Agriculture in Kerman area
Kerman is a surprising land when it comes to agriculture. To prove this, it is enough to know that the distance from the hottest spot on the earth (Lut Desert) to one of the coldest spots in Iran (Lalezar) is only 150 kilmeters less than two hours!!
Almost all types for corns grow in the area. South of Kerman (Jiroft, Kahnuj, Ghaleganj) produce a diversity of vegetables throughout the year. Every day, you can get fresh tomatoes, cucumber, egg plant, etc, in the market.
The agricultural products in Kerman area are dates, pistachio, oranges, water melons, melons, all types of vegetables, apples, quinces, peaches, grapes, pomegranates, apricots, almonds, figs, many types of nuts, walnuts, ceder, henna, garlic, cumin and many types of medicinal herbs.
Pistachio, dates, oranges and garlic are the main agricultural products that are exported to different parts of the world. However, best types of pistachios grow in Rafsanjan, dates in Bam, henna and garlic in Shahdad.
Diario di viagio
They talked to each other and a few hours later called their group like this. The four kind nice Italians were fully in agreement during the 2 day tour to Kerman, Mahan, Rayen and Kaluts in Lut Desert. 
4 different personalities but always close and friendly. While Ivan was very much into photography,
Nicoletta was more into enjoying the new landscapes and places. The time before and after sunset and sunrise of Kaluts was so incredible that Francesca and Nicoletta tried to sink into silence and surprise the stunning landscape offered.
Ivan was the nice friendly photographer for every one. Veronica was courageous and and strong. Trekking on the earth in Kaluts was not easy with bare feet for Francesca!
The tour also visited the colorful mountains and they enjoyed the carpet weaving workshop on the way to Rayen. Ivan and Veronica visited towers of silence on the hills near Kerman while Francesca and Nicoletta preferred to stay in Yas Guesthouse and rest. Saluti a tutti.
Top traditional eatable souvenir of Kerman
Ghavoot or as locals say “Ghovvatoo” is exclusively a traditional eatable souvenir of Kerman which dates back to the long history of the region. The terms are interchangeably carrying the same meaning, energy and nutrition. It is served at any time of the day or night as the best snack. Locals directly put the powder into their mouth or solve it in hot or cold water and drink it. However, the main target group of the users are parturients, students and physically or mentally sick and weak individuals.
Culturally and traditionally, people of Kerman area make it stylishly and homemade through a long process to prepare it for the woman who is waiting a baby. A few weeks before a pregnant woman is delivered, the family, usually her mother, takes action to collect a variety of seeds of different useful plants which are considered as nutritious and medicinal. The seeds and other ingredients include something like opium poppy, coffee, coconut, After cleaning, washing and roasting them, sugar is added and the mixture is milled into powder. The product is then smells nice and has a special color. However, since various seeds are involved, different colors are produced. Normally, light and dark brown, cream and light green dominate.
No doubt that Ghovoot is beyond nutritional value. The phenolic content and antioxidant activity has been proved in laboratories. If you want to follow more about detailed facts, click here.
Some of the seeds used to make Ghavoot are as follows:
Coffee, opium poppy, purslane, coriander, cotton, barley, lettuce, cardamom, nigella, sunflower, sesame, myrtle, hemp, black pepper, pistachio, coconut, cumin
Based on the component seeds in Ghavoot, it is believed that there are very positive effects like getting rid of insomnia, pacifying, helping nerving system, removing boredom, reducing pains during menstruation period, boosting sex power, energizing, and supporting memory.
Ghavoot is kept in textile bag or glass containers. Today, people make over 10 kilos and keep it in the refrigerator to prevent decay. visitors can see plenty of Ghavoot in the shops of grand bazaar of Kerman. If you want to buy as souvenir, take care to buy one with all information on as a label in order not to be stopped at borders!
Yas Guesthouse
For any tourist and visitor of Kerman, it is important to stay somewhere clean, comfortable, less occupied and with a reasonable price. Yas Guesthouse is an option that offers all options:
There are only 4 spacious clean twin rooms
There is a very large living room equipped with nice armchairs of carpet cushions, 3 carpets on the floor, and 6 special artistic hand woven traditional beautiful carpet cushions. So, a guest can sit on the armchairs or lean against the cushions and feel relaxed.
The well-equipped kitchen is large. The guests have easy access to any cool drink they like. They can have different hot drinks as well. Even they can have their favorite traditional Iranian dish cooked. Vegetarians may best enjoy it!
Shower and bathroom are clean. There are Iranian traditional bathroom with a normal one which most tourists are used to. They are inside the building.
The rooftop!!
Tourists get surprised at the view they can watch from the roof. They can watch old historical buildings, oldest large mosque of Malik, two ancient castles on the hills and some more. They can enjoy drinking, chatting, eating and even sleeping if they like.
Yas Guesthouse is located on Piroozi street between banks of Refah and Saderat. Just one minute of walking through the alley the other side of the street leads to the old grand bazaar at the end of which Zoroastrian fire temple is located the other side of Moshtagh square. 5 minutes walking leads to Ganjalikhan historical buildings complex and Vakil tea house. Therefore, tourists never need any transportation to visit city attractions.
Since tourists have the opportunity of meeting and sharing experiences, there is the possibility for organizing shared tours to different destinations. This is something many tourists are interested in. Normally, tourists ask for tours to the following places in the area of Kerman: :
Kaluts, egg hils, salty river, Nebka park, Keshit Canyon, lava field of Gandomberian, Yalan sand dunes, Shazde Garden, Shah Nematolah Wali mausoleum, Rayen castle, Bam ancient adobe city, Maymand ancient troglodyte dwellings, colorful mountains
The price of the room is currently 20 Euros. For reservation, just send an email to:
yasguesthouse@gmail.com
Adress: north alley 1, Piroozi street, between banks of Saderat and Refah, Kerman, Iran
You can get more information by just clicking Yas Guesthouse.
