Afghanistan
was a pretty amazing country to visit. As Lies and Delphine told you it has a
lot of culture and history but its political and economical state is not what
it's supposed to be.
Every day
we hear news items about this area of the world and after a while, I have to
admit, we become used to these news feeds. That’s why it was so intriguing to
visit this country and the next one Iran. It’s until you visit the country and
see for yourself what misery those people have there, that you realize how good
you’re off here in Belgium, far far away from all the misery.
Anyhow,
glad we visited this country, we wanted to compare with another country that is
in the same position, at least what seems to be in the same position as we don’t
really make a difference between the countries in the east.
Packed with
all our stuff we took a bus to the boarder of Iran. Finding out where we had to
buy our ticket and making ourselves clear where we wanted to go was not at all
easy!
But once
they understood us, we were ready to go.
Traffic in Iran is horrible, all motorized
vehicles think they have the right to pass first. If you’re by foot, you have
to see for yourself how you get to the other side of the street. Therefore we took a lot of cabs, they are not
at all expensive. Also, they have a system called ‘shared cabs’. It’s like a bus
because the cab follows one route and stops now and then. Transportation was
not at all difficult as you can see.
Another
thing which surprised us was the hospitality of the Iran people. Whenever we
passed, someone would say ‘Hello miss, where from?’, ‘Come to my place, eat
something’. At first we did not want to say yes to this invitation. However, after a
while we met someone nice who kept insisting us to come and have dinner with
him. As we only had eaten kebabs with rice and a lot of bread, we accepted his
invitation and had a delicious meal!
This all
happened yesterday and right now I’m typing our adventures into a WordPad file.
Internet Explorer fell out a couple of times and I save my file every 2
sentences to then copy it onto our blog!
Internet is not hard to find and is
not at all expensive, although the computers run very slowly.
Well, I’m
all out of things to tell you! Tomorrow we’re leaving for the capital Teheran!
Bye!
Julie Hamerlinck
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