As a matter of fact we already put some pictures of Isfahan, but we still want to add a couple of words about the city.
Isfahan is a city with a population of 1.5 million, laying at the middle of Iran at 1500 meters above sea level which makes its climate bearable despite its being so south. All Iranians told us (even the ones we met in Turkey) that we have to come to Isfahan because it's a very cool place. If we consider it we were not disappointed at all): Isfahan was our favorite city in Iran.
If you zoom on the map of the city, it seems as it had a decent sized river just like the Seine in London for example. Well, the reality is far from it:
The sight reminded me of Valencia, Spain, with the slight difference that in Valencia they dried their river intentionally, to prevent floods and to make a big park in its place. Well here it's just dried out, some grass grows here and there but it's mostly just sand with a few people wandering around in the river bed and that's about it.
Another picture:
The bridges are very beautiful though, and the city has a simple city plan, easy to find your way (in the 3 days we spent there we could easily get around in the central area), quite clean and people are cool. And we met the most foreigners here, we even saw more than 10 simultaneously! :)
Street food, as everywhere in Iran, was awful, but we still found some interesting things, such as the triangular stuff filled with spicy mashed potato or something called "samosa":
Then we met this guy in the Internet café who was sitting by me and started asking where we were from and the usual, inviting us over after a short talk. He said he was supposed to work but he can get the afternoon free and go to his place for lunch. We agreed quite quickly as he seemed a nice guy so we spent the afternoon together. He lives in a very nice flat with a surprisingly big living room with his mother, his younger sister and some other people of which it wasn't clear for me who lives there and who doesn't, and he also brought over his bride and a few other relatives, so we ended up pretty many pretty fast:
They prepared lots of delicious food, including that "very traditional Iranian" strange green stuff that killed our stomachs the other time, so we skipped that one, apologizing heavily.
After leaving the family we met the bunch of people we already mentioned in the gallery of our friend Miha, hung out together the whole evening, and then we left with the guys to Shiraz.
