Carved in Stone: Troglodyte Village Kandovan, Iran
A flashback to my trip to Iran last year. Probably the best time of my life, though I never realized that it was. We don't appreciate the good things before we lose them. Anyway, the village:
Tucked away in the northwest corner of Iran is the quaint and mysterious thirteenth century village of Kandovan. Located in Iran's East Azerbaijan Province, Kandovan is 60 km south of the provincial capital Tabriz in Osku county.
What makes Kandovan village so unique is that many of its homes have been made in caves located in cone-shaped, naturally formed compressed volcanic ash formations that make the landscape look like a gigantic termite colony. This method of dwelling makes the residents modern-age cave dwellers or troglodytes. (Troglodyte means cave dweller: somebody living in a cave, especially somebody who belonged to a prehistoric cave-dwelling community. Troglodyte also means somebody living in seclusion.)
This Italian guy was a couchsurfer in Tabriz, just like me. In fact, we got hosted by the same man and it was him who brought us in Kandovan for a visit.
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For me, what you see in Troglodyte Village Kandovan, is a jewel of architecture; I did not imagine that there were such houses made in caves. I was curious as to how these houses would be internally and looked for some photos on the internet that will show them and this is part of the result:
Interior of a traditional home
And this is a brief description found on the internet of people who have managed to enter these homes:
"But its greatest attraction, which makes it a unique place in the world, is the conical shape of the houses: wide at the base and rounded or sharp at the top ... even today, more than 160 families live. .. Small wooden doors embedded in the stone preserve the privacy of the inhabitants, friendly and humble people ... We knock on a door because curiosity can and we want to see what a house looks like inside. Then, at the knocking of the door we add: Tea, please? And as if by magic a woman of about eighty, hunched over and dressed in mourning, opens the door and invites us in. We bend our heads because of the fact that the stone ceiling seems to be low, but we can easily get in and the interior of the house appears as a single space, spacious, warm and cozy ... The rooms do not have any kind of luxury. magic of the experience consists of sleeping in a stone house, of ceilings rounded, wide and irregular walls, knowing that more than 6,000 years ago that the first humans inhabited the place. "
(http://viajes.elmundo.es/2016/03/28/asia/1459169237.html)
A view of the villa that I think is very nice:
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After Morocco I wouldn't mind visiting Middle Eastern country! Well why not?
Must be similar, I reckon
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