shiraz

this hitchhiking experience could've easily ended my trip. everything went super smoothly, until i got out of the second ride of the day and left my fanny bag containing credit cards, cash reserves as well as my passport and visa in the car. i was very frustrated with myself, this should never happen. i kept my cool though. thankfully, we had exchanged instagram contacts and after two hours of waiting at the spot where we had been dropped off, the guy came back with my untouched bag. i was beyond relieved and tried to give him money for basically saving my life, but he refused and said "i didn't do it for the money, i did it because i am a good muslim". damn.

now extra careful with our belongings, we hit the road again, and after a couple more rides, i finally got the opportunity to ride on the back of one of those blue nissan pickups that you see everywhere in iran. although many people do it, it's still illegal and we were stopped by police. luckily, they were only interested in catching illegal afghani refugees though and we got away lucky for the second time.

we finally arrived in shiraz in the evening and checked into the hostel. although many iranians told us that shiraz was perhaps the nicest city in the country, we didn't really find anything of interest there and felt like we had seen everything after half a day of walking around.Lue lisää