Also, for the location, search Yas Guesthouse on Google Map.
Nice Italian Girls
Valentina and Serena, two brave girls from Italy, visited Kerman area for 3 days. By brave, it means that while many Europeans are afraid of traveling to the hottest spot of the earth, these two did it!
June 5 in the afternoon, they stepped into the Kaluts area on an off-road tour by a 4*4 pickup. They left shoes aside and trekked on the hot sand around with bare feet.
From two full days being in Lut desert, they passed one day in Keshit where the amazing canyon is an enjoyable destination not only as an amazing destination but also funny trekking in water and even swimming and diving!
The round big cement cake with candles around at the garden in Keshit village was a big surprise to Valentina because it was her birthday! While Helia, the daughter of the owner of the garden was giving a ride on the 4*4 motorbike to Valentina, others in her absence decorated that strange cake with candles in the dark. When she returned to the garden, she was so excited by hearing the happy birthday song at the garden in the dark with candles burning.
Serena, the master in special jumping in the air (!!), was always kind, smiling and helpful.
Irankalut wishes them a happy prosperous life.
Spain, Ireland & Andora
Eva from Spain, Zita Irish and Tomas Andorran joined a tour to Kaluts, Rayen and Mahan. Unfortunately, Eva did not speak English and Tomas had to translate into Spanish. The chemistry teacher, Zita, had the chance of benefiting more from visiting Kaluts area because the forming elements are related to the science of chemistry. Eva quite cool, Zita smiling but Tomas super active. He knew no risk and run up the stiff rocky hills on the way to Rayen. He wanted to take pictures on top of hills from colorful mountains where he fell and damaged his only pants.
They ended the tour by eating dinner (Dolmeh, an Iranian traditional healthy dish, at a cozy traditional restaurant) in Kerman the second day.
Two Martins!!
Martin from Belgium and Martin from Germany together with Luana and Diew were welcomed in Lut Desert by a sudden exciting sand storm. Driving with gear 3 even was not possible and finally the visibility of the road reduced to 0. They got out of the car to experience how strong and touching the storm was. Taking selfi pictures was the funniest thing ever which they did. Visiting Kaluts was postponed to the next morning.
One of the beautiful egg hills is exactly like a submarine. Since two martins were together, it was called after their names as ‘Martins submarine’.
Fransois, Cathy & Sonia
What a memorable tour ! All the attractions in Lut Desert were visited. Cathy got surprised when we lighted candles and started singing the happy birthday song. On the way back from Yalan dunes, what a nice thing happened. Francois learned all numbers in Persian even a nine-digit number but after a while the car went deep into sand and every one tried to help taking it out. Cathy finally sat at the role and pulled back while we were pushing. Our plates were really helpful. Sonia kept on laughing all the time that transferred lots of energy to the group. On the off road to Keshit, the tour was chanting french songs and it helped them to enjoy the long sandy off-road trip. Thank you for your happy moods.
Caravansarai
In the past, travelers on routes needed a place to rest and feed their animals (mainly horses and camels). So, a building with special rooms, water pool and water reservoir were constructed.
Based on the area, mountain or desert, the materials used for construction were either stone or mud and mud brick while wood was also used in both.
There were three types of caravansarai: on the route, near the city walls and inside the city. The first was in deserts or in the mountains just on the routes. The second was for caravan heavy loads so that the representative of the group entered the city, talked to the merchants, concluded contracts or deals and then the loads were little by little carried into the city shops.
We must remember that the cities, especially deserted cities had a wall around in the past, just as Kerman had. So, the passages inside such cities were not wide enough for a caravan with lots of animals carrying heavy loads to pass through. therefore, they had to wait just in a place out of the city.
The caravansarais inside the city were used to accommodate merchants, talks and deals, and lots of other exchanges.
In Kerman area, there are two types of caravansarais left and tourists can visit them. As Kerman was a transit spot on the ancient silk route, caravans from China, India and Europe stopped here, did their negotiations and deals and finally some left for China and India, some for Persian Gulf and some for north-west and Europe.
There are plenty of inside-city caravansarais in Kerman some of them still active and named after the type of merchants met for deals, for example, Hindu caravansarai near Ganjali Khan historical complex.
Also, there are two caravansarais on the desert routs in lut desert which are really spectacular. We must not forget that Zeinodin caravansarai on the road to Yazd was built under the order of Zeinodin Ganjali Khan the Safavid ruler of Kerman. Kerman was very large in the past and its borders reached Persian Gulf, India and Isfahan.
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Visiting the two deserted caravansarais is included in our tours of kalut.
Fathabad Garden
There, 16 km North West of Kerman, lies a spectacular garden near Ekhtiarabad village which is called Fathabad Garden. According to historians, this pattern has been used in construction of Shazdeh Garden in Mahan which is a world heritage toady.
The start of the garden dates back to around the year 1255 (Hijri-Shamsi) or 1876 AD, in Qajar era. Fathabad is a memorial garden for “Fazl Ali Khan Biglarbeygi” who was the ruler of Kerman. That is why it is also called Biglarbeygi Garden. Fathabad Qanat water passed through fathabad Garden in the past, and it was so refreshing and lovely.
Fathabad Garden with its old and valuable history, for a long time was abandoned and damaged and most of the trees dried up. Todya, the railroad passes by the garden and planes taking of also pass over this beautiful landscape.
By effeorts of “ Kerman Moghoofat Foundation and development “ under the auspices of the cultural heritage, restoration and reconstruction of the garden began in 2011.
The garden is now a Tourisim Destination and all tourists are welcomed to visit this garden.
for those who are into photography, the night view is really amazing.
