Taq-e Bostan, author towering cliff with some extraordinary Sassanian bas-reliefs. They are set in and around a pair of carved alcoves:

• Coronation of Khosrow II (AD 590-628)
• Kings Shapour II and Shapour III twiddling their sword handles on their heads
• King Ardashir II (r AD 379-383) trampling on the defeated Roman Emperor Julian the Apostate

Accommodation: 4 star at Jamshid hotel

We will be visiting: Susa, one of the important Elamite city dating back to middle of the 3rd millennium BC, Susa was burnt around 640 BC by the Assyrian king Ashurbanipal, but regained prominence in 521 BC when Darius I set it up as the Achaemenid’ fortified winter capital.

• Palace of Darius the Great: That is now just a muddy rise on which a 30cm-high labyrinth of brick-and-wattle wall fragments marks the former room layout

• Tomb of Daniel: As in a typical imamzadeh, Muslim pilgrims crowed the glittery interior of the tomb of Daniel, kissing the zarih grate around a green-draped grave slab.

• Choqa Zanbil Ziggurat: One of Iran’s UNESCO World Heritage sites, Choqa Zanbil’s magnificent brick Ziggurat is the best surviving example of Elamite architecture anywhere.

Accommodation: 5 star at Pars hotel

Drive to Shiraz via Bishabour: the historic sassanid site was the grand capital of possibly the greatest of the Sassanian kings, Shapour I. Shapour and his armies defeated the Romans three times, and much of Bishabour was built by Romans taken captive after their Emperor Valerian was defeated in AD 260, you will be visiting, Palace of Shapour, Anahita’s Temple and the six large bas-reliefs commemorating, among other historical moments, Shapour’s investiture as king and his victory over Roman invaders. Arrive in Shiraz: Accommodation: 4 star at Royal Hotel

Excursion to Persepolis, capital of Achemenains (518 B.C.), the site representing ruins of the ancient capital of the dynasty which was considered as the capital of Persian empire for 2 consecutive centuries. Visiting the entrance staircase of Persepolis; through the Gate of Nations, we have access to the palaces of Darius the Great, Xerxes and Artaxerxes, palace of hundred columns and Apadana.

300 meters of staircases with the walk decorated by bas-reliefs representing submitted countries peoples. About 4 Km from Persepolis, you will be visiting another important achemenians and Sassanian site. In the mountain need, Kuh e- Hossein that Darius the first and three of his successors have chosen to be buried here. Visiting Naqsh –e Rostam: visiting the tombs of four of the achemenian kings: Darius the 1st, Artaxerxes the 1st, Xerxès the 1st., and Darius the 2nd.

In the afternoon, drive back to Shiraz to visit: Hafez and Saadi mausoleums, 2 Persian poets with special respect among the Iranian. Accommodation: 4 star at Royal Hotel

Exploring the poetic capital of Iran, Shiraz is known as a city of nightingales and a Persian motherland, we will be visiting: Bagh-e –Narendjestan (Narendjestân garden), this site is considered as one of the most beautiful houses in Shiraz dating back to late 18th century. Next, visit nearby Nasir-ol Molk Mosque: with 2 iwans, prayers halls with numerous columns and lighted by colored glasses, built in Qâdjâr period. Our Shiraz tour following by visiting, Regent mosque, the vakil complex including bazaar and a very beautiful mosque, finally end our day by visiting Arg-e kARIM khan, the citadel. Accommodation: 4 star at Royal Hotel

travel to Kerman via Neyriz, we will stop to visit: Sarvestan Palace, a Sassanian palace, built in 4th century as well as Jameh Mosque of Neyriz city. Latter arrive and check in. Accommodation: 5 star at pars Hotel

Full day excursion for visiting, Mahan city, a visit to one of the splendid dome over the mausoleum of the Shah Nematollah Vali, the mausoleum of a well-known Sufi dervish, one of the most well-known in eastern Iran. Next, Rayen: the demise of Bam has been the rebirth of the Arg-e Rayen, an ancient adobe citadel in Rayen city on the edge of the lut
Desert. Later, drive back to Kerman to visit: Gonbad-e Jabalye, it’s mysterious, because its age and original function remain unknown! It may have been an observatory, or it was a tomb. Accommodation: 5 star at pars Hotel

In the morning we visit kerman on a city tour, the highlights include:

Jameh Mosque, its four lofty iwans and shimmering blue tiles date from 1349. The impressive Imam Mosque, dating from the early Islamic period, the mosque has suffered considerable damage over the years and next, you will be visiting, Hamam-e Ganj Ali Khan: built in the Safavid period which now restored and transformed into a museum. Last, we end Our Kerman tour with a walking through the Grand Bazaar.

Drive to Zeinoddine Caravanserai for an overnight stay at the middle of desert.

Departure to Yazd, arrive and ready for a full day city tour, we will be visiting: Friday Mosque : the city’s most important Islamic landmark, and one of the most beautiful mosques of Iran. Alexander prison and the adjoining 12 Imam Mausoleum. Next, enjoy walking through the traditional Bazar of Yazd, visit Fire temple (Atashkadeh): built on 1934, its architecture is a combination of Iranian and European style. The interior part of the Temple withholds a sacred Fire (can be viewed from the other side of a protective glass), which is now lit for 1500 years in a row.

Next, visit the Towers of Silence: circular structures were used for Zoroastrian’s funeral. The corpses was always considered unholy, therefore burring them caused the soil and all the living creatures to be tainted. So they used to leave the corpses up on the heights for the carnivore birds to rip the flesh from their body… afterwards they buried the bones underground. Accommodation: 4 star at Daad hotel

Travel to Esfahan, en-route we will have a stop to visit Naiin city including: The ancient town that has long been famous for its carpets and 10th century Jameh Mosque. This mosque has no iwan and is especially notable for its fine mihrab and innovative yet simple use of stucco decoration, which is remarkably well preserved, later arrive at Esfahan. Accommodation: 4 star at Piroozi Hotel

Pearl of Iran with its torquiest domes with enamel covered septum’s: Esfahan, by the legends, is said to be designed from an image of Paradise. Exploring the city: Royal Ground, surrounded by Imam Mosque with aquatics minarets and Ali Qâpu palace with its 6 remarkable floors, Sheikh Lotfollah mosque. Next, head to old town and visit Friday Mosque: contains the most ancient relic of the city. It is one of the most significant mosques of both Iran and Islamic world. Next, visit Haroun-e Velayat Mausoleum: built with facade decorated by the magnificent enameled mosaic. End your day by an interesting visit to Zourkhaneh, the home for Iranians traditional sport.Accommodation: 4 star at Piroozi Hotel

Departure to Tehran via Abyaneh village. Lunch in Kashan following by visit to old town include: Ebrahim mausoleum: founded by the Safavians, and decorated by the Qajars, Sialk prehistoric hills: oasis of Kashan was residential by the end of the 6th millennium. Then, we visit Fin garden before heading to Qom to pay a visit to Mausoleum of Fatima masoumeh. Accommodation: 4 star at Novotel hotel of Tehran