Iran: the clay city of Yazd

Of all the trip around Iran, Yazd unanimously liked me most. We spent three days in it. And not because for a night in an authentic hotel we paid only 190 rubles per person (with breakfast!). Simply, the city is incredibly interesting.

Today is a tour of the old clay roofs of Yazd.

This is our hotel. More precisely, like ours, just abandoned. So it looks like the layout of a standard classical mansion. In the center there is a garden with trees, a swimming pool, a fountain, on the sides there are tables or ottomans. Under the dome, we had a restaurant, and on the sides of the garden were rooms - close, but cozy.

The main thing - this is to find an outlet to the roof. The easiest option is to climb to the "observation deck" of the hotel, at the entrance of which there is a sign "roof view" or "top roof view". We went up free of charge, giving in return postcards with Moscow kinds.

You can walk for a long time on the roofs of Yazd. Most houses are close to each other, and there is an opportunity to move from one roof to another. The main thing is to watch where you are coming, some sites fall apart under your feet.

Jami Mosque:

The panorama of the old city, which was preserved in the form in which it existed for many centuries back.

The clay city famous for its wind towers. Wind towers, or badjirs, are designed to cool air in living quarters and reservoirs.

Many buildings in the center of the city are crooked and skewed, with frightening cracks:

Light wells on the roof of one of the g From below it looks like this:

And this is one of the crossroads of the streets. View from the roof:

The bottom view is approximately the same or similar:

Evening Yazd is beautiful:

Walking around the old bazaar, I found an open door with access to the roof. I remember it was too damned hot. I climbed up and went to the side of the hotel. I walked about half an hour, climbed from the roof to the roof, it was easy somewhere, and somewhere it was not easy. So I went, until I rested on the street. It was necessary to descend, but all the doors were locked.

So I spent in the sun for about an hour, until I got through some apartment. These are the mounds:

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