So we are ready to move again from Maseulah and it's the morning of my birthday. Helen had a present for me to open (a lovely purse) then we packed up and headed off to the truck. I arrived to find a seat on the truck decorated with balloons which was nice and then as the others arrived I was given lovely gifts from the others ranging from an anklet, packet of salt and vinegar crisps, chocolate, a pocket knife we then stopped for lunch in a town where Libby boug...

So we arrive in Maseulah after a very eventful truck day as we had headed to the Caspian sea but had a minor crash on the way (not our fault another nosey driver looking at us) which ended up taking about 4 hours all in all as the driver decided it was our fault even though it clearly wasn't and when you're a westerner in this country like Iran they all think your loaded and just take you for everything they can. So we get to Maseulah and it was so busy as it's ...

So our next stop is Babek castle and we bush camped down the bottom of the mountain we were to leave the next morning by 8 am to have time to climb to the top. Some decide to head off as early as 6am but Steph, Becca, Chris, Seamus and I waited until 8 then headed up with Mohamed our guide. We started walking and in the heat it is pretty hard going, it's not really got a path but you follow a general route so when we get to the view point and Mohamed asked us ...

So we picked up Mohamed our guide throughout our time in Iran and even though we got through the boarder well within our estimated time we ended up bush camping instead of going to our hostel for the first night. But the next morning we were up and there early doors so we still got the full day to explore a little. We went for a walk to the bizarre were almost all of us bought a new headscarf as we found we didn't need such a harsh scarf and the ones we had bough...

Dougie biscout is our last stay before we head to Iran, as it was very cheap to upgrade me and the girls got a room (which had also been upgraded since the group last stayed there!!) Just so we could have a bed for the night which is always good. Me and Libby went down to the owners travel office in the town where he kindly let us print our documents for leaving the group in Iran as we weren't sure whether we would have access or not to a printer in Iran. We al...