1 July 2008

After saying goodbye to my friends in the train I cycled to the downtown to find a place to stay for a few days as Tabriz has some good places to visit and also a big bazaar which is the biggest one in the Middle-east you will find everything there and all different products has its own bazaar there.

I went to one of the guest houses named Masood in Amin St. I stayed there for about 2 nights but as I found there is a nosy place I left the guest house and called to a friend of my friend Ingrid one of my website visitor’s friends (Ingrid) in Tabriz, in fact Marc is a nice guy from Netherlands who cycled in Iran before and he met this nice family, anyway.

Ingrid was busy but she invited me for having lunch together in their garden 25 Km outside of the town, we made an appointment to meet each other somewhere around her home, then I went there, it was close to the EL GULI garden(it is one of the famous places in Tabriz with a really good atmosphere), in the lunch party I met their friends as well and I had my favorite food which I didn’t eat it since I started my journey, it was a really time there with those guys, at the night time I went to her home for having a cup of tea but her son Yasha and me were talked a lot until midnight then I slept there, I got up around 7:00am,

I gave water to the garden and flowers till they got up, we had a good breakfast it was very delicious, then I went to the bazaar again to see more and find out more about the good sights for visiting in the city. I stayed for 2 days longer in Tabriz but I put my tent in EL GULI garden which was really nice place but something was bothered early in the morning around 5:00, it was nothing just the Crows sound it was too much annoying early in the morning and I couldn’t sleep well anyway.

After 2 days I left Tabriz to Bostanabad in the evening late around 4:00. The road was mostly hilly and windy, I couldn’t reach the town in daytime as it was about 55KM far from Tabriz and I was started so late, I stayed in a small village on the way near the Quory Gueol Lake (Quory gueol Lake is one of the most beautiful leisure places of the province, and one of the natural shelters for many migrant birds) but I had a really bad experience on that night, the weather was cloudy and too much wind, hardly I could find a place to put the tent and no one helped me to direct a place to stay in that village, I was so sad about this because I was in my homeland and I had different expectation from the people from my country, anyway.

The weather got rainy and too stormy at midnight and I got worry about the rain if it doesn’t stop, because it was too hard rain, but fortunately, I fixed the tent so strong on the ground and the rain drops didn’t come to the tent, I’m always appreciate the staffs of Wechsel-tents they are so detail about outdoor tents. The rain stopped around 3:00am and after that I could sleep for a while until 7:00 am. Then I stayed a bit longer for the tent to get dry. I went to the bakery to buy some fresh bread for my breakfast; in the morning the weather was nice even I had a bad night before that.