45) THURSDAY,
11 AUGUST 1977 : 220KMS. - BANDAR-E-PAHLAVI
From ARDABIL we drove via ASTARA, a seaside town and bordering USSR by the largest freshwater in the world, lake Caspian. The road was meandering up in the mountains and dusty. On another side of the road is RUSSIA territory, apparently with barbed wire fences and border checkpoints.
From ARDABIL we drove via ASTARA, a seaside town and bordering USSR by the largest freshwater in the world, lake Caspian. The road was meandering up in the mountains and dusty. On another side of the road is RUSSIA territory, apparently with barbed wire fences and border checkpoints.
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| Astara - Photo : wikipedia.org / Bing images search |
We continued from ASTARA steadily to the south via BURSARA LISSAR until we
reached the seaside town BANDAR-R-PAHLAVI (BANDAR-ANZALI) to camp overnight. The
beach was rather dirty (not as clean as it should).
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| Anzali - Photo : wikipedia.org / Bing images search |
There were many people
swimming in the sea, mostly men, women and children were less. It is typical for
Muslim society and eastern countries that men are most likely to take part in outdoors
recreation or in public than women.
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| FROM ARDABIL (A) TO BANDAR-E-PAHLAVI OR ANZALI (B) |
CASPIAN SEA FROM ORBIT : SOURCE - WIKIPEDIA.ORG
The
Caspian Sea (Azerbaijani: Xəzər dənizi, Persian: دریای مازندران /دریای
خزر, Russian: Каспийское море, Kazakh: Каспий теңізі, Turkmen: Hazar
deňizi) is the largest enclosed inland body of water on Earth by area,
variously classed as the world's largest lake or a full-fledged sea. The
sea has a surface area of 371,000 km2 (143,200 sq mi) (not including
Garabogazköl Aylagy) and a volume of 78,200 km3 (18,800 cu mi). It is in
an endorheic basin (it has no outflows) and is bounded to the northwest
by Russia, to the west by Azerbaijan, to the south by Iran, to the
southeast by Turkmenistan, and to the northeast by Kazakhstan.
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