CS in Yazd

Yazd is a desert city



















































windcatchers - natural air conditioning towers



























Yazd is also a center of zoroastrian culture - religion and philosophy based on the teachings of Zarathustra. It is together with Hinduism one of the oldest religions on Earth and was also the main religion in old Persia, before Arabs came and brought Islam.

Towers of Silence are one of the characteristic zoroastrian consturctions. They were built for the dead. According to zoroastrian beliefs dead bodies pollute the soil, when burried and pollute the air and fire when burned, so they took all corpses up to the towers, so that vultures would have easier access to the food and bodies would go in to natural circulation and get rid of all the evil.
Now the towers are not used anymore, the dead will be sealed off into concrete.





























































Zoroastrian's fire temple - fire and water symbolize purity and are both considered as life-sustaining


Our host Balal showed us once again another example of iranian hospitality.













Balal picked us up from the bus station and brought us to the place where in the evening we had view like this ...

















...and in the morning we discovered that the place we were sleeping looked like this ...


our stay in Yazd was even funnier because of the complany of Balal's old paykan - one of the most inefficient Iranian car models, taking 20 l petrol per 100 km and having no real filters or supressors.
Also age was giving hard times to paykan, so starting the engine was every time a 'now or never' experience.















Balal, Branko and a dutch guy trying to give birth to another Paykan ride.















Later we discovered that all that Paykan needs is water. Which is logical - with the heat like in Yazd, everybody was drinking a lot but nobody gave any drop to Paykan. So after we got little closer to Paykan's soul, he became much less moodier.














Main square






















recruiting to Al-Qaida

















evening literature: A Code of Ethics for Muslim Men and Women






















There are rules for everything !
For men looking men, for men looking women, for women looking men, for women looking women, for looking photographs, rules for watching films, even rules for wearing socks....
















Branko and Balal relaxing after another successful day
















Traditional Iranian wrestling. Seamed more like excersising.