around the world with ipuenktchen

my very best congratulations to all Iranians all over the world for
a very happy Norouz and spring for you and your beloved ones!



http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nouruz

Zitat aus dem Originaltext der Vereinten Nationen:
"The General Assembly this afternoon recognized the International Day of Nowruz, a spring festival of Persian origin,[...] Nowruz, which means new day, is celebrated on 21 March, the day of the vernal equinox, by more than 300 million people worldwide as the beginning of the new year [...]"
Offizielle Erklärung der Vereinten Nationen aus dem jahre 2010, als NOROUZ in die Liste des Menschheitskulturerbes aufgenommen wurde!

"Die Generalversammlung erkannte an diesem Nachmittag den Internationalen Noruz-Tag an, ein Frühjahrsfest persischen Ursprungs, [...] Noruz, welches Neuer Tag bedeutet, wird am 21. März, dem Tag der Frühlings-Tagundnachtgleiche, von mehr als 300 Millionen Menschen weltweit als der Beginn des neuen Jahres gefeiert [..

(btw - this collage is handmade by my dear friend KOBRA from feierabend-community, regio-group hannover - BRAVO to her!! she's pretty 12 - 13 years older than me but so clever learned all these nice pc-possibilities!!!)

it seems we are making our norouz-holidays step by step in advance!! hehe... the kids proposed to go again for 2 days this time west and so we did. it was again a great weather and so we enjoyed to be on the road. we went via the new bridge over urmia-lake to urumieh - btw - the 2nd line was opened in the meantime!! the first one opened in nov. 2oo8 -, naghade, piranshahr..

http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urmiasee


the border in front, ohhh... surrounded of snowy mountains.. we were looking for a place to eat, not easy in such a small town to eat smth.





finally we found a kebab shop and then we went straight to the one & only hotel they had there! two stars - oh my god... it was clean, ok, but honestly, the stars for what purpose pls??? so we slept very early. but on the other side I got up around 3 AM.. because of my catchcould......

for the other morning they announced to have breakfast at 8.15... we arrived later and there wasn't any stuff..... they told us they had no bread.. ok, no prob, we had bread ourselves, but we weren't in the mood to ask more and so we went out - no breakfast everywhere. finally we reached the kebab shop from yesterday eve.. and he was so compassionate and ordered for the poor touris some omelett from one of his friends and they made even fresh bread for us!!



In the meantime ipue got really thrilled about so many kurdish people.. honestly it IS a kurdish town.. she could spent there days and days by taking photos of all the people traditionell clothed, specially the men...... finally she brought some *paparazzi-pics* with her... *smile*



http://www.fotocommunity.com/pc/pc/mypics/538553/display/24175102

after breakfast we went to bazar!! a famous bazar with lots of foreign stuff, who knows from where..!!?!? and often for quite reasonable prices.. so we bought this and that.. and at 12 we left!!!!!!!!



we had the idea to go to *tepe hasanlou*!!! a famous excavation site from 6.ooo years BC ago!! this is the place where a lot of the great golden stuff you could see in IR museums, specially in tehran archaeology museum, was found!!! it was nice we had seen there unexpectly!!!


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teppe_Hasanlu


as there wasn't any place for a reasonable meal, we eat some boiled eggs with bread, fruits, nuts and didn't lost time for looking for a restaurant. and so we arrived at 6 PM at home!!!!!*T*I*R*E*D*!!!!!!

a nice custom from ardabil via our younger daughter-in-law
arrived at our home as a lucky charm for new year!! :-)