FOLLOWING IS A REPOST OF MY PERSONAL INSTAGRAM DURING MY SUMMER FAMILY VACATION TO IRAN.

I DID NOT FIND A BETTER MEANS OF SHARING MOMENTS CAPTURED AS THE FOLLOWING INCLUDES VIDEOS AND CAPTIONS AS WELL.

FOLLOWING ARE THUMBNAILS; YOU MAY CLICK OVER THEM FOR FULL VIEW.

IF THUMBNAIL HAS A VIDEO SYMBOL ON ITS TOP-RIGHT CORNER, CLICKING THE THUMBNAIL WILL START A VIDEO. TO STOP THE VIDEO CLICK OVER IT A SECOND TIME.

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UPDATED ON 8/11/17 – A VIDEO OF BIKERS NIGHT OUT ADDED TO THE END OF THE PAGE

PRE-TRIP

Please enjoy the complimentary popcorns while watching the thriller #happystudio

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This is how we do it in #happystudio #architecturalstudio courtesy of @pmfilms

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OUTBOUND

Flying @emirates #airbusa380

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In air #goodiebag #calligraphy

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In air kids essentials

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All about details. Count the stars till you fall asleep. 17hr long haul.

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Best #limodrive warmly awaits your arrival after 20+ hr long journey

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#fullservice warm cups of tea and as always we missed you @aam_london

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Preparing for the next #are exam fun fun fun, yah right

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OUTSKIRT OF THE CAPITAL

 

unfinished side, overdone facade

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Rural urbanism a global concern

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A bite of nature

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Yield patiently

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Road expansion; slicing mountain like butter

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#cozyhut

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@muhammadlila we only had a stopover DXB otherwise would have visited properly. However on the way back the stopover is longer if you be nearby I’ll come in maybe get a Papa Roti

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Abundant roses

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@pmfilms this awaits to be your desk view

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Meditation in nature

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Best way to ruin a gathering

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You vacuous being, why even say something for world to mock you

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Looking forward to breakfast in the morning

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Fruits and nuts trees

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#droplet

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A kind of #mapletree #eh

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Bee chasing

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Who can reject your signs?

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@pmfilms can’t promise this though

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@pmfilms we finished with ice cream topped with this #homemade #redvelvetcake to help with wetting your appetite

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Ski resort main lodge at dawn

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Nature’s call

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Maze of retaining walls

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It’s all #landscapedesign

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#springwater

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Even #monopoly has given up; all in millions range

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FILM CREW ARRIVAL ONTO FAMILY DOCUMENTARY  

@pmfilms awaiting your arrival hope you have enough @lucozade_energy I have Pepsi as substitute, it was cold

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#novotel

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Breakfast-must

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Well done interiors

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Overall felt like a 5 star hotel

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Here’s the last leg of family documentary and what a better way than starting from the graves of the deceased ones. May God bless their soles.

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There’s something about domes that fascinates me. Interestingly it’s a subject in ARE Structural Systems I’m studying

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Arches and domes create magnificent geometries

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Here’s a good sample of Double-Wyeth Construction, the brick wall against the concrete core

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@pmfilms #knockedout all this to capture a #legacy to be cherished.

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Do you see it? The moon setting!

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…after a very fruitful looong day, this picture captures all

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Some 30 years ago!

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Walk of a man contemplating on his past 30+ years

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Would you think you would know your hometown, the street you grew on? Revisit it after 30+ years and you may not be able to find it, recognize it; you look for a sign or a hint to locate the property it once grounded what you used to call home; you may find a mark you once carved on the trunk of a tree!

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Documenting your past, you find the remains of what used to be the best property on the block, where you would role your skateboard to see the best cars role out of the garage…

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Big day tomorrow!

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Prep work

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What an experience #barbaribread only short of traditional stone oven

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Film crew vehicle courtesy of @seyed_hamid_mohseni خيلي بزرگواري كردي انشاءالله شسته شده تحويل مي ديم

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Road side breakfast on the way to ancestry village

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ANCESTRY VILLAGE

Looking over ancestry village #wallnuttrees #plumtrees

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Documenting on #mountainhills

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Some thorny native species @pmfilms please don’t slip they are very pointy thorns

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Ancestry village of 80 families where all are your relatives

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Wondering in the alleys of the village

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Village theme

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Best #lifesize #buildingsection the villager is simply repairing a damaged footing single handed

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This mountain hill village is in a very cold climate and summers pretty much goes through major repairs after tons of heavy snowfalls

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That pinkish cob, mix of clay and straw, turquoise opening, stone trim, and metal sheathing

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Picking a white berry planted by great grandfather

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An epic of the trip. Visiting great grandfather’s summer villa.

