2023-05-23. Hamedan - Bisuton

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

So they open the Ibn Sina (Avicenna) mausoleum and the museum at 2/4 of 9 I'm already at the entrance and I visit the museum where what I find most interesting is the book "Canon of Medicine" written by the philosopher and doctor which was a point of reference for medical students for at least 6 centuries.

I continue along the pedestrian promenade that I already did yesterday afternoon but today at 9 it was very quiet until Imam Khomeini square where there are some buildings all around that in their moment of glory should shine but now they are half abandoned, Pity.
Go down further down to the next roundabout where there is the entrance to Hegmataneh Hill which was the capital of Persia in the time of the Parthians more than 3,000 years ago.

Returning to the hotel I go through an exchange office, €100 for 53,500,000 IRR

A few km from Hamedan are the Ganjnameh inscriptions, two texts that Darius first and his son Xerxes later had carved into the rock in cuneiform characters with 3 languages: Old Persian, Elamite and Babylonian about 500 years BC.

The road climbs up to 3,000 meters and in a pass there is a truck unloading a large flock of sheep, it seems that the shepherds are taking them to the top of the mountains where the grass is greener.

Further down, in Kandagar, I visit the temple of Anahita, "an Indo-Iranian cosmological figure, revered as the deity of waters, associated with fertility, healing and wisdom. According to sacred texts, Aredvi Sura Anahita is not only a divinity, but also the birth of the river of the world. The cosmological legend says that all the waters of the world created by Ahura Mazda originate in the source Aredvi Sura Anahita, which gives prosperity to all countries." (taken from Wikipedia)

The road passes through a plain of fields of cereals, potatoes and fruit trees surrounded by low hills and higher mountains until I reach Bisotun, where I stop to see more inscriptions ordered to be made by Darius but unfortunately there is a scaffolding right in front and no you can see almost nothing.
The statue of Hercules leaning and holding a bowl is curious.

As I leave I see a grove of pines and I approach it to see if it will be a good place to camp. There are a couple of cars parked with people having a picnic, some with music, but when it gets dark everyone leaves.