ALAMUT VALLEY

INDIAN SUMMERS

PATH TO ALAMUT VALLEY As I was getting back to Tehran: I detoured through the Alamut Valley, that was the historical theater of

the ismaili Hashishin militia (« assassins ) in the Middle age.

EN ROUTE TO RAJAI DASHT: Alamut Valley is my favourite detour…..

RICE PADDY FIELDS IN SIYAH -DASHT RIVER VALLEY road from Rajai Dasht to Razvian

RAZVIAN VILLAGE : THE TOWN CENTER !

FROM RAZVIAN VILLAGE : SLOPES TO LAMBSAR CASTLE

RUINED LAMBSAR CASTLE OVER SIYAH-DASHT RIVER VALLEY

LAMBSAR CASTLE : WATCHTOWER & VILLAGE RAZVIAN

RAZVIAN : VILLAGE HIR

SURROUNDINGS OF RAJAI DASHT

SURROUNDINGS OF MO’ALLEM KALAYEH ; background East: Kuh-e Taleghan

GHAZOR KHAN CASTLE, ALAMUT VALLEY, QAZVIN DISTRICT This reconstruction of the remote fort is the legendary Headquarter of the Ismaeli Assasins of Hasan SABAH. Background : Kuh-e Taleghan

GHAZOR KHAN CASTLE, ALAMUT VALLEY, QAZVIN DISTRICT aerial view of the crest

GHAZOR KHAN CASTLE, ALAMUT CASTLE, ACC. POPULAR IMAGINATION

GHAZOR KHAN CASTLE, ALAMUT VALLEY, QAZVIN DISTRICT photo : VForum, alamasy

GHAZOR KHAN VILLAGE, QAZVIN DISTRICT – the village as shot from the Alamut castle

ARCHIVE: an alternate castle in the valley

EVAN LAKE, ALAMUT VALLEY.