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Documenting under the white berry tree

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These sweat juicy white berries were so ripe you touch a branch and you would get covered in berries from head to toe #tasty

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Great grandfather’s villa

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What looks like a black tar is a result of cooking meals on the porch; how? Back then they would collect herd’s drops to make fire for cooking; the smoke collected under the deck created this tar like coating

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This mirror plastered in wall, I assume, was equivalent to today’s makeup table where my great grandfather would comb his hair

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His relation to my great grandfather is same as mine only much older and is now the custodian of this heritage

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Documenting the heritage

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Tea is just what we wanted with dried white berries once planted by great grandfather!

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Overlooking great grand father’s cousin’s, a tourist attraction heritage and most visited property in the village

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Oil burning kettle stove

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Coal iron

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Traditional door lock

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Best #joojehkabab

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#sketchytuesday while on vacation sketching our #filmcrew @pmfilms

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#sketchytuesday while on vacation sketching our driver BBQ #joojehkabab

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The aftermath of having joojeh kabab

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Midday #adhan from the village

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Construction logs

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Roses are red (I don’t know the rest)

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Picking into courtyard

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Pretty much end of a very successful filming day

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This is how they transfer rebars

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Road expansion before ski season

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Improvising; a door is supporting a PVC pipe to reroute runoff water from higher grounds

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After very busy days of filming, we are enjoying local bread and eggs

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ONTO SUPERBIKE RACE TRACK

@seyed_hamid_mohseni افتخار ملي انشاءالله جام أولي رو بياري به سكو. يا علي

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Going to cover @seyed_hamid_mohseni superbike race series 1000cc

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Team AJ Sport Club

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@seyed_hamid_mohseni افتخار ملي

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@seyed_hamid_mohseni افتخار ملي

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@seyed_hamid_mohseni warming up tires

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@seyed_hamid_mohseni افتخار ملي اين هم دل و جيگر موتورشون

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AJ Sport Club team after knocking down one podium

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AJ Sort Club team

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@seyed_hamid_mohseni unwrapping tires

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@seyed_hamid_mohseni افتخار ملي در حال گرفتن انرژني از اميد زندگيش. ماشاءالله داره. اين يعني زندگي نه سكويه اول سواري

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@seyed_hamid_mohseni حال كردم با شربت خاك شيرت

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AJ Sport Club team rolling out their 1000cc bikes

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A very knowledgeable #ducatisti #mechanic with a dream of working for @ducatimotor 3 of his bikes made it to podium today @masoud_kazemimajd

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@seyed_hamid_mohseni #likefatherlikeson

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@seyed_hamid_mohseni at the line up

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Superbike race at Azadi Stadium

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@seyed_hamid_mohseni افتخار ملي

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Not quite the result you deserve, due to a mechanical failure

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@seyed_hamid_mohseni عجب يلي

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Couple ducaties to complement the race

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#burgerland

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Chair frame made of piping. Heavy piece of furniture

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It’s a board game where you need to erect the tallest structure to win. Good practice for ARE Structural System exam

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Last day at the chalet Mother Nature poured down hails and heavy rain

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Last breakfast at the chalet

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Winding roads

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I questioned its design throughout its construction. But now after two years you can see it’s rather high maintenance.

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Some road side art work

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Mountain hill construction. That vertical shaft I assume will link the future garage to apartments above

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If you look closely you’ll see storefront doors opening out to couple-store-drops. Not sure what the intent was, even if you add deck that would cause waterproofing issues.

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What I like about this tower, not sure it was knowingly, the tower doesn’t block the view from the road, yet it has an amazing view over the village beneath. And love that bridge connecting the garages to the tower. Mind this is seating on seismic grounds.

