Ella's Adventures Blog
The desert city that made ice with no fridge
You visit Yazd for the skyline, all those tall slotted towers rising from the rooftops of a mud brick city on the edge of the desert, and they really are...
The desert city that made ice with no fridge
You visit Yazd for the skyline, all those tall slotted towers rising from the rooftops of a mud brick city on the edge of the desert, and they really are...
The day a Roman emperor was led away by the hand
Here is a Naqsh-e Rustam detail, and it is not the part that first grabs you. You arrive for the tombs, four enormous crosses cut high into a cliff a...
The day a Roman emperor was led away by the hand
Here is a Naqsh-e Rustam detail, and it is not the part that first grabs you. You arrive for the tombs, four enormous crosses cut high into a cliff a...
The tower a shah built just to see the view
The Golestan Palace detail that not everyone knows as they visit for the dazzle, the mirrored halls and the tilework so bright it almost sings, and it really is one...
The tower a shah built just to see the view
The Golestan Palace detail that not everyone knows as they visit for the dazzle, the mirrored halls and the tilework so bright it almost sings, and it really is one...
The empire that carved itself as a host, not a ...
Here is the Persepolis detail that it is hiding in plain sight on the staircase everyone walks straight past. You come for the fallen columns and the great winged bulls,...
The empire that carved itself as a host, not a ...
Here is the Persepolis detail that it is hiding in plain sight on the staircase everyone walks straight past. You come for the fallen columns and the great winged bulls,...
The world's oldest goalposts, hiding in plain s...
Standing in plain site and almost everyone misses it. You come to Isfahan for the square itself, that enormous turquoise expanse with the Shah Mosque at one end and the...
The world's oldest goalposts, hiding in plain s...
Standing in plain site and almost everyone misses it. You come to Isfahan for the square itself, that enormous turquoise expanse with the Shah Mosque at one end and the...
The waterfall a curse kept secret
Here's the Gocta story that might be my favourite in this whole series. This waterfall, one of the tallest in the world at 771 metres, stayed completely off the map...
The waterfall a curse kept secret
Here's the Gocta story that might be my favourite in this whole series. This waterfall, one of the tallest in the world at 771 metres, stayed completely off the map...