Monday, April 30, 2018

Rose Water Distillation Ceremony (Golabgiri) in Iran


Festivals are surely one important composition of Iran’s long history. These customs and festivals present people with vivid images of ancient Iranian life. In Iranian calendar, each late April to early May is the time to celebrate the traditional Iranian festival of Golab Giri.  This festival shows the traditional process of producing rosewater which has been held for over thousand years ago in Kashan, Iran. The harvesting of the «Rosaceous flower», the specific type of Iranian rose from which the water is extracted, dates back to the 7th millennium BCE. These light pink roses called Mohammadi flower named after Muslim prophet, Mohammad (PBUH). Here's the reason its water, golab, is known as the holy perfume. Every year, many people trip to Iran to visit this amazing ceremony closely. You can join Kashan day tour or Iran premium tours and enjoy visiting this unique festival.

Rose Water Distillation Ceremony (Golabgiri) in Iran







Saturday, April 28, 2018

Enjoy the Spectacular Beauty of Iran Deserts


The desert’s specific characteristics, the beauty of its landscapes, the images of purity, serenity, tranquility, and the magic of its panoramas make deserts very attractive areas for tourism.  Indeed, in all their diversity, deserts offer a wide variety of possible experiences and are increasingly attracting a large number of travelers especially from Europe continent where its inhabitants can explore a desert rarely.
If you are interested in desert tourism, Uppersia suggests you to come and enjoy the spectacular beauty of one of the vast and amazing deserts in the world, Iran deserts. Let our local guide introduce you to the wonders of the desert flora and fauna as well as giving you a genuine appreciation of the delicate balance of life in the desert ecosystem. As you see in the photo, the group is enjoying a day trip through the Mesr Desert in Isfahan province.  If you travel the desert you can see and feel a real different adventure that you’ve never felt before. Don’t miss it, it’s really worth the effort.


The desert’s specific characteristics, the beauty of its landscapes, the images of purity, serenity, tranquility, and the magic of its panoramas make deserts very attractive areas for tourism.
 A group is enjoying a day trip through the Mesr Desert in Isfahan province

Thursday, April 26, 2018

Persian Carpet


Although designed and woven by anonymous people, often by nomads, carpets are the most captivating and exciting artworks which the Orient has given to the whole world. The word "Farsh", of Arabic origin, meaning "to spread", is related to the primitive function of the mats; to be spread inside the tents of the nomads. The first carpets were made with bamboos and stems of plants which grew in the swamps, later that fabric was covered with animal skins. The next step was to look for a more comfortable and insulating cover for the floor, so a new type of mat was created by interlacing the wool of animals. That was the first step to reach the art of weaving.

Carpet weaving is an art which exists in Iran since ancient times – according to some theories long before the Achaemenids, probably 3000 years BC -. The first evidence is the famous Pazyryk carpet, discovered in 1949 in a grave in the Altai Mountains, in southern Siberia. The tomb in which Pazyryk was found, in good condition due to the ice which had sheltered it for centuries, contained a series of objects from China, the Black Sea and Persia. Pazyryk carpet is 200 by 183 cm, and has 360,000 knots / m². In the opinion of scientists, this carpet was made 500 years before our era in the west or south of Persia.

From the Pazyryk carpet, to the present day, the art of carpet weaving has evolved a lot, parallel to the changes in Iranian history. The milestones which have marked the upward growth of the manufacture of carpets, in quality and quantity, are quite coincident with times of the development of the native Persian cultures, especially under the Safavid dynasty. The Mongol and Timurid invaders re-launched the carpet production with more sumptuous models and exceptional mastery. Since then, Persian carpets have been considered as luxury objects throughout the world. The Persian designs and techniques were copied in China, India, Pakistan, Turkey and some regions of Eastern Europe. There are various types of carpets in Iran. The differences between the carpets are based first on the quality of the material used, then on the number of knots, the design of the pattern, the colors used, the warp and the weft.

Carpet weaving is an art which exists in Iran since ancient times – according to some theories long before the Achaemenids, probably 3000 years BC
Persian Carpet