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The Pigeons Tower by Roberto Pazzi https://flic.kr/p/2jM1APp

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Day 43, 12 Feb 2019, Meybod, Chak Chak, Kharanaq

For centuries, before the advent of modern commercial shipping routes, travelling merchants and their caravans made their way along the famed Silk Road, carrying with them exotic food, spices, animals, and goods, onward to exotic lands. Along the way, they put up in caravanserais, which are inns that provide shelter for them from the dangers of the road, before they continue their onward journey the next day. In a way, perhaps the most important legacy of the caravanserai was its role as a crucible for the exchange and interaction of cultures along the length of the Silk Road. Not only did they facilitate the movement of people and goods along these long and arduous routes, they also provided opportunities for these travellers to come together, to share stories and experiences, and ultimately, cultures, ideas and beliefs too. Persia, being at the crossroads of the great Near and Far Eastern civilisations, is naturally dotted with aplenty caravanserais. At the caravanserais that are preserved in Meybod and Kharanaq, you would be able to see how a standard room would have looked like in the past, albeit furnished with modern bedding and household items. Nonetheless, the very same buildings did host travelling merchants centuries before us, and it is not difficult to see how they are truly an oasis for those merchants forming at the edges of Iran’s vast deserts.

Along the way, we also made a stop at Chak Chak, where a Zoroastrian shrine towers above the desert plains. Before the advent of Islam and the extensive reach of its caliphates, Zoroastrianism was the dominant religion in Persia, which has a distinctive style of fire worship and an equally distinctive style of burial, where the dead are exposed at the top of Towers of Silence, and wild birds peck on the flesh until only the bones remain, before they are brought back to the ground. These practices have largely faded in modernity as the number of Zoroastrians dwindle. In Chak Chak, legend has it that the Sassanian princess, Nikbanu, fled an invading Arab hoard. She was then trapped at a mountain cleft, having nowhere else to run to. In desperation, she prayed devoutly, and the heavens who had pity on her, opened up the mountains and water trickled out of it. As a result, the area was named Chak Chak, which means drip, drip, in Persian.

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Meybod ( Iran )

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Sometimes weaving is like making music #prayerrugs#zillo carpets #meybod#iran (hier: ايران اصفهان)

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Dovecote Tower

Name: Dovecote Tower Location: Meybod, Yazd province, Iran Category: Monuments Height: About 8 meters Era: Qajar Description: Dovecotes were built as a place to collect the pigeons and other bird manure for use in agriculture   نام: برج کبوترخانه محل: ایران، استان یزد، شهر میبد دسته بندی: آثار تاریخی ارتفاع: حدود 8 متر دوره: دوره قاجار شرح: کبوترخانه در قدیم به عنوان جایگاهی برای حمایت از پرندگان بی پناه بوده و از کود پرندگان در این مکان، برای مصارف کشاورزی استفاده می‌شده است   Please upload your related photo of Iran (If confirmed, it will be displayed on the website with your name) لطفا عکسهای مرتبط خود از ایران را از طریق لینک زیر برای ما ارسال نمایید. در صورت تایید، عکسها با نام و مشخصات شما در وب سایت منتشر خواهند شد Upload: https://itourisma.com/upload   Read the full article

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Farnaz skiing at Dizin in the Alborz mountains north of Tehran⠀ ⠀ a free copy of my journal at http://leveretcroft.com/iran-2/⠀ ⠀ #travel #traveljournal #travelblog #iran #tehran #shiraz #isfahan #yadz #meybod #mountains #dizin #skiing #adventure #exploration #expedition #persepolis #chakchak #bam #kerman #caspian #shahmizard #badabsoort # Naqsh-e Rustam #dariusthegreat # zarathustra # zoroaster⠀ (at Dizin, Tehran, Iran)

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🙏Follow Us On Instagram : @didaniha_agency Usage: Sending letters by pigeons. They keep thousands of pigeons there. 🙄 #Yazd #Meybod #IRAN #Old_Texture_Yazd #Pigeons_House #Kabotar_Khaneh #History: #Safavian_Empire #IRAN #Yazd #Yazd_Tour #Tourism #World_Heritage #Historic_City #Ancient_Civilization #9_July_2017 #UNESCOs_World_Heritage_List #didaniha_travel_agency (at Meybod) https://www.instagram.com/p/Bh8SXCMnWCM/?igshid=efp241s87m96

