En-route to Exit

Location: Hormoz Hotel, Bandar-e Abbas, Iran
Date: 5th May, 2008

A long (600+km) drive today from Shiraz to Bandar-e Abbas, the port where we’re due to leave Iran from by boat tomorrow.

We broke the journey by stopping at Sarvestan, briefly as the traffic was held up be the sacrifice of a cow on the main road into town in honor of the Leaders (Ayatollah Khamenei) visit. We then stopped at the Sasanian Palace, just outide of Sarvestan, a lovely domed building from around the 5th Century CE.

Afterwards, the trucks pwnd the road. We saw hardly any cars for 300km, but loads of trucks heading to and from Irans main port. Ironically, being in Iran, there were no gas stations and we arrived at our final Iranian destination running on fumes…