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This was our second time to the Howraman Valley. In 2007 we hired a Paykan with driver (car like this), but now we went with our own car. [Howraman Valley / Iran]
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The Howraman Valley is located in Iranian Kurdistan. Before you reach the valley, you pass some old villages like Dezli. [Howraman Valley / Iran]
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After the village Dezli, the road climbs higher and higher until it reaches a pass with a military checkpost where the Howraman Valley starts. [Howraman Valley / Iran]
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We visited the Howraman Valley in 2014 during the winter time. If you are really unlucky, you can't visit the valley due to snow. But we were Lucky ... we could go. [Howraman Valley / Iran]
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Climbing higher and higher on the way to the Howraman Valley in Iranian Kurdistan [Howraman Valley / Iran]
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Time to enjoy the spectacular views [Howraman Valley / Iran]
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The Iranian government is keeping the main roads in good condition, even in the winter time [Howraman Valley / Iran]
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The Paykan is a dying car in Iran, due to its pollution. But in the more remote parts of Iran, like in Kurdistan, you can still find many vehicles of this Iranian make [Howraman Valley / Iran]
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In the background, you see a road that going further up into the mountains, but that road wasn't cleared of snow yet. But we had to go left, into the Howraman Valley [Howraman Valley / Iran]
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And this is it. the northern part of the Howraman Valley. The upper part still covered in snow [Howraman Valley / Iran]
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The first part of the road through the Howraman Valley (when enterring from the north), is still plastered. But that will change later [Howraman Valley / Iran]
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The Toyota Land Cruiser 40-series are still available in high numbers in the Howraman Valley. The car was also made during the Iran-Iraq war in the 1980s, where it served as army car. Many of them serve now as car for farmers [Howraman Valley / Iran]
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We enter the main village of the Howraman Valley, Howraman-at-Takht [Howraman Valley / Iran]
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Many men in the Howraman Valley still wear the very curious jackets [Howraman Valley / Iran]
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The hillside village of Howraman-at-Takht [Howraman Valley / Iran]
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Our Toyota Land Cruiser BJ45 and a local brother. The 40-series Land Cruisers in Iran are always equiped with a petrol engine [Howraman Valley / Iran]
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View on Howraman-at-Takht, the main village of the Howraman Valley [Howraman Valley / Iran]
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Howraman-at-Takht village and its beutiful location [Howraman Valley / Iran]
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The Howraman Valley, looking northwards, with a the right side the village Howraman-at-Takht [Howraman Valley / Iran]
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A 40-series Land Cruiser at work [Howraman Valley / Iran]
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Serpetine road in the Howraman Valley [Howraman Valley / Iran]
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Its best to explore the Howraman Valley by 4 WD car, but is also possible by a normal car like the Paykan [Howraman Valley / Iran]
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Spectacular road [Howraman Valley / Iran]
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On the way down, deeper and deeper into the Howraman Valley [Howraman Valley / Iran]
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And again ... another 40-series Land Cruiser [Howraman Valley / Iran]
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On the way to Belbar village [Howraman Valley / Iran]
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The place where the good road stops and the bad (unpaved road) begins [Howraman Valley / Iran]
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You need a full day to drive the Howraman Valley. We started in Marivan, and ended the drive in Paveh, and small town with facilities, outside the valley [Howraman Valley / Iran]
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Belbar villlage [Howraman Valley / Iran]
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Kurdish man in traditional trousers, avoids a collision with a cow [Howraman Valley / Iran]
