Keyvan Nayyeri

First of all, I want to notify you that I’m going to start a blogging session specializing on active blogging and off-blogging techniques to share my experiences from the past few months with you, so if you’re interested, drop me a line!

But seriously, I was off enjoying my holiday times in Shiraz, one of the most historical areas in the world hosting many ancient places of one of the first human civilizations that ever has existed. Shiraz and the surrounding areas are known for their rich history and culture that belongs both to pre-Islamic early history and post-Islamic era.

I should confess that I really needed this short vacation to recover from the past 2-3 years and find myself again even though our short stay was full of visits from several places that were crowded by many domestic and international visitors.

During our short stay in Isfahan and longer visit of Shiraz, we visited several places but the most notable places that are also very well-known around the world were tombs of Hafez and Saadi, Eram Garden, Persepolis, and Pasargadae.

Despite the crowd and inappropriate weather, I had the opportunity to take many photos and have uploaded a huge batch of them on my Flickr account that can be found in this tag.

But the most interesting part of my trip was the visits that I had from Persepolis and Pasargadae as two famous UNESCO World Heritage Sites that were the capitals of Achaemenid dynasty in the early history. There were many places to visit and enjoy in these two sites especially the tomb of Cyrus the great who was the first governor who introduced the words of liberty, human rights, and peace to the world with his famous cylinders.

Regardless of the rich history and culture that could be seen in every place and cannot be destroyed with the below stuff, the most annoying point for me was, seeing the bad condition of these places and the ignorance by the government to maintain and recover them. Unfortunately during the Islamic revolution and after that, many of the invaluable parts of these places were stolen and brought to the western museums especially in the United States and United Kingdom, and the important remnants are disregarded by the government and no one is trying to keep them for the future.

It’s a matter of a fact that our current government doesn’t care about history at all and never has tried to do anything to build better attractions around these places. As far as I know, there are only a few countries in the world that have a real history and Iran can be considered as the richest one both in regards to the number of historical resources and to their variety in the history and type. It should take over 60 days for a visitor to visit all the first-level historical places in Iran. All other countries with less resources are putting the best efforts to maintain their history, but we’re just destroying it!

All in all, I think that I have found my sense of historical interest that I never had! It should be a good change! How about changing this blog to a history blog?