Comments on: Persepolis

By: maringi

maringi — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 02:40:51 +0000

I am so jealous.

By: David Farrar

David Farrar — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 22:12:06 +0000

Yes many young women wear jeans.

By: BarbaraB

BarbaraB — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 21:29:13 +0000

Persepolis is one of the wonders of the world; its a fantastic place to visit, awesome in the truest sense of the world! I lived in Teheran (partner was working as an architect) for nearly a year in 1975 when the Shah was in power. It was an interesting time indeed and a privilege to have seen the treasures and architecture – the Blue Mosque in Isfahan was the single most inspiring building I have ever seen.

By: marty mars

marty mars — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 19:47:01 +0000

I don’t agree with your politics much but I’m loving the travel photos – thanks

By: Murray

Murray — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 19:28:13 +0000

Jeff the real problem is that Alexander was simply batshit insane. A genius, but a random one. He might give you a kingdom on a whim or drive a spear through your chest over a drunken argument. Hell he went into Persia with no idea what he was going to do and no idea when he was going to go home. He wrecked the supurb army his father had built and they mutinied twice.

There’s just no way to say he did or didn’t do something because it was his nature or a rational decision. His nature was chaotic.

By: jks

jks — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 09:31:58 +0000

Is it common in Iran to see women wearing jeans? Overall apart from the hijab Layla’s clothing looks relatively western.

By: Spoff

Spoff — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 09:13:18 +0000

it was just a translation issue.

Y’mean like:

“Imam ghoft een rezhim-e ishghalgar-e qods bayad az safheh-ye ruzgar mahv shavad.”

By: PaulL

PaulL — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 05:44:13 +0000

I’m concerned. Kiwiblog seems to have turned into a travelogue. Even worse, it is giving me aspirations of travelling to weird and wonderful places, where previously I’d been intending to go to NYC, and then to Spain for my next overseas jaunt. I’ve always said I wasn’t that interested in going further off the beaten track…….but I think I’m changing my mind. Someone should be paying you commission.

By: Razork

Razork — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 04:41:22 +0000

David, I just want to say that all of these travel pics and your comments on them are fantastic.
I am enjoying it very much and now considering a trip that previously I wouldn’t have even imagined for a moment.

thanks.

By: Sean

Sean — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 04:19:30 +0000

O well, not many people got to Angkor Wat during Pol Pot’s time. In retrospect, that may have been a good thing as far as the preservation of the monuments is concerned.

By: Jeff83

Jeff83 — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 03:36:43 +0000

Haha Murray made me laugh.

On that point as a point of interest not a classical buff but isnt their a hypothosis that the fire was deliberate as revenge for the previous burning of the Acropolis of Athens? Debatable but a theory?

These pictures are making me so envious / looking forward to the day I get to travel to Turkey / the middle east (not to mention Africa). So much history.

By: Chicken Little

Chicken Little — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 03:34:27 +0000

Ok, it’s official, I am so jealous now.

One day.

By: Murray

Murray — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 02:30:22 +0000

Absolute slander!

Alexander did NOT destroy Persepolis. It was the fire he had started that is responsible.