Half of the World − Esfahan, Part 2 of 2

Satureday, 02nd Okotber 2010, in the bus on the way from Esfahan to Yazd

On thursday I was invited by a carpet seller for tea to his shop where I met German student and fellow nurse Thomas from Münster. Together we explored the Armenian quarter Jolfa. I visited one of the Armenian churches in Maku where the Armenians originally lived. But as they where fine artisans one of the Shahs brought them to the village of Jolfa where they still live.

In the evening we wnet to the Si-o-seh bridge having a tea in one of the teahouses and met a group of young students. They had great fun looking up dirty words in Thomas’ Farsi-German dictionary. In general the young men are quite pubertal. I guess that happens when you seperate them from the girls.
On the Naqsh-e Jahan square a man was asking us questions about christianity using a “cheat sheet”. Unfortunately his english was rather rudimentary so it was quite hard to explain him how fasting works and what the holy trinity is.
And as an atheist I found it hard to explain some of his rather good questions. “So you believe God had marriage and had a child?”

As it is not really comfortable to write in the bus with my elbow in my neighbours ribcage (he doesn’t mind though he’s sleeping like a baby) I’ll call it a day and just present you the pictures:

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Kinda like Vienna

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In the Armenian quarter

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Armenian

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In the teahouse

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These coats of arms are a tradition in my hometown Freiburg. Shops have these signs in the pavement to indicate what kind of shop it is (brezel for a bakery, a jewel for a jewellery). This was presented to Esfahan by Freiburg because the cities are twinned.

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And of course I had to visit Freiburg Street

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Although they messed up the transscript 🙂