Great for its cultural monuments, it just oozes history. I did not find it as ‘special’ as others make it to be – it is a fairly normal country, with superficial similarities to Turkey, where modernization in recent decades has also left its mark.
Visit #1
2016 (May): Ten days on a Dutch group tour in the Northwest, from the Azeri border via Ardabil, Tabriz, Kurdistan, Qazvin to Tehran.
World Heritage Traveller 