The leg to Tehran was pretty exhausting ... 650 km, with the final rush on the ring road to enter the city, with traffic and imaginative race between cars, whose only target is to be the first in the only available space, pedestrians attempting to cross multiple lanes boulevards, crazy scooters, old trucks spewing clouds of naphtha powder.... and a temperature of 46 degrees at 4pm.  At half way we stopped in Soltaniyeh, to visit the imposing mausoleum Öljaitü, whose dome, finished in 1312, is the oldest double dome in the world.

We left Tehran early in the morning to leave the infernal traffic behind, and we moved to the south of the Caspian Sea, to Gorgan city. We have a free afternoon to rest and begin to wash some clothes, the road is still long, but we ended up with the long days driving for more than 500 km.... Today we drove through pretty smooth roads in the mountains, above 2000 meters, certainly less monotonous and soporific.

The only real danger are the drivers that flank dangerously us to take a picture of us on our bikes!

Tomorrow we get closer to the border with Turkmenistan that we’ll cross Tuesday morning.