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Troy Nahumko is an award-winning author based in Caceres, Spain. His recent work focuses on travels around the Mediterranean, from Tangier to Istanbul. As a writer and photographer he has contributed to newspapers and media such as Lonely Planet, The Globe and Mail, The Sydney Morning Herald, The Toronto Star, Counterpunch,The Irish World, The Straits Times, The Calgary Herald, Khaleej Times, DW-World, Rabble and El Pais. He also writes a bi-weekly op-ed column 'Camino a Ítaca' for the Spanish newspaper HOY. His book, Stories Left in Stone, Trails and Traces in Cáceres, Spain is published by the University of Alberta Press. As an ESL materials writer he has worked with publishers such as Macmillan and CUP.

Monday, May 12, 2014

The Cubist Maze of Masouleh, Iran


Take a drive from the shores of the world's biggest lake called a sea, through rice paddies that wouldn't be out of place in Southeast Asia, and end up in a Central Asian village in mist covered mountains? It's not teleportation, but the trip to Masouleh might be the closest thing. Up from the Caspian, a cubist maze clings to green mountainside, the roofs of each house becoming the terrace of the next. Narrow lanes shared by people and water as it rushes downhill to the sea. Hotel it or try one of the homestays that abound along orange-tobacco scented alleys and in the evening enjoy the battle between the sounds of rushing water and the gurgle of hookah pipes.

#hiking #architecture #smalltown #mountains #driving #coast #view #village #roadtrip #getaway #sea #hookah #seaside #offthebeatenpath #terrace #home #remote #tobacco #mountaintown #steep #ricepaddies #centralasia #localculture #homestays #caspiansea #inlandsea

Originally published on Trazzler

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