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    Posted: 29-May-2008 at 06:09

Those who have read about Shah Abbas the Great, probably know Mazichal of Abbas-abad, lets see some photos:



Edited by Cyrus Shahmiri - 02-Aug-2009 at 12:59
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Awesome pictures!Smile
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Indeed :)
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Wonderful, beautiful - it's like something out of a dream.
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  Quote Guests Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 29-May-2008 at 09:34

Pffft thats nothing. When I lived in Skardu (the worlds highest inhabited town) in our Northern Areas Territory the clouds were often 3 or 4000 feet below us. And these areas are not half as beautiful as they look, you can barely breath half the time.
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Hello Sparten
 
Skardu is only 2500 m high. I could think of at least 20 different cities much bigger and much higher than it beginning with La Paz and ending with Bogota even if you count deosai within the boundries of Skardu. But to be honest, from the pics I saw many places in Pakistan especially in the northern areas are extremely beautiful but I only can judge when I go there if I do at all Cry.
 
 
 
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  Quote Guests Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 29-May-2008 at 11:33

Skardu Valley is 2612 m high. Skardu garrison where I lived was at 14,000 feet.
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Damn beautiful... all my life I lived by the sea. This height probably would change me into a total different man :)
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Originally posted by Sparten

Pffft thats nothing. When I lived in Skardu (the worlds highest inhabited town) in our Northern Areas Territory the clouds were often 3 or 4000 feet below us. And these areas are not half as beautiful as they look, you can barely breath half the time.

Mazichal has no claim to be the worlds highest inhabited town or other things but below those clouds is the Caspian sea which is one of the lowest points in the world. Anyway I can promise that you can breath easily there! Wink
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Hello Sparten

Wow sparten, 4500 m above sea level! I spent a summer here in Saudi Arabia above 2800m and I had an awful time trying to breath. How bad were the winters there if you have spent one because I heard that even in the monsoon those places get alot of snow.
 
By the way Cyrus, I was wondering does the province of Ilam has similar summer places because several Abbasid caliphs used to spend summer there in a place near the city of Ilam itself.
 
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By the way Cyrus, I was wondering does the province of Ilam has similar summer places because several Abbasid caliphs used to spend summer there in a place near the city of Ilam itself.

Do you mean the old city of Darreh-Shahr? But archaeologists have not any mosque there and it is believed that Arabs destroyed this Sassanid city.


Ruin of an ancient Sassanid city near Darreh-Shahr in Ilam province (southwest of Iran)
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Really panoramic stuff. Nic pics Cyrus.
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  Quote Guests Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 29-May-2008 at 18:14
Originally posted by Al Jassas

Hello Sparten

Wow sparten, 4500 m above sea level! I spent a summer here in Saudi Arabia above 2800m and I had an awful time trying to breath. How bad were the winters there if you have spent one because I heard that even in the monsoon those places get alot of snow.
 
By the way Cyrus, I was wondering does the province of Ilam has similar summer places because several Abbasid caliphs used to spend summer there in a place near the city of Ilam itself.
 
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Never there in the winters thank god, we were given accomodation in Peshawar for that, though my dad had to stay on obviously. It would snow on the 1st of september and remain frozen for till april. Summer days were pretty warm, warm enough for shorts, it would get chilly after sunset and be freezing by bedtime.
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wonderful, I live next to the sea, but I would like to live near that sea of clouds 
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Breathtaking and beautiful.  Thanks for sharing those photos !
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Spectacular pictures!  Bravo!
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Thanks, that is great but not wonderful, the wonderful thing is that you see this scene in the heart of the desert!


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beyond magnificent.
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