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Just wanted to say hello! Enjoy your day!
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This was the view from our guest house, high up in the Zagros Mountains of NW Iran.
As another spring day drew to a close, my eyes were drawn to the play of light and long shadows on the earthy colours and fresh greens of this magnificent, high mountain scenery.
The Zagros Mountains (Kuhha-ye Zagros) are Iran's second largest mountain range. They have a length of 1500 kilometres from western Iran, from Kurdistan at the border with Iraq to the southern parts of the Persian Gulf.
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More of the stunning mountain- and valleyscapes in the Zagros Mountains of NW Iran.
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The village houses are all made of thick mud walls and flat roof tops. Wheat is grown for local consumption. After the harvest, the straw, an agricultural by-product, the dry stalks of cereal plants, after the grain and chaff have been removed, is usually gathered and stored as haystacks on roof tops. In the winter the sheep are kept in hollowed out rooms under the houses to protect them from wolves. However, as soon as the snows melt (4 m. of snow), the shepherds can be seen roaming the hillsides with their fat-tailed sheep etc.
The villages now have access to electricity and so it is not uncommon to see homes with radios, sateliteTV, internet, lights, washing machines and gas stoves. Although oil heaters provide heat in the winter, the village women still mix animal dung with straw to form patties that are dried in the sun and/or in kilns to be used as fuel for both heating and cooking.
In the uncultivated areas, the slopes are covered with buttercups etc. and various flowering, low-growing thorny shrubs. As the summer heat increases the greens turn brown and it is hard to imagine it could ever look green again. But nature knows best and each spring the cycle begins again. Of course, irrigation allows apple orchards, vegetable gardens and fodder crops to thrive.
Mining is important and provides many jobs for the village men and for the town of Takab, 30 km away.
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Enjoy your Sunday and thanks for dropping by.
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We were invited to a spring Kurdish wedding in Shirmard village. What a riot of colour and finery! The music and the singer / dee jay were intoxicating and the dancing a mesmerizing experience. Men, women and children all hold hands and form a huge circle and move in one direction on the village green with the magnificent Zagros Mountains in the background. The rhythm is all in the feet and the shoulders. The leader waves a handkerchief and inspires the circle of dancers to pick up the pace.
Kurdish women wear very colourful dresses, shawls, cumberbands and head scarves. The Turkish and Persian women in the village mainly dress in black chadors and do not dance in mixed company.
Here's wishing you a wonderful new week. Thanks, as always, for your much appreciated visit.
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