Yazd

Yazd was my favourite place in Iran. The old city is truly magnificent. Around the incredible Great Mosque with its soaring minarets are hundreds of little alleyways spreading out in all directions where you get hopelessly lost and where you involuntarily bump into old mansions, mosques and other historical buildings.
Yazd is also famous for its badgirs, windtowers who were/are being used to cool a house or building; the airconditioning of the ancient Persian world.

Praying at the Great Mosque in the old city.
My next and last stop in Iran was Mashad, Iran's holiest city where Iman Reza is buried and where day and night tens of thousands of pilgrims pay their respects to this martyr of islam. I wasn't allowed to photograph inside.