Iran Safari Tour - 9 Days

We will embark on this journey from Tehran and it takes about 6 hours to get to Touran National Park. Note that you can join us from any other cities in Iran. We will spend the night in one of the ecolodges in Biyarjomand.

Having spent the last night in one of the ecolodges of Turan National Park, we embark on our exciting adventure after breakfast. (Note that you can join us in this adventure trip from any of the cities in Iran, no matter where.) Moving towards the sites where we would track down Asiatic cheetahs, it is most likely to see the Jebeer Gazelles. We’ll have our lunch in the heart of nature. We would later explore the districts of Abbas Abad and Tarud on our 4WD vehicle to search for the endemic bird of Iran, pleske’s ground jay. We might also see the beige-colored Persian onagers among the scenic areas of these wild arid lands.

At the end of the day, we go back to the ecolodge and rest after having a nice dish of traditional Persian food.

We’ll get ready and head towards the Golestan National Park. We’ll take the road of Khoshyeylaq pass that twists and turns among the natural landscapes. We will reach our destination in about 3 hours.

As soon as we had our breakfast in the nice fresh air, we’ll notice the beautiful sceneries surrounding us. We will then drive towards Mirza Baylou plains where we can look through our binoculars and watch the goitered gazelles. We will then roam towards the Almeh region to look for the great herds of urial sheep and Persian ibex. Then, after a long hike, we will search for brown bears and wild boars. As the night draws in, we set up a camp and a fire to drink mountain tea and eat our dinner under the starry expanse of the sky.

Waking up to see the first red lights of the sun casting upon the greenery, we will start another thrilling day in Golestan National Park. We will then proceed towards the Tang-e Gol woodlands to observe the red deer and roe deer hiding among the dense canopies spreading over the fields. In the course of our adventurous observation, we might see the footprints and feces of Persian leopards and brown bears. During our adventure, we’ll have lunch. Note that we try to set up a varied menu for our daily meals. We both have animal and vegetable foods and above all, we have the traditional taste of Iranian food included in our trip itinerary. Finally, as the night comes, we head back to our ecolodge.

On this day, we will head towards our third destination, Tandoureh National Park and we’ll be there after about five hours of driving. Our adventure will reach its climax in this rather mountainous area which is famous to be the safe haven for the biggest leopards of the world i.e. the Persian leopard. This place is the best place to find the footprints of Persian leopards and experience the excitement of tracking them down.

During the first day we roam in this national park, we try to enjoy its unique and beautiful natural sceneries and look for urial sheep, wild goats, bearded vultures, and wild cats. We’ll probably experience this adventure while we’re going on a mildly strenuous hiking through the heights of these wild frontiers. As the night comes, we get in our 4WD vehicles and go on watching over the rocks or behind the bushes in search of Persian leopards with our light projectors breaking the darkness of the night. The search itself is a great pleasure and thriller regardless of seeing the target. Finally, we will go back to the ecolodge of the park to rest and have a meal.

On the last day of our adventure, we keep discovering the beauties of Tandoureh National Park as we’re still in search of the Persian leopards. One interesting part of the adventure comes as we proceed and track down the footprints and feces of these beautiful species and check on the photos taken by camera traps in their way. Peeking through these cameras and noticing part of these creatures’ behavior in these wild frontiers is one of the memorable experiences of this trip.

As our adventure comes to its end, we head back towards the capital city of Tehran.