Yazd

The road pulled us out of the dunes and the ripples in the sand. Wind kept brushing thin veils of sand across the road, mirroring the freedom of the open road. We were now back to the tarmac road and the busy highway. Fun time was over.

back in the land of infrastructure, we fill up at an empty fuel station, buy a snack at a little shop, trucks appear and then cars, and finally we rolled into Yazd at late afternoon. It's RidingKismet's first 400 km ride and she does a little happy dance to celebrate.

Yazd, that magical labyrinth of clay walls and windcatchers rising from the desert. Our accommodation here is a more flashy variant of a caravanserai, with soft lights, big cushions, and corridors from the courtyard leading to restaurants and cafes.
IronChris, however, was more bratty than usual and nothing but Pizza could satisfy him. So we ended up at Café Papasi, where Kamran, the owner, found us so cute that he wrote our names in chocolate on the plate. Nadia encouraged him further and before we knew it we had to perform a cake feeding ceremony for all to watch - we didn't for our wedding so I guess it happened here instead. The night ended with laughter, great food, and new friendships with Kamran. IronChris’ cravings had never received such artistic recognition.
Although the city feels like there is a lot to explore, half of next day we needed to lay lazy in cafés to recover from too many kilometers kicked in the past days.

At Maghreb, we visit the Tower of Silence. The place rests on a hill, quiet and bare, a place where following the Zoroastrian tradition, the dead were laid on top of a tower, so that vultures would take care of them. A sky burial, clean and simple. Before the bodies went up, the family of the deceased would prepare the bodies in dedicated washing houses, showing respect, wishing farewell. Something about this place settles gently on you when you stand there in the falling light. Isn't the act of vising this place also a form of caravanserai? A place where the ultimate travelers are taken care of to have a rest and then say good bye, before the journey into the unknown continues?

We then had a warming drink at a roof top café with Kamran and Nadia, watching the stars in good company, before going to rest. Getting ready to say good bye the next day, to continue our own journey of unknown ending.Leggi altro