around the world with ipuenktchen

oldieoma had the idea to go to the carpet bazar and lucky traveltoys accompanied them!! oh what a special world is the carpet bazar... men were relaxing on hills of carpets.. but if someone shows his interest to see the carpets they get busy like strong sportsmen!!!!! because many carpets are so heavy!



and they have to open each one so the client could have a glance on and showing the next one... and finally perhaps the client got tired, buying nothing and go to the next shop - and same procedure....



and here and there men are sitting and working on the carpets for different purposes..



as you know perhaps the tabriz bazar is the by far largest covered bazar of the world, and as tabriz is famous for its carpets, the part of bazar reserved for carpet is quite large, so we had a lot to see.. and we only saw a very small part of it!!!!!!



and finally ipue took photos of the entrances of the *saray* and *timtsheh* we had seen the most interesting carpets and would like to come again, so we will be sure to refind the right entrances!!!!!

jippieeeeeeeh - the great day today - WE HAD OUR FIRST PC MEETING IN TABRIZ - and international for sure as we had our highlight OLDIEOMA with us!!!!!!

there had been the following participiants:

AT - OLDIEOMA
IR - ipuenktchen
IR - lili_6789
IR - misslondon

(and as a silent member yashila_81, who wrote a few messages and signed a few cards at home....
ANITA_2004, DIRTYFEET, SATELLOO had been absent..)

this was the location:



and from the traveltoys had been participated:

- FLAT STANLEY
- EMMA
- POSSY & CROSSY
- KISS ME

and here they are - proud & happy:



had you ever seen an islamic beer??



could you guess, how many cards they had written??





http://forum.postcrossing.com/viewthread.php?tid=45365

there is a lottery and you can still join in - untill OOMA will be again in the air back to VIENNA!!!?!?



EDIT: and the next day ooma and ipue went to the main post office to get a special cancellation for most of the cards!!!!!! uuuuuuuuffffff - the man who has the stamp got soooooooo tired of sooooooooo many cards....... :-)))))))

on the road: sofyan


marand - main circle


marand - cemetary entrance (garden of paradise)


marand cemetary - martyr tombs


marand cemetary


at ipue's friend's - yummy watermelon


ohhh - what's this??


back home to tabriz


view from autobahn over tabriz


tabriz - the new bridge