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It may be hard to believe, but here, close to where we live in Khoonegeli you may experience winter landscape like few other places on earth. A short drive and a day hike will take you to remote mountain villages where you would spend the nights in cosy rural homes with wood fire and trek the area on foot or using your snowshoes during the day. The silence and the landscape is far beyond anyone's imagination of Iran. For any tour reservation or further information please write to info@caspiantrek.com or send a Whats App to +98 937 150 1993

Iranian cultural visits and cities can be a little repetitive and perhaps tedious after a period. If you wish to take a break and go into nature, perhaps ride a bike then we offer mountain bike hire in northern Iran. There are many forest roads in the vicinity of Khoonegeli , rural paths and also exciting trails suitable for down-hill biking in Iran. I can tailor-make a bike trip for you providing full logistical support if you wish to come over as a group and bring your own bikes . For further information please write to me farzinmalaki@yahoo.co.uk or send a Whats App to +98 937 150 1993

This is a common question from trekkers wishing to undertake a trek in Iranian nature. Basically, it depends on where you are, who your guide is and how likely it is that you come across locals. Shorts are not allowed for men or women alike. Short sleeves are OK if you are a man and also OK if you are a woman provided women have a long sleeve handy to put over their T shirt and a hat or a head scarf  which they put over their head when passing villages or coming into contact with locals. The minimum dress code for women in the urban areas i.e the long  overcoat is not compulsory in nature. If you are in very remote areas where coming into contact with locals is highly unlikely then you may wear shorts which cover the knee but remember the exposed parts o your legs will be more prone to bites ans sunburn. Asking your guide is a good option but you need also to consider that some guides are more conservative than others. For any tour reservation or further information p...

For any tour reservation or further information please write to info@caspiantrek.com or send a Whats App to +98 937 150 1993 And we crossed that bridge! We then had to negotiate our way through some steep rocky trail to get to the "flat" part of the trail grabbing whatever piece of rock we could. For the next time we decided to have fixed ropes installed or take a D tour and bypass this stretch. Beautiful oak forest of the southern Zagros with lush green meadows, interesting looking limestones carved out by the forces of nature are  in our vista, there is one that must be 25 m high in the shape of a mushroom, amazing!. We climb up a very steep scree only for Mehdi to tell us that we have taken the wrong path ! It is getting dark. We wait and he continues to see if he can find the trail leading to the first nomadic settlement, they call these Maal. Last time he came to this area was over 5 years ago so he could be forgiven for mistaking the path. Soon he comes back t...

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For any tour reservation or further information please write to info@caspiantrek.com or send a Whats App to +98 937 150 1993 Mehdi and I had talked about this trek for some months. He had been to this area twice before, the last being 5 years back. It is by far the remotest part of Iran, some 8 hours between the beginning of the trail from the city of Isfahan a grand part of which is a terrible dirt road recently constructed for the study of another damn dam on one of the great rivers of southern Iran, the Bazoft. Then the email came in. A Dutch/ Belgian couple, looking for a 10 day trek in the Alamut Valley in April. To cover 10 continuous days this time of the year would be very difficult if not impossible because of snow and risk of avalanches. A few emails later I put forward the idea of doing a 4 day trek from Ovan to the Caspian hinterland plus a week in the Zagros Mountains. Lady T who had been in touch with me on behalf of the couple accepted my offer, everything s...

This is said to be the most beautiful salt lake in Iran. I have been wanting to cross it on foot from East to West for a couple of years now but because of the narrow window in which one could do this before it is waterlogged or due to intense summer heat other commitments have meant it has not happened yet. Last Autumn together with a few friends, old and new we decided we wanted to cross it by 4WD. We had a professional off-roader named Hossein Delfan with us as the leading pilot. Below, you can see the outcome of this unsuccessful attempt. Hossein reckons that by mapping the area carefully it should be possible to do this crossing. It would be the first time in history if this happens. The locals I talked to said it was impossible because even in the height of the summer large parts of the dried lake remains wet just under the crust and you could only walk it. The walk would be approximately 52 kilometers and done in 2/3 days. In the old days camel herders and other locals used to w...