Iran Tourism & Touring

Iran is a southwest Asian country of mountains and deserts. Eastern Iran is dominated by a high plateau, with large salt flats and vast sand deserts. The plateau is surrounded by even higher mountains, including the Zagros to the west and the Elburz to the north. Farming and settlement are largely concentrated in the narrow plains or valleys in the west or north, where there is more rainfall. Iran's huge oil reserves lie in the southwest, along the Persian Gulf.
From 600 BC until 1935, the country was referred to in the West as Persia. On March 21, 1935, Reza Shah Pahlavi issued a The vastness of the Iranian territory, 1.648.195 square kilometers, it has four regular seasons offering panoramas and possibility of excursions.

Iran bathers in north by the waters of the Caspian sea (that it is 28 meters under the level of the sea) and in south on the Persian gulf; in west confines with the highland of the Anatolia and in east it continues toward the steppes of Asia. The Iranian territory, is characterized by two mountainous chains and from a vast desert central zone.

The chain of the Alborzes mountains, in north, that is strethed from east toward west with peaks more than 5 thousand meters height (Damavand summit, in northeast of Tehran reaches the 5671 meters). The chain of the Zagroses mountains, in east, that stretched from north toward south with tops around the 4 thousand meters (Zard Kuh-and Bakhtiari is the tallest peak 4309 meters), they contain the great Iranian highland with the deserts of the Dasht-and-Kavir and of the Dasht-and-Lut from the impressive panorama, and with fertile areas as that of Esfahan, where water is abundant.
There are a greate number of islands in the Persian Gulf such as Qheshm, Kish and Khark.
The territory is rich of oil, gas and mineral resources whilst suppering of water scarcity there are dams and dike: numerous built on the rivers, among which we can name the Karun (920 kms), the Sefid-Rud (795 kms) and the Zaiandeh-Rud (405 kms). which flow inside the territory pouring into the Persian gulf, in the Caspian sea, or in the lakes, (the greatest lakes are the Urumieh, the Neiriz, the Hamun and the Parishan).
To bring water in the great cities, since 2500 years in Persia there has been a technique applied so-called Qanats (underground channels, that work as a sophisticated system) and Iran has exported this technique to the whole Middle East, the North, Africa and Spain. Currently the length of the Qanats reaches the 40.000 kilometers of underground canalizations linked channels.