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3-week Iran Tour for Second Time Travelers: Jungle Trekking, Desert Immersing and Village Hopping

This itinerary focuses on the highlighted attractions surrounding the main Iranian cities, suitable for experiential travelers. From the Northern jungles to the spectacular deserts of Eastern Iran; from national parks to the unknown villages; all are included in a wonderful package for travelers looking for an off the beaten path through the land of Persia.

Starting our journey from Tehran, driving toward Semnan and Damghan the land of qualified pistachios. After a half desertic experience, we’ll drive toward the greenest part of the country, the ancient Caspian Hyrcanian mixed forests date back to one hundred and seventy million years ago. Visiting Nahar-Khoran jungle in Gorgan bounded by the Caspian Sea and enjoying several springs like Sefid-Cheshme and a beautiful river named Ziarat. Locals also coming by to picnic, drink Persian tea or smoke shisha in one of the cozy coffee shops. We will also visit Golestan National Park spread in Golestan, Semnan, and Khorasan provinces which is one of the most important wildlife habitats in Iran; tigers and brown bears are the most important species of this national park.

After the jungle trekking, we drive toward the holiest city in Iran passing a beautiful city named Sabzevar. The holy city of Mashhad is home to the most amazing shrine in the country, Imam Reza Shrine, and attracts the highest number of tourists every year.

Then you discover Birjand, one of the most beautiful cities on the eastern side of Iran. Our journey continues to a place full of wonders date back to the Achaemenid period, the bride of Iran deserts consisting of several tourist attractions. Tabas has beautiful gardens of sour orange, palm groves, and also it is home to historical attractions and monuments. We’ll mostly spend our time in Desert Villages, the best spots to feel the pristine culture and unique rural traditions; Esfahak, Nayband, and Ezmeyghan are the visitable villages of Tabas. Tabas has many other attractions such as Morteza Ali spring where the hot and cold-water springs surprisingly are flowing in one place, the mysterious Kal-e Jeni canyon, Halvan cave, Khan caravanserai, Kurit dam, and Tabas castle.

After an amazing voyage among Tabas desert and enjoying its matchless attractions we head toward central Iran, Khur o Biabanak in Isfahan province, which presents a different view of the desert. the desert of Mesr is one of the hottest deserts in Iran. Alongside the Mesr village, there are other small villages with beautiful sceneries like Amirabad, Farahzad, and Garmeh. We’ll visit Garmeh since it has spectacular characteristics in addition to palm trees, such as Dr. Fish springs with therapeutic fish and lovely guest houses. From Garmeh we’ll drive to Taft, the center of Zoroastrianism where we can also enjoy a different nature including pomegranate gardens.

Our desert sightseeing finishes here and our trip continues with a unique experience in a rocky ancient village near Kerman, Meymand village and afterward going for a completely different experience in Bavanat county with a partly mountainous climate and a beautiful nature where Bavanat farm stays welcome travelers from all over the world to remind them of the nomadic life. After roaming around Bavanat and live like a local we head toward Isfahan and will get close to the departure point!

*Autumn and spring are the best times to enjoy this route and its various sightseeing spots.

6-Day Iran Desert Tour: Hidden Gems of Dasht-e Lut

During this tour, we transfer from Kerman to the desert. We will also visit the picturesque Bam and the Mahan oasis. We will organize 4 × 4 excursions (Off-road vehicles) for two days. We will visit the spectacular Lut Desert, Shahdad Desert, and it’s Kalouts (Limestone Mountains carved by wind and sand). Hike to the Kalouts, which extend from the northwest to the southeast. These are spectacular natural structures that make the landscape magical. Then a journey through the history, architecture, desert, Persian garden, and caravanserai. Also, you will visit Meymand, a troglodyte village of 90 inhabitants where they still live in caves carved into the rock; then we will stop at Zein-o-din Caravanserai like ancient caravans on the Silk Road, we will spend the night at this caravanserai. Then the day after, we drive toward Yazd; the tour will end there. This tour starts in Kerman and finishes in Yazd. You can join our daily tour of Yazd to visit the sightseeing of Yazd. This is editable based on your preference. A beautiful and exclusive itinerary developed in collaboration with our professional local guide for experiencing unforgettable travel in Iran.

Our specialists can help you by adding this experience to most of our classic Iran tours so you will visit different cities, and you will also visit Kerman and enjoy the highlights nearby.

We have also a 6-Day desert tour, Expedition through the Largest Desert in Iran, which is suitable for adventure lovers, you can look at our marvelous tour here.

