Nader and I prepared for leaving at 8 but Hadi tried to convince us to stay more days or at least until breakfast, which made departure harder…
The weather today was strange. First just cloudy, which was very pleasant, then it looked as if a terrible thunderstorm would rise, but in the end it were a few raindrops and thunder and lightning.
Today, a car stopped and a man came to us with to bottles of Coca Cola, just giving them to us, wishing us a good trip and leaving. Some minutes later another car stopped, but this time we knew the driver – it was Hadi! He brought out a melon, made coffee and gave us some cookies, such an incredible and funny man!
When we left again, he followed us in the car for a while before he drove away to visit Soltaniyeh, where you can see the biggest clay dome of the world, also quite old
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dome_of_Soltaniyeh
Everywher you find photos to commemorate the fallen soldiers of Iran-Irac-War 1980-88
We drove on, not a single climb to do, no heat to suffer under and only sometimes windy from the front. So it is no big surprise that 6,5h after leaving Zanjan, we arrived in Abhar. Here, we stay in a room, called “suite”, but not exactly deserving that name. However, we can work and write and except for eating breaks this it what we do.