2023-05-22. Qazvin - Hamedan

Iran 2023 (Iran - Iraqi Kurdistan - Turkey - Greece - Albania - Italy)

After a good breakfast at the hotel I go for a walk around the city, there is not much to see, a couple of mosques and a museum still closed.
I enter a small and beautiful mosque but when I leave my sandals are gone. I go out into the yard shouting "Cagum God!" to show my problem and discomfort (I'm barefoot), a person from site management comes and I explain to him, a policeman comes in and I also explain to him. They talk to each other, I guess let's see how it can be fixed, the man from the mosque leaves and immediately comes back with shower flip flops and says to accompany him to the street and we go a little further down to a shoe store but it's all bullshit and I say I prefer sandals. Let's go to another one that does have sandals similar to mine, I put them on and he pays for it I guess with mosque funds.

I shoot in the direction of Hamedan but stop for a coffee in a small apple field on the highway.

Today I drive a lot on a boring highway and make frequent stops: one to tighten the chain and check the bike, another to have a chicken leg, rice, zam zam and chai for lunch for 1,500,000 Rial and he gives me a bottle of water
There is a waiter who keeps saying that he is an Arab (Persians are not very friendly with Arabs), he wants to take selfies with me and makes strange gestures, what looks like the jefe or manager of the restaurant is making signs that mean he is drunk .

All day we are between 1,500 and 2,000 meters and the further south, closer to Hamedan the hills are green with grass and in the end the landscape becomes a plain of fields of cereals, potatoes, etc.
Arriving in Hamedan you see other mountains of approximately 3,500 meters with snow caps at the top.

At one of the stops I looked for a hotel on Google Maps and I went to Hotel Mar Mar, which has mixed reviews, some very good and others bad.
They ask me for 7,000,000 Rials with breakfast and parking.

I take a shower and go for a walk around the city, I'm near the Ibn Sina (Avicenna) mausoleum, they ask for a million for the visit but the museum is closed, maybe I'll go there tomorrow morning. I walk through the park next door and go towards Imam Khomeini Square through the pedestrian promenade. There are many people at 6 pm, and many women in the black hijab without showing any hair or in the all-black chador as if they were nuns.

Before arriving at the hotel I buy some cookies and a chocolate cream for after the fruit that I have to eat for dinner or it will be gone.