Silk Road: Iron curtain Photo

Photographer’s Note

Travels on the Silk Road:
The Aras river flows presumably from the Garden of Eden in today's Turkey (the Genesis chapter is not very explicit about geography) and forms a phantastic colorful canyon of 200 km length. It marks the border of the former Soviet Union with Iran (see the barbed wire). There is a closed military road on the Iran side and a derelict railway track on the Nakhichevan/Azerbaijan and Armenian side. As innocent bicyclists we got a permission to use the military road to Jolfa/Iran!
Enjoy.

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farzadini (53) 2006-12-21 18:07

iranian has a note from one of the greatest poet "HAFIZ", it says about ARAS:
"ey saba gar bogzari bar sahele roode aras, boose zan bar khake an vadi o meshkin kon nafas"
for many iranian thought. Aras is a very nice river. and it's related to a holy old story of "Ali mohamad Bab" that had step across the river :)