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. 📷 نمایی از آسمان و شهر زیبا و تاریخی میبد از فراز نارین قلعه . A view of beautiful and historical city of Meybod (Yazd province) from top of the Narin-Castle . #میبد #نارین_قلعه #آسمان #یزد #بادگیر #تاریخ_ایران #meybod #yazd #sky #cloudy #cloudysky #ancient #history #historical #goldenshutter #anjoman_aj #iran #ir_worldphoto #ir_akasbashi #ir_photo #ir_ig #ig_iran #ig_shotz (at نارین قلعه) https://www.instagram.com/p/BvlYvhqgQbv/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1w4276wxxglco

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Narin Qal'eh, a Sasanid castle in #Meybod , #Iran Narin Qal'eh, un château de Sasanid à Meybod, Iran #irania #traveltoiran #mustseeiran #narinqaleh #sasanid #sasanian #history #wonderland #irangraphy #castle #histoire #château #terredesmerveilles #heartofthemiddleeast #middleeast #moyenorient #desert #désert

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Kabootar Dovecote (Pigeon Tower), Meybod, Iran (source)

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Yakhchāls, ancient evaporation coolers, came into being around 400 BC. The giant conical structures allowed ice to be made and collected during the colder months and used throughout the year for things like preserving food and making faloodeh, a traditional Persian frozen dessert made with thin noodles and semi-frozen syrup.

Different design features kept different yakhchāls cool, from spiral structures to wind towers and vents. Some yakhchāls had holes near the bottom, to keep cool air flowing into the vast underground portion of the structure where the ice was made and kept, and holes near the top through which hot air would be funneled out.

Walls were often built to keep the water shaded as it was channeled in to the yakhchāls so it would freeze faster. Yakhchāls also served as places to store ice that was brought down from nearby mountains and often food as well. The extremely thick waterproof and heat resistant walls were made of a special mixture of sand, clay, egg whites, lime, goat hair, and ash called sarooj.

Many of these monuments to ancient Persian ingenuity are still around today, hundreds of years later. One of the easiest to find is the one near the Narin Castle in Meybod, Iran, but there are also some in Iranian cities like Yazd and Kerman.

I live in the HOT desert near Death Valley.  I was wondering, if anyone or group has used the idea of Yakhchals (which I have not known about, till now), to keep water cold, or tried to freeze, currently. What a great energy-saving idea Yakhchals are!

The engineering is not clearly explained, especially the part about “evaporative cooling”. It seems more likely that the owner applied straw on the sunny side to protect against solar heating, and cooling was by radiation into the north sky at night. The rest of the structure was merely well insulated. A fairly cool ground temperature was also part of the deal, as the water system was rather elaborate in those areas. If you want to experiment you could try Styrofoam insulation with foil on the sunny side. Any lumber yard carries that material.

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Meybod, Southern Iran Yazd Province 

Pottery since 8th century BC, knowledge passed down generations

tandoors

craft is their heritage

trade is down due to competition, cheap imported ceramics flooding the market

tradition of fish, birds, flowers and sun decoration, every workshop paints something different

glaze- broken glass into grinder for 10 hours, turns into flour-like paste to which water and tree sap is added

underground wood fired kiln, cladded with bricks to close

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Ziloo Museum

Name: Ziloo Museum Location: Meybod, Yazd province, Iran Category: Museums Built: 2002 Description:  Ziloo Museum is held in an ancient Caravanserai in Meybod to exhibit the historical pile less carpet.   نام: موزه زیلو محل: ایران، استان یزد، شهر میبد دسته بندی: موزه ساخت: 1381 شرح: موزه زیلو در کاروانسرای تاریخی شهر میبد، برای نمایش زیلوی ایرانی بنا شده است   Please upload your related photo of Iran (If confirmed, it will be displayed on the website with your name) لطفا عکسهای مرتبط خود از ایران را از طریق لینک زیر برای ما ارسال نمایید. در صورت تایید، عکسها با نام و مشخصات شما در وب سایت منتشر خواهند شد Upload: https://itourisma.com/upload Read the full article

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To jest sklep z samymi chustami ręcznie tkanymi. Do wyboru mamy bawełniane, bawełnianojedwabne lub jedwabne. Brałabym wszystkie 😀 P. S. Zajęcia z podstaw tkactwa w pracowni Robótki Stefci odbędą się 24 maja. Warto spróbować nauczyć się tkać, a potem zaszaleć z wzornictwem na swój własny sposób. Zapraszamy. Ja i @splotkaart #iran #stefciapodrozuje #podróże #odkrywam #persja #traveling #farsi #cotton #meybod #scarfs #szale #szal #silk #jedwab #handwoven #handmade #ilove #robotkistefci #robotkistefci #stefcia (w: Meybod) https://www.instagram.com/p/BwmExHmIQCc/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1lmpf5bpkqyc7