Iran Desert Tour & Safari in the Lut Desert

We experience three days in central-southern Iran that is a vast desert called lut desert. We are in the area of sand dunes, some of which can reach several hundred meters in height, up to 300 or 500 meters! With our off-road vehicles, we travel along sandy corridors dominated by dunes that stun for their simple and perfect beauty. The dunes invite us to go beyond them; we don’t always succeed at the first attempt, the cover-ups are inevitable, but this is also part of the desert rituals we know well. From their peaks, they invite us to admire the sunset and an incomparable panorama, without borders. Then at night, wrapped in the special silence of the great spaces, we will admire a splendid sky, so starry that it will fill our hearts with pure joy once again.

In this tour, we will visit, Qanat and fort in Shafiabad village and, Kalouts in Sunset. We sleep 3 nights in tents under a beautiful starry sky, accompanied by our staff of expert drivers with their 4WD off-road vehicles and Iranian professional guides. We have another choice to stay at night in Malek Abad village in luxury tents. In the tent, the facility of a 5-star hotel is provided.

We can add this experience to most of our classic Iran tours, so you can enjoy cultural cities like Shiraz and Isfahan and museums as well as the boundless desert of Iran in one package.

Dreamy Iran Tour of Hyrcanian Forests, Caspian Sea and Desert

A wonderful short trip to the unique natural areas in the North and Central parts of Iran. During this trip, you will visit the splendid Caspian Sea, the Hyrcanian forest which lately has been added to the UNESCO world heritage sites for its plant and animal species. Visiting the Mesmerising Badab-e Surt stairway springs is also in the travel plan.

After all the green natural spots you visit in North Iran with a daily transfer to the central part of Iran you’ll find yourself in heart of the desert! Where the endless beauties of sand domes will conquer your heart forever.

This trip can be followed by a 7-day classic tour from Yazd to Shiraz, Isfahan, Kashan, and returning to Tehran.

4 Days Visiting Chabahar- Sand Beach Tour

Chabahar port is a remarkable travel destination beyond the classic tours;

Locating in Sistan and Baluchestan, just nearby the Oman Gulf, Chabahar port is the closest travel destination to Pakistan! The port has a strategic trading and political situation! The beautiful scene of Chabahar and the stunning nature around it are so attractive that Chabahar receives thousands of visitors annually!

This tour is based on tourist attractions near and inside Chabahar port! The Pink Lagoon, Mangrove forests, the city of boats, and Martian mountains!

Best to be done with a Baluch tour guide from Chabahar.

Best time to visit? Chabahar has great weather all over the year, still, spring, autumn, and Winter are more suggested! In summer it may be warm!

How to reach Chabahar? You can easily fly to Chabahar from Tehran. There is a daily flight from Tehran to Chabahar and also Chabahar to Tehran that cuts your way and makes visiting Chabahar trouble-free.

6 Day Lut Desert Tour | Expedition through the Largest Desert in Iran

Very few know the way to enter the heart of Dasht-e Lut (UNESCO World Heritage Site), the largest Iranian desert, the destination of this extraordinary expedition. A place that until a few years ago was absolutely inviolate, an unavoidable experience for lovers and connoisseurs of deserts. As in all deserts, even in the Dasht-e Lut the landscapes change constantly and offer a series of surprising scenarios. Rock, sand, salt, water, and wind have generated a multiplicity of suggestive landscapes. The north of Lut is made up of volcanic hills, sand, and gravel. The central area consists of Egg hills and Canyon, while the southern part has salt and kalouts.

In this tour, we talk about a “real adventure” continuing with a 4×4 vehicle expedition in the Dasht-e Lut: we will go deep into the heart of this vast and mysterious desert- a real “forbidden zone.” This tour is suitable for 15 to 60-year-old travelers. In this tour we will sleep 5 nights in tents under a beautiful starry sky, accompanied by our staff of expert drivers with their 4WD off-road vehicles and professional guides.

THINGS TO TAKE WITH YOU

The Dasht-e Lut is a desert that you should visit in cool seasons like autumn and winter. Essential things you really have to make sure to take with you when planning to explore this desert are drinking water, snacks, warm clothes, light clothes, visor hat, snickers, power bank, rubbish sack, backpack, first-aid kit, ID card, sunglasses, and suncream.

Our specialists can help you by adding this experience to most of our classic Iran tours; therefore you can enjoy cultural places and museums as well as the boundless desert of Iran in one package.

Maranjab Desert Tour from Kashan

Many people choose Iran desert to go on vacation to enjoy the silence and the clear sky and do some extraordinary actions like off-road. A field that offers essential services for all the deserts that host travelers. The desert of Maranjab is the closest desert in Tehran.

Would you like to immerse yourself in a world of silence? Experience the endless expanse and beauty of a desert landscape? Crossing the Dasht-e Kavir desert, an expanse of sand and salt. Walk on the back of a dromedary or on foot through the sand and get to know the extraordinary desert tour.

Then immerse yourself in the fascination of the desert!

