Tehran – Day 2

Schoolgirls at the Saadabad Palace

Day two in Iran and we spent most of the time driving in a van back to north Tehran to visit the Saadabad Palace which was closed yesterday.   Because of the terrible traffic in the city, getting from point A to B is excruciatingly slow and limited our ability to visit more sites.  Also, I don’t think our tour guide is very keen on spending much time in the center of the city and seemed very set on heading back to the peace and quiet of north Tehran. Good for him but bad for all of us who have had more than our fill of visiting palaces…they loll look the same. We missed out on many things I would have preferred to see like the National Museum, Carpet Museum and the Jewel Museum. We did have a nice lamb kebab lunch at a downtown restaurant and we also got to visit the Azadi Monument which I missed the last time I was here.

I can’t write much more as we took a red eye flight to Shiraz and just landed at our hotel…a dive of a place that isn’t a good start to this part of the trip. Hope things get better from here.  Almost 3AM…good night. 

Motorcycles outside of our Tehran hotel