NASA, WATCH OUT, they are coming!

This is the cover of main Iranian National Newspapers which published today.

After few years hard working, Iranian Aeronautics and Space Administration (IASA)managed to launch the first rocket into space to mark the opening of its first space center under the name of Kavoshgar on Monday, 4th Feb 2008 at 12:25pm.

Few could not believe, but then many others were happy and proud of this first success program.

Apparently IASA plans to launch the Omid Satellite, a Remote-Sensing Satellites in June 2008.

www.space-travel.com/reports/Iran_opens_its_first_...

www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=41713&sectionid=3510...

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NASA

Very cool piece of history that you have captured here!
Make sure you buy one of those papers too!

@ mikeock
Thank you for your comment.
I forgot to buy one, instead I watched that event on the TV, Ytube, and on-line.

Overlooking the Gogad Caravansary

This is a small section of huge place of Gogad Caravansary located in Mahallat in the province of Esfehun Nesfe Jahan.

A 'caravan' in Persian means a group of travelers or merchants banded together and organized for mutual assistance and defense while traveling through unsettled or hostile country. Caravan trade is associated with the history of Iran and the Middle East.
It is evident that all trade from one fertile area to another in this region had to be organized from the first, since long distances of desert trail separated settled parts and since local governments could not guarantee protection against tribes eager to loot and pillage. Such wares as jewels, spices, perfumes, dyes, metals, rare woods, ivory, oils, and textiles (chiefly silk) are associated with the trade. Camels were the main catties from Egypt and Iran to Mesopotamia and throughout the Arabian Peninsula. When you inquire the age of a caravansary in modern Iran, you are generally told that it dates from the time of Shah Abbas. This is a deceptive generalization and a term applied indiscriminately to all caravansaries built between the late 16th-19th centuries AD.

At present this beautiful historical place is rented to a private Iranian car company. The car company manage this place by converting it to a hotel.

Gogad Caravansary & One Arch

This is one arch of many arches at the edge of each towers of Gogad Caravansary located in Mahallat in the province of Esfehun Nesfe Jahan.

A 'caravan' in Persian means a group of travelers or merchants banded together and organized for mutual assistance and defense while traveling through unsettled or hostile country. Caravan trade is associated with the history of Iran and the Middle East.
It is evident that all trade from one fertile area to another in this region had to be organized from the first, since long distances of desert trail separated settled parts and since local governments could not guarantee protection against tribes eager to loot and pillage. Such wares as jewels, spices, perfumes, dyes, metals, rare woods, ivory, oils, and textiles (chiefly silk) are associated with the trade. Camels were the main catties from Egypt and Iran to Mesopotamia and throughout the Arabian Peninsula. When you inquire the age of a caravansary in modern Iran, you are generally told that it dates from the time of Shah Abbas. This is a deceptive generalization and a term applied indiscriminately to all caravansaries built between the late 16th-19th centuries AD.

At present this beautiful historical place is rented to a private Iranian car company. The car company manage this place by converting it to a hotel.

I am still a baby ....

I am still a baby, hold me tight.
Show me your love by giving me good feed of young fresh vegetables and hays.

Even when I look at this baby goat now, I feel I would love to hold him again and say how much I missed him in that trip to the playground of Ashayer-e Bakhteyari.

www.ephotozine.com/photo/800977

"Are YOU a Terrorist?"

"Would you tells us if you are a terrorist?" that man asked that poor woman on street just because she observed her Hejob, or Islamic head scarf!
I guess these days where ever 'you' go you are under suspicious UNLESS 'you' stay at home !

"FEAR" of New Terrorism !?

www.usefilm.com/image/1076828.html

If I was a terrorist, I wouldn't dress myself like this... ;o)

Eclipse of Moon

Gogad Caravansary - Thru a cross window

This is a small section of huge place of Gogad Caravansary located in Mahallat in the province of Esfehun Nesfe Jahan.

A 'caravan' in Persian means a group of travelers or merchants banded together and organized for mutual assistance and defense while traveling through unsettled or hostile country. Caravan trade is associated with the history of Iran and the Middle East.
It is evident that all trade from one fertile area to another in this region had to be organized from the first, since long distances of desert trail separated settled parts and since local governments could not guarantee protection against tribes eager to loot and pillage. Such wares as jewels, spices, perfumes, dyes, metals, rare woods, ivory, oils, and textiles (chiefly silk) are associated with the trade. Camels were the main catties from Egypt and Iran to Mesopotamia and throughout the Arabian Peninsula. When you inquire the age of a caravansary in modern Iran, you are generally told that it dates from the time of Shah Abbas. This is a deceptive generalization and a term applied indiscriminately to all caravansaries built between the late 16th- 19th centuries AD.

At present this beautiful historical place is rented to a private Iranian car company. The car company manage this place by converting it to a hotel.

www.ephotozine.com/photo/799580

The Story of Gogad Caravansary

This is a small section of huge place of Gogad Caravansary located in Mahallat in the province of Esfehun Nesfe Jahan.

A 'caravan' in Persian means a group of travelers or merchants banded together and organized for mutual assistance and defense while traveling through unsettled or hostile country. Caravan trade is associated with the history of Iran and the Middle East.
It is evident that all trade from one fertile area to another in this region had to be organized from the first, since long distances of desert trail separated settled parts and since local governments could not guarantee protection against tribes eager to loot and pillage. Such wares as jewels, spices, perfumes, dyes, metals, rare woods, ivory, oils, and textiles (chiefly silk) are associated with the trade. Camels were the main catties from Egypt and Iran to Mesopotamia and throughout the Arabian Peninsula. When you inquire the age of a caravansary in modern Iran, you are generally told that it dates from the time of Shah Abbas. This is a deceptive generalization and a term applied indiscriminately to all caravansaries built between the late 16th- 19th centuries AD.

At present this beautiful historical place is rented to a private Iranian car company. The car company manage this place by converting it to a hotel.

There is also the choice of not posting it to the group. Right?

@ jvgphoto
What do you mean by saying:"There is also the choice of not posting it to the group. Right?"

Kombizz,

I am sorry that I have offended you. I am finished discussing your work.

Good luck to you,
Jon

it's a very beautiful place, i think that to show the huge size of it a low down shot would perhaps be more interesting

@ photoaholic
Thank you.
If you read my answer to jvgphoto (2nd from the top) you would understand my situation better.

The Message !!!

I took this image from a rural area near to famous
Ghar-e Alisadr cave in Hamadan, Iran.
Although all of the Iranian rural people can NOT speak or read any foreign languages, i.e. English Language, I saw that English message on that wall.
I wonder what was the purpose of such a message where nobody can understand what it says!!