3 days g-mail did not work in our
hotel.
My dear family and friends
we are in Iran, our group
got Iranian visa in Baku, in Iranian Embassy,
including me inspite of one Israeli stamp, but
they do it in the last moment and everybody is nervous, we flu Erbil-Istanbul-Tehran, our local tour guide met us
,
we had a dinner in a local restaurant, met a
travel agency owner with her husband-film maker who followed us and take
interview asking our opinions about the country and
people,
my father was in Tehran during the Second
World war with the Soviet Army because it was a conference of Stalin, Roosevelt and Churchill how to end this war,
it is a
city of 14 million people, very nosy, crowdy, no architectural beauty, a lot of
traffic, loud motorcycles, on the streets all women with covered head including me, half in long
black robes, half in western
cloth, people are very friendly ,come and want to take photos with us
saying-- we love America, do you like here? we have tours
of Golestan Palace, former residential palace of kings
and shahs,with lot of mirrors, famous
Solomon Throne -- in ancient time they
called Solomon out of respect for his famous wisdom and for
protection,
we went to world famous Jewels Museum
which housed underneath the Bank-- the biggest tourist attraction, collection which dates back few centuries ago, there is Globe of
Jewels made in 1869 out of 51 000of
precious stones.
every there are portraits
of Ayatollah Khomeini--died in 1989 and Ayatollah Ali
Khamenei.
we are leaving for Shiraz
,
love to all, Inna
