Yazd | یزد Following Isfahan, I took a bus 175 miles accross the desert to Yazd, a city with a history going back 3000 years, and which was on the Silk Road. The city has its heart in the Old Town, which hosts one of the largest networks of qanats in the world, and many of the houses are cooled by the wind towers for which the town is known. Outside of town there is the Zorostrian Towers of Silence, where, up until the 1960s, the Zorostrians laid their dead.

Yazd | یزد

Following Isfahan, I took a bus 175 miles accross the desert to Yazd, a city with a history going back 3000 years, and which was on the Silk Road.

The city has its heart in the Old Town, which hosts one of the largest networks of qanats in the world, and many of the houses are cooled by the wind towers for which the town is known.

Outside of town there is the Zorostrian Towers of Silence, where, up until the 1960s, the Zorostrians laid their dead.

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