Travel Guide Kashan, Iran | Things to do in Kashan

KASHAN

Kashan is a beautiful town in Esfahan County. If you think of the stories from a thousand and one nights, Kashan is the perfect city.

the city is located between the cool mountains, destinations for excursions, trekking and home of many pretty villages, and the desert of Maranjab, where you can admire the wonderful sand's desert.
The center offers several historic villas with bizarre architecture, a relaxed and colorful bazaar and historic hotels where you can sleep inside the history.

Main sights:

• Historical Houses: Kashan has several ancient villas, where Safavid and Qajar dinasty use to stay for winter or for holidays. Around Alavi street there are Tabatabai House, one of the biggest, and Borujerdi House, one of the stragest, just to list a few.
  
• Fin Garden: if you like to feel the paradise in this garden you can. Built in the Safavid time Fin garden is full of trees, flowers and water canals, now is a museum you must to see it specialy in spring and summer.
• Maranjab Desert: with a 4x4 car you will discover this beautiful sand desert with dunes and camels, also there is the Namak Lake, the biggest salt lake in all of Iran. We can provide for your overstay night to sleep in a caravanserai in the middle of this desert, or in Matin Abad the firt eco-turism hotel in Iran.
• Abyaneh: this little village in above 2000 metres on the sea level, completly built with red soil is quiet and good for seeing traditional clothes and heard a medioeval Persian.
• More: Natanz, Niasar, Rose Watering's season and other villages.