finally, elias' visa was approved and it was time to head to tehran to pick him up from the airport. under the name "mr. tourist", i took a 6h bus and met him at the hostel. we spent two days out and about in tehran, made some plans on where we'd be heading the next couple of days and met a pakistani tour guide in the hostel, who helped us with our pakistan visa application.
i also passed on johannes' old tent to elias and made him buy some cheap camping gear. we found ourselves in front of the german embassy once, where a couple of people immediately came up to us asking for help getting out of iran. we couldn't really do anything though. but that's the side of iran you don't see so quickly.Lue lisää