Yazd
On the road
The fellow in the green turban joined our bus on the way, so he sat on the floor up front. The first photo of us showed how much taller I was; so for this one, I squatted.
Silk Road Hotel
We were staying at Orient Hotel, but the nearby Silk Road had working wireless internet, and a better menu. (The ownership was the same.)
Friday Mosque
The hotels were nearby.
Amir Chakhmaq
This structure is apparently called a Tekyeh; Lonely Planet calls it a Hosseiniyeh. Apparently it is for the ritual mourning of Hussein ibn Ali.Orient Hotel
Thursday morning.
Zoroastrian fire temple
Ayşe and I walked to this on Thursday morning.
Ab anbar
We saw this water reservoir signposted on the way back, but still had trouble finding it and getting in; a little boy knocked on a door for us, and the caretaker showed us around. The towers are badgirs, apparently meant to cool the water under the dome. However, the reservoir was dry. There was a shrine in the same compound, but the connection to the reservoir was not clear.
Back streets
Friday Mosque
Afternoon tour
There were various houses one could visit—Lonely Planet had a walking route—but just wandering these streets seemed to be sufficient amusement. (We visited the roof of a hotel, on somebody's recommendation.)
Tehran
Thursday night the four of us took a bus to Tehran.
Old American Embassy
Our hotel (called Atlas) turned out to be on the same street as the old US embassy. The staff there had been taken hostage when I was in school. I did not know then that the 1953 coup had supposedly been orchestrated from the embassy basement.
Golestan palace complex
National Museum
Reza Abbasi Museum
Glassware and Ceramics Museum
The museum seems to have no Wikipedia article, but has its own website.
Tehran Bazaar
At intersection by old US Embassy
The bookshop next to the old embassy seemed to sell works of interests to the followers of Khomeini; but they had also a Persian translation of Kant's Critique of Pure Reason on display. On the opposite corner was a Greek church.