16 Days - 15 nights
The Archaeology of Empire
OFFBasic information
- Duration 16 Days - 15 nights
- Route Tehran → Takht-e Soleyman → Hamadan → Kermanshah → Ahvaz → Shiraz → Yazd → Esfahan → Kashan → Tehran
- Start Tehran
- Finish Tehran
- Meals included Breakfast daily
- Accommodation 4★ hotels
- Transport Private air-conditioned car with driver
- Internet Free WiFi
Tour difficulty Easy
Map
Trip highlights
- The National Museum of Iran first, so every site you visit has a story before it has a name.
- Explore Tepe Sialk in Kashan, one of Iran's earliest settlements.
- Walk through Ecbatana in Hamedan, the ancient Median capital where the foundations of imperial Persia first took shape.
- Explore Susa and Chogha Zanbil, where the Elamite civilization flourished centuries before the rise of the Persian Empire.
- Visit Pasargadae and tomb of Cyrus the Great.
- Walk through Persepolis and Bisotun, discovering how architecture, inscriptions and reliefs reveal the ideology of the Achaemenid Empire.
- Discover Bishapur, where Persian innovation and Roman influence meet in one remarkable archaeological landscape.
- Follow the continuous story of Persian civilization—from prehistoric to contemporary—through the places where history was written in stone.
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