Trip to Yazd

We planned to take a buss from Kerman to Yazd. We met one local tour guide who offered off-road trip for 55 eur. We decided to take it.  Rocky village of Meymand and SarYazd where worth of it.

Meymand village in rocks was really impressing. Many nomad families are still living there part of the year, but at that moment they were out in desert areas where they are growing animals. There is also farming area where they grow crops and have orchards, where they spend 1/3 of the year as well. We saw mostly local tourists (several of them having famous local picnic).  It was very difficult to imagine someone is still living there (only toilet we saw there was a public and built for tourists). Inside of the caves houses were what you could expect, quite dark and cool with mostly one or two rooms, at the moment they were totally empty, only some trash lying around. But still definitely worth of visit when you are around.

We got lost in old mud brick castle SarYazd. It is only partly renovated and could be dangerous. So, be careful. It was nice example how people lived many centuries ago and stored their valuables and crops. As it was quite like a labyrinth it was perfect place to live through a siege or attack even when enemies got inside.

In Yazd it took hours to walk in old mud brick city (in fact the main attraction), but it is lovely. On our way we saw several coffees, some house museums. There are many wind towers around, some of them pretty high, these were used old days for cooling and preserving food in the room under them. It took effort to find Zorastian museum and it was not worth of it, took time to find someone to open the doors and there wasn´t that much to see. Bazaar was also not what we expected. If you arrive at noon, half a day is enough to spend in it. Jameh mosque is worth to visit when you are around. It is rather average but it was nice walking. Amir Chakhmagh is better to visit evening hours when lights are on. Most of the things worth seeing are near each other. There is also a park which is recommended to visit, but by the time we got there, it was already closed and it is bit out of the center, so you should take that into account when you want to go there.