Albània - Grècia - Turquia - Iran (Mashhad - Biasabad-e Now Sazi)

Motorbike trip from Catalonia to Iran passing through Italy, Albania, Greece, Turkey and Iran.

08-10-2022 - It's 6 in the morning and I'm woken up by the noise of someone passing through my room, Vali has given me a room that was supposed to be private in principle but it's a kind of living room old and place of passage.
I get up and go outside to go to the Holy Shrine where I arrive before 7, today I just take my phone, search and move on.
The first square is huge, like 6 times the square of Vic surrounded by the typical portals all covered with mosaics making geometric shapes and borders. The floor of the square is all white, black and gray marble combined and also making geometric figures. All around shelves with books of the Koran. Somewhere piles of carpets neatly laid and stacked for when there is a mass prayer. On each side the double minarets and the corresponding mosques and prayer rooms. Through the loudspeakers the sound of chants. I cross the square diagonally and through an arcade I enter another square and in the background you can see a third, and at the end another, ...
In fact, surrounding the sanctuary are all connected squares that can accommodate thousands of people. In the middle of the squares a small garden and water dispensers with plastic cups. Everything is super clean, not a paper anywhere.
The entire complex is open 24 hours a day and there are at least 6 or 7 entry points with corresponding guards who catch you. You can also see some men and women with colored plumes, like dusters, who are guides or informers.
In some places there are carpets on the floor for kneeling and praying that obviously cannot be stepped on without taking your shoes off.
I have made a full circle and now enter a small square where there is a golden dome with the mausoleum of Imam Reza. There are many carpets and umbrellas and more people gather there but it seems that they have opening hours to enter the mausoleum space.
I go back to Vali's Homestay for breakfast, it was good enough with milk and everything, since before I left I didn't drink it. I pack and leave, a lot of highway, fill up, buy provisions and eat a sandwich on the side of the road.
I pass through Nashtifan to admire the millennial windmills, spectacular.
They also show me a qanat (underground channel that brings water from the mountains) that passes right below, the water is cool and circulates non-stop.
When I leave the town I find the immense plain of the desert, I look for a track to get away from the road and after 2 or 3 kms I see a silhouette that looks like a castle, there are two men and I try to explain to them that I want to sleep there and I they say go to the back of the castle. I set up the tent and soon after they both pass by on a motorcycle, when they see me they approach and start laughing, we chat for a while each to their own and they leave.
I'm so glad I found this site...but there's no phone signal.
A qanat also passes through the castle.
At 6 o'clock in the afternoon it is already pitch black and it is quite windy, we are at 750 meters above sea level.
I will have dinner "Soup de ccido con fideos".