Iran Description

Iran - birthplace of the great Omar Khayyam, the country of the East with a rich history of many thousands, the other, unlike anything, the planet on planet Earth.

Up to the forties of the 20 th century, the former name of Iran was "Persia". According to the historians, it was the Persians first learned to weave carpets and invented backgammon.

Today, it is - a welcoming, open country, and to a man who knows how to respect the foreign culture, this could open up unimaginable horizons.

True vostokolyubov Iran attracts precisely neizvedannostyu and its unpopularity among ordinary tourists. The beauty of this country, like hidden under clothing hijab beauty of this eastern women covered by a veil of mystery and attractive puzzles.

According to the Bible it is near the modern borders of Iran and Iraq was Eden, an earthly paradise, where a representative of the stronger sex for the first time showed its weakness, as the representative of the weak - his cunning.

Iran is located on the south - west of Asia. In the east it borders with Afghanistan and Pakistan, in the north - with Turkmenistan, Azerbaijan and Armenia in the west - with Turkey and Iraq. On the north by the waters of the Caspian Sea in the south - the Persian and Oman gulfs.

Almost the entire surface of Iran - the plateau, bordered difficult to border mountains.
Most of the territory is occupied by Iranian plateau, the average height is 1,219 m.

On the north is the Alborz mountain range (Mount Demavend, altitude 5604 meters), the south-west - Zagros mountain range (Mount Zerdkuh, altitude 4548 meters).