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Video of the Day - IranAir 727 makes emergency landing
Oct 25th, 2011 at 4:00PM:
Just one week ago on October 18th, an IranAir Boeing 727 landed at Tehran's Mehrabad airport without the use of its front landing gear, after the bay of the nose gear failed to open on approach.
The crew performed a landing without the nose gear on runway 29L and came to a stand still on both the main gear and the nose of the aircraft. The flight, traveling from Moscow to Iran, held ...
Five ways to get to Kabul, Afghanistan
Nov 2nd, 2010 at 8:00AM: Does your definition of "adventure travel" involve a safety briefing and equipment to keep you safe? If so, there's a hard-core version of the concept that you've been missing. Chase the ultimate thrill in Afghanistan, and your world will never be the same. In case you haven't heard, there's a war going on, not to mention plenty of corruption. You will have an adventure to talk about when if you ...Iranian and British national museums face off over artifact
Feb 7th, 2010 at 1:00PM: Iran's national museum has cut off ties with the British Museum because of a controversy over a 2,500 year-old cuneiform tablet called the Cyrus cylinder. One of the most important artifacts from Persian civilization, the cylinder was supposed to be loaned to Iran but the loan has been delayed. Iran says the delay is politically motivated, but the British Museum says they need to compare the ...Destinations feature highly in top Twitter trends of 2009
Dec 17th, 2009 at 10:00AM:
It wasn't explicit, but the top Twitter trends of 2009 have a hint of travel built into them. Sure, it was the elections in Iran that put made "Tehran" and "Iran" among the top 10 news items trending this year, and politics pushed "Gaza" up there, as well. And, we all remember the H1N1 Swine Flu epidemic, which has been memorialized in the form of "Swine Flu" and "#swineflu" on the microblogging ...Coming Attractions: Iran
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Dec 2nd, 2009 at 12:30PM: My first night in Tehran, reeling from a 55 hour bus ride from Istanbul, I staggered into the closest restaurant I could find for some dinner. The waiter was very curious to see me and we chatted a bit. I quickly found my mediocre Arabic was useless in this Farsi-speaking nation and we got by in what limited English he could muster. After dinner I went up to the register to pay and the cashier ...Who are the friendliest people in the world? Iranians
Feb 23rd, 2009 at 3:00PM: Who have you found to be the friendliest people in the world? According to Will Hide, the answer is Iranians. He and his female friend Annette toured Iran for 10 days where they met up with experiences I'd call delicious. Delicious food, delicious scenery, delicious things to see, and the type of hospitality where people invite you to tea all the live-long day.
As Hide says, everywhere they went ...Rick Steves in Iran
Jul 17th, 2008 at 10:00AM: Rick Steves is the kind of guy who can tell you where to find the best Chianti in Tuscany. No one would label him an intrepid travel journalist... Until now. Steves, known as the host of PBS shows about traveling in Europe, recently went somewhere that few people in his line of work have gone before, Iran. He spent 10 days traveling through the country earlier this summer, camera crew in tow. ...The Price of Gas Around the World
Jun 26th, 2007 at 4:09PM:
The next time you pull into the station for a fill-up, keep this in mind before you curse the prices: People elsewhere have it a lot worse than we do in America (and we tend to gripe about it the most, it seems!). Take Asia for instance -- Hong Kong averages a whopping $6.30 per gallon, with Seoul, South Korea, not too far behind. Europe also pays well above what we do in America. London, ...Iran Photo Project on Flickr
May 31st, 2007 at 11:18PM:
There's an interesting photo project going on at Flickr called the iRAN Project. I came across it a month or so ago and bookmarked for a later mention. It appears to have been set up by a Madhi Ayat as a way for photographers in Iran to show day- to-day life as they capture it with a their cameras. The latest photos were posted on May 19, 2007. This one is not Ayat's, but in his pool of ...Photo of the Day (1/10/07)
Jan 10th, 2007 at 12:11PM: As we find ourselves slowly getting through the middle of the work week I decided to pick this shot out of Iran taken by La Nina Melon, during her trip early last year of the two men working. Not sure if the shot was taken on Chahar shanbe or Wednesday during her Tehran travels or if the men are even finding any pain in having to set up shop and work like the rest of the world. Lucky for La Nina ...
