Iran

„Iran? This is not a good idea for a woman to travel there alone on the bike .. I perhaps would go back, but only in the company of men" said female Belgian solo cyclists, which I encountered…

After arriving at the port of Bandar Abbas on the southern shore of Iran in the Persian Gulf, I was immediately noticed and caught from the crowd of other passengers by a border guard.  I was allowed to pass a long line…

The whitest of Iranian cities, Varzaneh gives the impression of a ghost town. The provincial town in the desert with the same name is famous for this, that most women here wear not black but white chadors. The view, particularly…

In the bus-city version Iran was much more pleasant. The bus quickly consumed kilometers, which would take me a good few days or a week to cycle. The landscape outside the window seemed to be stuck, for…