Before 6.a.m., Arshua, the son of the family came to wake me up and very soon after I was ready, he came to get me for breakfast, Ahdiye had already prepared. But besides that, she also had prepared nuts and fruits for me for the tour.
In the garden, they showed me their lemontree and Kakitree and again gave me some.
Then I left to the next city on my way, Bonoruyeh.
This time, a truckdriver wanted to make selfies, and later, a man stopped his car to offer help (I tried to make the SIM card work) and gave me his number if I would need help. But my only problem was that the phone didn’t work and it is hard to call for help in this case in that matter ?
The mountains had a different structure, looking like melting.
For the first time, I had started a day tour and not filled up my waterbottles. I ate some apples instead and found out, that those speared dates were hard outside but you could suck liquid out of it. Well, only date-size quantities and not too many dates caught by the leaves.
My camera apperently was inspired by Arash’s creativity (at Hafes shrine) and here are some of those photos, uneditet.
it turned to normal, later.
And then, when I was near Bonoruyeh, my phone came back to life by itself and at the right time, as Jamid Abbasi, who would have hosted me there, had contacted another friend, Hassan, and I was not long finished with writing, when Hassan came by car to fetch me. I followed a car, but this time only for short and most probably for the last time in Iran (see later posts!)
Again, there was a so good lunch to eat and it was nice to see Hassan and Somayeh sharing a plate (They always do it like that 🙂 ). Somayeh has two of the best occupations to think of, she is midwife and teacher for first aid, so near the essence of life. And Hassan is (besides other things) architect, what was first to see at is own house, later he showed me some houses of his plannings in Bonoruyeh. And both are so young!
A friend came for a short visit, she is English teacher and then Hassan offered me to rest. I tried but was too restless for rest. So, I tried to update the blog, but again the connection was gone.
We visited the caravanserai, which would be one of a few in this style but the would need money for restauration and doesn’t get. When Hassan and I got there, some men where there, too, to show and explain and again an English teacher, Ayup Rahpayma for translation. One of them, Salman Bashkar, had made a website for this and other treasure they want to preserve.
Ayup shows from the hole to the middle were the water was lead to for the animals
Salman, life editing for website and in the back rooms in different sizes for less or more important travellers, but all for free
On the mountain behind that, you could see remains of the king’s castle.We went on to a huge square with a clay “fencing” of 2-4m which are the leftovers of a10m wall around the very old town.
only when looking hard you can see the wall between trees and mountain
here, in old times, a well had been digged
the well
Then I also saw parts of the old town, so that I got an overview of four layers of Bonoryeh. But here I had to give up and we went home, having dinner for three on two plates and some talk of three persons and digital assistance.
Then I started my homework (editing and writing, you know) but I was too tired to continue.