Maranjab Desert is one of the most beautiful desert regions in Iran. The high dunes and arched forests are the attractions of this region. The highest sand dunes in the east are about 70 meters long. This desert is located north of Aran and Bidgol in the province of Isfahan in Iran. Other attractions in Maranjab include a caravanserai on the Silk Road. Today, the caravanserai of Maranjab is used as a guest house. It has 29 rooms and welcomes tourists who visit this beautiful desert. The area around Maranjab is safe and an ideal place for camping.

If you want to travel to the Maranjab desert, the first half of spring, autumn and winter is the best time. At this time, the average daily temperature is 19 ° C and at night it is 5 ° C. In the summer, the daytime temperatures also reach 40 ° C. Therefore, the summer is not suitable for a trip to Maranjab.

Varzaneh Desert Tour from Isfahan

Day trips from Isfahan are very famous for Iran travellers because of the different highlights which surround this metropolitan. Desert sightseeing is one of the first options Iran travellers always consider. Varzaneh desert is the nearest place we can have a true desert experience when we are in Isfahan or Yazd. April, March, October, November and December are the best times to visit Varzaneh desert.

Varzaneh is one of the oldest civilizations, about 5000-years-old, shaped near the famous river named Zayhande-rood. Since the desert is very close to Varzaneh village and it takes only 10 minutes to get there, it’s one of the safest deserts and the most accessible one you can spend amazing times and make a unique experience out of it. Different activities and experiences are also available such as sand-boarding, camel riding, quad biking, paragliding, stargazing, zip line and much more.

Sleeping a night in Varzaneh desert can also be a unique experience for desert lovers. There are different choices to spend a night there such as Traditional guesthouses, Caravanseray and even Camping.

Discover Iran from the Caspian Sea to the Persian Gulf

In this 16 Day Travel, we will show you the unique highlights of Iran from North to the South. The main idea is to visit Nature, Nomad life, handicraft workshops, and also historical and traditional places.

This Tour was written and specialized to our French and Filipino friends, who indeed enjoyed their tour in the best way. They believed they have touched the real Iran culture. If you are interested don’t hesitate to check it out

3 Days Kerman Mixture Tour

Kerman, being a gem in the Lut desert, is one of the popular Iran destinations. This city locates in the southeast of Iran and is the closest capital city to Bam, Meymand, and Shahdad desert.

We suggest you this 3-day Kerman trip to visit Kerman attractions and enjoy the highlights nearby. This tour starts and finishes in Kerman and is editable based on your preference.

Iran Round Trip

A Different Experience of Traveling to Iran!

Exploring the desert, Trying the Persian Culinary Courses, and many more beautiful details. Make your decision to know more about Real Iran, Persian Culture, and Live like a local…

Feel free and leave arrangements to us.

5 Days Culture and History Tour of Yazd

This 5-day tour in Yazd is a mixture of city sightseeing and desert trips with spices of culture and interesting experiences.

2 Weeks Classic Iran Tour

In two weeks it’s possible to see the jewels of Iran’s rich history, but you’ll need to keep moving.

Start in Tehran and spend two days seeing the sights, including the Golestan Palace, the Treasury of National Jewels and Grand Bazaar.

Drive to Kashan, where you can explore the bazaar, check out the Qajar-era traditional houses and chill out in the Fin Garden.

Make a pit stop at the mosque and tomb in Natanz en route to architecturally magnificent Isfahan and spend three days exploring the blue-tiled mosques of Naqsh-e Jahan (Imam) Square, the bustling Bazar-e Bozorg, the sublime bridges across the Zayandeh River and the Armenian community at Jolfa.

Head to the desert trading city of Yazd for three days wandering the maze of lanes, gaping at the Masjed-e Jameh (Jameh Mosque) and climbing to the Zoroastrian Towers of Silence.

For a change of pace, stop in the desert village of Fahraj before spending a day visiting ancient Pasargadae and Persepolis on the way to Shiraz.

Spend two days in Shiraz, where you can see the Zand-era gardens and bazaar, and wander the old city.

Fly back to Tehran.

2 Weeks Travelling to Iran from Germany

Iran tour for German citizens is a highly demanded and recommended tour based on our German tourist reviews. This trip covers all highlight attractions in classic routes, from Tehran, the capital, continuing with visit of Kashan, Isfahan, Yazd and ending in Shiraz.

In this tour a Deutsch speaking tour guide will accompany the group/individual clients, sharing very good information about Persian traditional culture, new-brand cultures, History, Architecture and etc.

In case you would like to have English speaking driver-guide, please call for the price.

Desert Camping and Safari Trip in Iran

Friendly Iran Desert and Safari tour is a mix of Cultural, Historical and Adventure Iran Trip. One of the best recommendation for Teens and Children traveling in Iran with Family.
Iran Desert is truly a different destination for travelers who like having fun in Nature. This Iran desert tour by passing through different Desert areas makes a unique experience of desert activities like; Safari, Camel riding, Paragliding, Sandboarding, Buggy driving, Stargazing and camping in Desert.