Into the Desert

The first signs of travel fatigue were showing - every day being filled with exploring new places, meeting new people, and overcoming significant challenges such as “who will be able to answer me when I need to find the bathroom next?”

This was exacerbated by a half day group trip around some historic villages and temples out of the city, where we plodded along listening to the guide decide aloud just how many hundreds or thousands of years old a particular building was. Quote of the day: “This Mosque is very ancient, and new”.

Then, when every headed back to the city, we grabbed a driver and got him to take us into the desert. We drove for another hour into the wilderness, through a tiny oasis town, and into the giant sand dunes beyond. Here is where we overcame travel fatigue with total freedom in the dunes. There were bails down the steep dunes, some wild camel stalking, and even a bit of Frisbee. Then we finished off with some tea around the bonfire with our driver under the stars - so Bromantic. Arriving back at the hostel after a 2 hour drive back to civilisation, we were totally refreshed and exhausted.

Photo: Dune jumps (followed by dune bails - photos to come once we're out of Iran)