In the desert

Dear friends and casual readers, we wish you an happy 13th Dey 1389!

Yes, it sounds not very exciting, but this is actual date in Persia. They have an other calendar, with 365 days and 12 months too (they found that much before than us in Europe...), but it starts on the 21th of March. So, after Christmas, also the new year's celebrations were a little bit low-fi. The persian calendar has nothing to do with the arabic one, which is definetively the most stupid one, with only 355 days in a year. Anyway in Iran they use it for the religious stuff and festivities (quite a lot though) as in all the islamic country. That is because here every day has three dates: The persian one, the arabic one, and our date, which is by far the less important.

Anyway, we wish you an happy new year, and if you have forgotten, we wish also happy birthday to Kraus (he was born in Rovigo on the 3rd of January 1982). Everyone knows who Kraus is, so we do not have to explain it. If you have doubts, ask Riba, he was born just 362 days later, and his birthday was on the 31st of December.

Ok, I start to write something interesting too, which concerns with the titel of this post.
We were in the desert.
If you have never been in a desert, you should take the next opportunity to go in the desert. We can only advertise the central Iran desert, because it is the only one we have ever seen, but I think you can try with any other desert. We were in the oasis of Khur and we visited the villages of Garmeh, Mesr and Beyazeh. What for a fantastic experience! An Oasis it is really how you have ever imagined an Oasis is, with palms, water flowing in small channels irrigating the fields, peace, silence, farmers, camels, goats, donkeys and so on. And a desert is exactly how it was described at the school, warm in the day and fucking cold at night.
We slept one night in our tent, and the next morning we were completely without water... because it was frozen! But jumping from the dunes is so much fan, and follow the water path from the spring to the fields was so interesting. In Iran there are not so many foreign tourist, (we met really less than 10 not iranian people in almost one month). Therefore you feel not so stupid when you do really touristic things like ride a camel for 500 m for 50.000 Rials (almost 5 $).
Unfortunately we cannot upload any picture, because of some problems in all the interent cafe we tried untill now. We will try in future again.
By the way, now we are in Naein and we will cycle to Yazd on Tuesday morning. It is a 175 km trip, almost flat and we should be there on Wednesday in the afternoon.
Maybe there there is a better interent connection. Ok, goodbye, stay tuned.