9Nights & 10 Days

Included​​​​​​​
 All formalities for issuing the visa
 Welcome and assistance at the airport
 Accommodation in the indicated hotels
 Buffet breakfast in hotels (lunches and dinners to be defined according to the program)
 Means of transport at disposal
 Tour guide
 The entry tickets (to be defined according to the program)
 Domestic flight fee (to be defined according to the program)

Excluded
 Air fares for international flights
 Health insurance, baggage and trip cancellation insurances
 All personal expenses, laundry, telephone calls
 Tips to the guide and driver

 
1° day  Home country - TEHRAN
Departure with the scheduled flight to Tehran. Arrival and meeting with the guide, transfer to the hotel. Accommodation in reserved rooms and overnight. 
 
2° day   TEHRAN - SHIRAZ
In the morning visit of the city, located between 1100 and 1750 meters, close to Mount Damāvand.
The day begins with a visit to the National Museum (Mūze-ye Īrān-e bāstān), where there is a splendid collection of ceramics, terracotta, sculptures and stone engravings found in the main archaeological excavations.
The days continues with a visit to the National Jewelery Museum (open only from 2.00 pm to 4.00 pm - from Saturday to Tuesday). Inside we can see one of the most important jewelry collections in the world, accumulated over the centuries by all the Persian dynasties. If the jewelry museum is closed instead, we will visit the Museum of Glass and Ceramics, a splendid exhibition with hundreds of artifacts coming mainly from Neyshabur, Kashan, Rey and Gorgan, dating back to the second millennium BC. You can also see the Golestan Royal Palace (Palace of Flowers), the oldest of Tehran's historical monuments and a UNESCO heritage site.
Transfer to the airport and departure for Shiraz (flight duration of about one hour and twenty minutes).
Arrival in the city, transfer to the hotel and overnight.
 
 
3° day    SHIRAZ – PERSEPOLI – NAQSH-E ROSTAM – SHIRAZ 
In the morning we leave for the excursion to Persepolis (a UNESCO heritage site). Originally called Takht-e-Jamshid, it was built in the 5th century. B.C. by order of Darius, Xerxes and their successors.
We continue with a visit to Naqsh-e-Rostam where the tombs of four Achaemenid kings have been carved into the slope of a mountain.
Return to Shiraz to visit the city, known for its gardens and for some important monuments such as the Vakil complex which includes Vakil Mosque, Vakil Bazaar and the Hammam. In addition: the fortress of Karim Khan (to be visited from the outside), the caravanserai of Moshir, the Koranic school of Khan and the Mauseleo Hafez, the Iranian popular poet who steals the heart of those who read his ghazals.
Return to the hotel. Overnight.
 
 
 
4° day    SHIRAZ – PASARGADE – YAZD  
Departure for Yazd. On the way, visit Pasargade (a UNESCO heritage site), the first capital of the Achaemenid kingdom, where the tomb of Cyrus the Great is located.
Continuation of the journey and arrival in Yazd, a city with a color of clay, which rises on the edge of two deserts: the Dasht-e-Kavir and the Lut desert. It is famous for its Badghir, the characteristic ventilation towers on the roofs of the houses.
Start of city tours.
Check-in at the hotel. Overnight.
 
5°  day  Yazd 
In the morning the visit of the city that hosts the largest community of followers of Zoroaster. We will visit the "Sacred Fire" the temple where a flame that has been burning since 470 A.C. is preserved, the "Towers of Silence" two barren hills, where the Zoroastrians left their dead to the vultures to pluck their bones.
We continue by visiting the Friday Mosque (Masjed-e Jameh) which has a portal covered with majolica among the most beautiful in Iran and the Mirciakhmaq complex, with the beautiful square and the bazaar, the ancient district of Fahadan protected by UNESCO.
Return to the hotel and overnight.
 
 
6°  day  Yazd – Meybod – Na’in – Esfahan 
Departure for Esfahan. On the way, the first stop will be in Meybod where you can see the Narin castle which dates back to 3000 years ago.
The second stop during the trip will be at the citadel of Na'in and visit the Friday Mosque The Friday Mosque (Masjed-e Jameh).
The continuation of the journey to Esfahan, the city of a thousand and one nights. Arrival, hotel accommodation and overnight.
 
 
7°, 8°  day  Esfahan 
Two whole days dedicated to the visit of Esfahan which is among the most suggestive cities in the world. For centuries the city has been a crossroads of trade, merchants, enlightened artisans who have given impetus to the creation of a cultural, stately city that leaves you breathless for the beauty of its monuments. We visit the central square Naqsh-e jahan (512 x 163 meters - UNESCO heritage) which overlooks two theories of arches, in the lower part occupied by artisan shops (interesting are the shops of precious items: miniatures, turquoise, fabrics). Between the arcades fit the mosque of di Imam (mosque of the Shah - UNESCO heritage), by far one of the most beautiful in the entire Islamic world for the refinement of the blue and yellow tiles decoration and the harmony of the interior spaces. Then there is the little jewel: the Sheikh Lotfollah Mosque, in front of which you can see the royal Safavid Ali Qapu palace where it will be visited later. Around this particular square there is the very lively central Bazaar covered by small surmounted domes. The visits to Esfahan continue: Friday Mosque (Masjed-e Jameh), the royal palace of Chehel Sotoun (with forty columns) and the famous Sio-o-se Pol and Khaju bridges. Two nights in Esfahan. 
 
 
9° day   Esfahan – Kashan –Tehran 
In the morning departure for Tehran. During the trip we will visit Kashan, famous for the production of glazed pottery and for all its handicrafts.
Visit to Casa Borujerdi a historic villa and one of the bioclimatic dwellings dug into the typical soil of the region. After a few meters we visit the Hammam Sultan Amir Ahmad and finally we arrive at the garden of Fin where the great Shah Abbass was crowned.
Arrival in Tehran during evening. Accommodation in the hotel in front of the airport, overnight.
 
 
10° day   TEHRAN – Home country
Depending on the flight schedule, transfer to the airport with the hotel shuttles in time for the departure of the return flight to home.
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