Its purpose was to visit Iran’s other vegetation status and natural resources specially forests.
We have already heard some thing about it, but its final approval surprised us. In this trip we crossed the middle of Iran toward south and reached coast line of Persian Gulf, then went to the west and finally backed to the home in the north (path shown in the map). During this 9 days trip we saw many different scenes, humid north forests, high mountains, steppes, sand desert, Persian Gulf seashore, mangrove ecosystem, western oak forest, old cities, historical places like persepolis and many other things.
I have taken many photographs that you can see some of them here.
Our campus, faculty of forestry and
wood technology, the start of our trip
University bus, the vehicle which took
us to the farthermost places ever I have been .
Highland of the Elburz mountain range
(an alpine ecosystems)
Mountain road in the Elburz mountain range toward the south
A wild tulip in the Elburz
South of the Elburs,
The end of the forest and
start of semi arid & arid areas
Exploring in Kavir!
A desert flower bloomed
a mosque in the middle of desert which serves passengers
Camel trace
A pistachio tree, once there were significant forests of this species in Iran's center.
Eventually we have reached Bandar Abbas at night, after several days and hours of driving.
The day after we went to Gano mountain dozen of kilometers in north of Bandar Abbas, a protected area in which many rare and valuable animal and plant species live.
At the Gano mount there was a site belonging to Iran Department of Environment in which some injured animals were kept. This is an Iranian deer (Gazella dorcas).
In the 2nd day of our presence in Bandar Abbas we went to Bandare Khamir, a small town and port in west of Bandar Abbas to visit some mangrove forest.
Toward mangrove forest!
We also have taken some soil samples from mangrove in order to analyze them in our university lab.
The last night in Bandar Abbas before leave it for Shiraz (5th day of our tour)
Shiraz, Hafiz Tomb, one of Iran's most famous poets (6th day of our tour)
Persepolis, an Iranian ancient city near shiraz
This province has several good forests (mostly oak forest)
Our last destination was province of Kohkiluye & Buyer Ahmad (would better to call K & B) and its capital Yasooj, a green province where mostly covered with forests (some species like oak, acer, amygdalus and ...).
This forests are under intense grazing and human activities and finding a natural regeneration is not easy, this is a natural seedling.
That was the end of our travel and we will back home after about 9 days. Thank God.
