Duration: 8 Days & 7 Nights
Group size: Min 2, Max 12
Accommodation type: 3* hotels
Transport: Sedan car-Van-Mini Bus
Start: Tehran, Iran
Finish: Tehran, Iran
Day 1
TEHRANWhen you arrive at the IKA airport, your tourist guide will greet and accompany you to your hotel. You will have time to rest and relax before your morning tour of Tehran commences.
Tehran, a modern megalopolis, prides itself on having unique museums and unrivaled collections and artifacts dating from the earliest onset of history to the present era. Your tour will take you to some of the most famous museums in the country.
First of all you will visit the Golestan palace (UNESCO world heritage site). Then you head to Iran national museum. Your last stop will be Carpet museum, the first exclusive museum in Iran.
Stay overnight in Tehran.
Day 2
BANDARE-E ANZALI - 6 hours drivingAfter breakfast we drive to Masouleh which is at least a millennium old. It is one of Iran’s most famous stair-like village and is picture perfect. Then you will boat in Anzali lagoon.
Stay overnight in Anzali.
Day 3
TABRIZ - 6 hours drivingToday we drive to Tabriz. Visit the world heritage site of the Mausoleum of Safi-Ad-Din-e-Ardebili (UNESCO world heritage site).
Tabriz is home to one of the most cultured races in Iran, the Azaris. Visit Eil Goli park where the water resource was used for agricultural purposes.Tabriz Grand Bazaar is one of the oldest bazaars in the Middle East and the largest covered traditional bazaar in the world. From the bazaar we go to Kabood Mosque. Then you will visit the Tomb of Shahriyar.
Stay overnight in Tabriz.
Day 4
TABRIZ - JOLFA - 5 hours drivingToday you have an excursion outside the city.Drive to Jolfa to visit the UNESCO-listed Armenia church of St Stephanos 17km from Jolfa overlooking the Aras River. Stay overnight in Tabriz.
Day 5
TAKAB - 5 hours drivingToay you drive to Takab. En route visit Kandovan village. Kandovan, a village where the houses resemble caves similar to Cappodocia in Turkey, is located to the southwest of Tabriz. Then continue driving to Takab to visit Takht-e-Soleyman. The ancient fire temple dates back to Sassanid period.
Stay overnight in Takab.
Day 6
HAMADAN - 4 hours drivingIn the morning we drive to Hamadan. En route visit Alisadr cave, the biggest water cave in the world.
Hamadan is believed to be among the oldest Iranian cities. It is possible that it was occupied by the Assyrians in 1100 BCE. Hamadan is on one of the age-old Asia to Mediterranean caravan routes. Your tour includes visits to the Tomb of Avicenna, Gonbad-e Alavian (Alaviyan Dome), Tomb of Ester and Mordechai, and the Ganj Nameh Inscription which are relics from the period of Darius and Xerxes of the Achaemenian era.
Stay overnight in Hamadan.
Day 7
QAZVIN - 5 hours drivingDrive to Sultaniye. Visit Sultaniye dome (UNESCO world heritage site), the third biggest brick dome in the world with wonderful architecture. Drive to Qazvin. Visit Sa’d-ol-Saltane Caravanserai and Chehel Sotun (40 culumn) palace.
Stay overnight in Qazvin.
Day 8
TEHRAN - 5 hours drivingA wonderful excursion a waits you today. Drive to Alamoot village to visit a historical castle which is known as Hassan Sabbah’s Alamoot castle. Then visit Evan lake. Stay overnight in Tehran. Transfer to IKA airport to depart Iran.