Experience Iran

• Visit Tehran Capital and explore the ground bazaar
• Explore Kashan historical city
• Visit Yazd world heritage city of UNESCO
• Esfahan city tour and Photography of the blue mosques
• Photography of Sheikh Lotfollah Mosque
• Naqsh-e Jahan Square Sightseeing tour (UNESCO)
• Aali Qapu Palace
• Abbasi Great Mosque (Masjed Shah)
• Visit Persepolis, the Main Iran UNESCO site
• Shiraz sightseeing tour, the city of the lovers and poets
• Photography of Masjed Nasir-Ol Molk (the Pink Mosque)
• The ground bazaar of Shiraz and Shah Cheragh Shrine
• Luxury night train of Shiraz to Tehran

As you know, Iran is a vast country with a large number of tourist attractions, rich culture and history, mountains and desert alongside different climate in the same time in different region. These special tourism advantage created a very good opportunity with a lot of options in each season of the year. Iran has 27 UNESCO sites (till Sep 2023), many unregistered world heritages (54 sites) which is on the tentative list of UNESCO which are located in every corner of this large historical country. Those facts for those who have not much information about the country create an important question that : How to make a good decision with a lot of choices for my trip to Iran?

In addition, if you like to add one activity like trekking beside of your cultural-historical trip, it makes your decision much harder!

This fact forces most of travelers to spend a lot of time to prepare a strong travel itinerary which is cover combination of different attractions together. We solve this issue with our this efficient travel itinerary.

If you travel to Iran for the first time and would like to explore the main highlights of the country and having trekking in non-tourist region among of experience of local people, you come to the right place. This special trip is an intensive version of our different trips. Classic Iran, Dena mountain trekking and Bakhtiari Nomadic Tribes tours are three journeys which located in different regions of the country. This trip is one of the most attractive Adventure Iran’s trip proper for those who are familiar to travel more faster than other general visitors. The entire trip is a two-week packages tour which is divided to two parts in two different weeks.

1. The first part is a cultural-historical trip which is very efficient for first time visitors. The designed tour passing throughout the Classic Iran tourist path start from Tehran and finish it in Shiraz. (7 days)
2. The second part is an active multi prepose journey alongside trekking in two regions of Zagros Mountains which is lands of different nomadic tribes. We start it from Shiraz and finish it in Tehran. (7 days)

The cultural part is focus on an intensive visit of Iran’s famous attractions in 4 main tourist cities of Tehran, Esfahan, Yazd and Shiraz. The main purpose of this part is understanding the rich history of ancient Persia beside of visiting the most beautiful monuments, mosques and shrines, palaces, bazaars and visiting modern Iran’s today highlights. You also experience of staying in nice authentic accommodations like Persian traditional hotels, historical houses and boutique hotels.

The second part has totally different face which is cover non-tourist region of Iran and a short visit of Kashan famous historical city. The main activity is hiking in off the beaten track of two authentic regions. These two regions located in two famous mountains chains of Dena and Zardkuh which are subrange of Zagros Mountains. Our trekking trip in Dena mountains is inside of Dena national Park which is located in the foothill of the MT Dena chains. And our walking trip in Zardkuh mountains is among the nomadic areas of Bakhtiari tribes. They migrate to highlands of the mountains seasonally with their family and animals in spring and summer seasons. Both above mountain regions are perfect for landscape and people photography.

The grade of difficulty of hiking is moderate and its suitable for most healthy travellers who love beautiful landscape. The best traveling time is spring and beginning of the autumn and are group tour take place during the best traveling time as well.

If you already visit Iran before, we provide a chance for you to join us only for trekking part on the 2^nd  week of this trip.

Summary 

This multi-purpose travel itinerary will start from Tehran and will finish in Tehran. It’s an overland loop trip passing through a tourist and non-tourist regions of Iran. Your trip starts from the hotel in Tehran that we have considered in the downtown having good access to the main capital’s important sites. After visit of Tehran capital and Golestan Palace (UNESCO), we will travel towards the south. The second destination is Esfahan city (half of the world), which is the capital of the culture and art of Iran. We will visit the main highlights of Esfahan and the two famous world heritage sites; we will continue our journey towards Yazd UNESCO selected city. Yazd is the most famous desert city of Iran and it is located on the edge of Dasht-e Kavir desert. After exploration of the world heritage city of Yazd, we will travel to Shiraz which was the capital of the Persian Empire. We will visit Persepolis UNESCO heritage site before arriving Shiraz. We will finish the first part of our trip with exploring the main highlights of Shiraz. At this point we will complete the classic cultural and historical part of our trip which is take one week.

Then, from Shiraz, we will continue our 2nd part of overland trip towards the trekking regions which are located in south west and west of the country. Dena mountains chains located in the north of Shiraz and Zardkuh mountains located in the west of Esfahan. In the Dena Mountain region, you will have a 3-day moderate hike in Dena National Park, which is a UNESCO Biosphere Reserve region. We will passing rise fields, canyons, oak forest and amazing wild landscape of this protected region make an unforgettable hike for your trip. After finishing the hike, we will continue our trip towards Zardkuh mountain region for another walk for 2 days. You will be staying with the local tribes and experience the nomadic life of Bakhtiari’s tribes, which is still alive. Afterward finishing our hiking, we will drive to historical city of Kashan. We have a half a day cultural visit of Kashan before finishing the tour. We will back to Tehran on day of 14 which is the last day of the trip.

The overland distance would be about 2700 km combination of highway, backcountry road, off road and dirt roads. Your approximate walking distance in the mountain would be about 60 km and your city walk tours would be about 30 km in total.

You could finish your trip in Kashan on day 13 or 14 and catch your return flight from IKA international airport which is 210 km away from Kashan takes bout 2.5 hours.

Getting in touch if you would like to take the 2nd segment of this trip please!

Please contact us for more detail!

• Iran Travel Visa
• FAQ of Iranian Foods & Drinks
• Dress Code FAQs
• General Iran FAQs for Traveling

1. This Iran package tour is an exclusive small group tour for 4-12 people.
2. The tour price is based on twin-share accommodation, but single supplements are not compulsory for Adventure Iran tours. If you prefer not to pay a single supplement, we’ll pair you with someone else of the same sex for you to share with throughout the trip.
3. If there is no other solo traveller available who wants a shared room at the time of your tour request, we will inform you to book your trip with single supplement room.
4. In the mountain region and non-tourist area, we are using local houses or guest houses and private rooms are not available. In this type of accommodations all travellers sleeping on the shared room based on the travel itinerary.
5. it’s necessary to book this trip at least 3 months before starting date.
6. We have € 100 discount for early bird travellers who book their trip 6 month in advance.
7. As travelers coming from different country with different flight time, we do not consider airport pick up and drop for our group tours. If you would to have pick up transfer, please let us know at the time of your tour booking.
8. As this trip is an intensive version of three tour packages, we will have a tight operational travel plan and all travellers should be prepare for following the planed itinerary. Its suitable for experience travellers who are ready for adventure travel. You might to sleep late in some days of our city walking tours and rise early on the next day to be able to cover the most attractions of each destination.