In Iran, there used to be over a thousand caravanserais. About every 40 km along the old caravan routes, you could find these places, where you could eat, sleep and drink and where was a place to put your camel.Just like a motel. Today, there are only 128 left, and most of them are in ruins. We visited one of them, in the middle of the desert a few hundred meters from the road from Yazd to Kerman.

This caravanserai had recently been restored in its old glory. We could imagine easily it had once been a very lively place, because the day before we had lunch in a restaurant that was reconstructed from a ruined caravanserai.

On the airplane to Tehran there was an Iranian lady sitting next to me. She asked if I was one of those tourist who would expect Iran was full of camels. I did my homework, so I was not. She told me anyway that I wouldn't see any camels at all. But we did see them and funny enough it was only a few 100 meters from the caravanserai. I hope one day the lady will see this page and remember me.