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Darband has a huge offer of restaurants, carpet on a bed, an old iranian tradition! Great place for lunch and dinner ... and unusual experience of dining ... some tourists say romantic and sexy! (Being on the bed with ur love ... other people too ... and all u can do is talking and eating!!! Nothing More!!! :D )
The Tehran Metro is a rapid transit system serving Tehran, the capital of Iran. The system consists of 4 operational lines, with construction having begun on a further two lines in 2007.
The line uses standard gauge. Ticket price is 1200 IRR for each journey (about USD 0.15, regardless of distance. On all Tehran metro trains, the first and last carriages are reserved for women who do not wish to ride with men in the same car. However, women can still ride other cars freely.
The Tehran Metro carries an average of 4 million passengers a day (500 million passengers per year in 2010).
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Easy to use and cheap, the metro cuts the ride from the north of Tehran to the bazaar from 2 hours in traffic to about 20 minutes.
Iranian teahouse in Tehran. Actually it is forbidden for women to smoke the waterpipe (at least in public), but as with many things in Iran the reality is much more relaxed than the theory.
Our original program did not consider a stop in Teheran because the recent news discouraged us. But after a quiet staying in Tabriz and the feeling of tranquility that I have since my entrance, we decided to spend two nights in the capital.
The traffic is congested like all the legends tell and I found out that Iranian drivers are champions in avoiding collisions since they are able to find their way even in impossible spaces between cars, but also because red signals and the normal rules of the street are interpreted in a very pragmatic way more than strictly respected even by pedestrians.
At the beginning we feel astonished in the middle of this confusion also because everybody is beeping at us, not for our limited ability to drive but for welcoming us in their city.
The atmosphere in Teheran is much more relaxed than in the news, but we meet very few tourists around. The sms start working again after two days of black out and we feel a little more connected to the world.
The carpets museum is interesting but the surprise is in the museum of modern art... there is just European and American modern art, no Iranian artist! What a pity!
At the end of our quick Teheran experience we can't miss the American embassy and the graffiti against the superpower, we take some quick photo with a lot adrenalin because we were worried that someone can see and... but maybe this is another prejudice that we have...
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Tehran Met Police - Didn't get a chance to see the real police stations or anything but there are hundreds of these tin-roof mini police thaanas in the cities, towns, villages and on highways. A local told me there are only few large scale stations, instead police is based in such local arrangements. The police uses Korean Kia cars. This one is opposite the National Museum of Iran.