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Some guts

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@pmfilms setting up yet another scene @aliyazdan @aila_y

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This was a typical packing/unpacking per day per scene; 4 times a day pretty much for s whole week; @pmfilms can’t wait to see the end results

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رفتي، بسلامت. خاطره اي شد. خوب جاي قدرداني از خيلي ها هست كه بدون كمكشون اين نيت خيرت به انجام نمي رسيد. كلبه اي كه در اختيارمون گزاشتن در ده با صفاي دربندسر كه ما توالت فرنگيشون را با جوجه كبابهاي محسني بفنا داديم. ماشين شاستي بلند برادر محسني، افتخار ملي ما، كه كمپلت تو اين جاده هاي كوهستاني دربندسر بفنا رفت. دسترسي به اينترنت ٤جي در تمام مدت كه البته اون هم اشتباه نكنم باطريش بفنا رفت. كلا آدم امانت داري هستيم ولي نمي دونم چرا اين همه اتفاق افتاد. خلاصه از همه ممنون و منتظر نتيجه اخر هستيم. @pmfilms @seyed_hamid_mohseni

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قابل توجه “بعضي ها” : اين يك ظرف اسيد هست و اون هم ٥ متر فنر لوله باز كن. عكس فقط بخشي از داستان را به نمايش مي گذارد و معمولا بخشهاي خوبش را و قسمتهاي تلخ را به نمايش نمي گذارد. ما نصف بيشتر اين سفر هر شب و هر صبح در حال باز كردن لوله گرفته شده فاضلاب توالت فرنگي بوديم. كه البته عكسها و فيلمهاي دلخراشي هم گرفتيم كه اينجا جاش نيست. گلاب بروتون. شبها و صبحهاي دربندسر بسيار سرد است. شما فكر كن، صبح از سرما بيدار بشي و بدنت خوشك زده باشه و تنگت هم گرفته باشه بعد بايد كوه پيمايي بكني تا به توالت ايراني برسي. بعد از اينكه سبك شدي حالا زانوهات خشك شده و دست به دامن لوله حمام و لبه سينك نزديك به توالت ميشوي و نصف راه ميفهمي كه الان هست كه حمام و سينك بر روي سرت خراب بشوند و بعد از اين همه سختي از اسمان تگرگ مياد كه حالا تو سرما بشين تا بند بياد. تازه خود خريدن اين دو جنس داستانها دارد. مي روي ابزار فروشي ده، مي فهمي بدليل چهله پدرش مغازه تعطيل. مصالح فروشي، ٧ مادرش، ده بعدي، فاميل مرحومي كه چهلش هست. ده بعدي هم فاميل همون مرحوم. ديگه از فاتحه خوندن تبديل مي شه به … استخفرلله … خلاصه بعد از گزشتن از چند ده، نوه همون مرحوم يك ابزار فروشي را باز نگه داشته بود. ظاهرا كلا خواندان مرحوم تو كار ابزار بودند. بله سختي هم كشيديم!

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Can’t wait till I get back and car wash!

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Here is an example of Folded Plate Construction. When you study ARE Structural System you see the world differently

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Sun setting

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ARE SE suspended pedestrian bridge, tension and compression

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Resembles the #windcature of Yazd

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Suspended bench

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Tensile structure

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Nature’s Bridge, it’s a pedestrian bridge. It’s hard to tell what kind of structure that is. But it looks more like a Truss Structure

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When the interior is part of the exterior

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#archways leading to #courtyards

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#islamicarchitecture mesmerizes me #mosaic and brick work

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#dome is a revolving #arch

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nothing complements meals as these greens

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#dome interior complex artwork yet simple symmetrical geometry

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Steel structure

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ONTO NORTHERN PROVINCES

 

We take it for granted that #weekend is a two-day deal. In some countries weekend is a one-day deal and a long weekend for them is a two-day deal. And when their long-weekend happens, this madness happens. 20+ million people leaving the capital to go north to the Caspian Sea. It’s a cult. All the roads into the capital gets closed off so this crowd could escape. Same thing happens coming back, all roads into the capital gets closed off. A 4 hour drive becomes a 10 hour experience. Yet over and over they do it again. It’s a cult!

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You know the #figuresticks we have on our cars? This is the same thing here. I had to chase this car in traffic to capture this. Awesome!

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Camp ground at north face of Mount Alam

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Mount Alam

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Mount Alam

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Tree tops

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Skyline

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Riverbank gazebos

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Firing up charcoal for BBQ

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#ilookup

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Native inhabitants

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Wondering in the mountains

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Here they breed one kind of trout, Salmo Trutta, on mountain hill

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Where ma eggs at?

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Green belly lizard

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Not the ideal sheltering but definitely more peaceful living

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Point of view

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Very odd cool looking dead tree

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Very creepy and those ramps definitely not compliant

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1000 cricket orchestra at breakfast

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ONTO EASTERN PROVINCES

 

Nearly 12 hr train ride

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Train cab

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Space framing

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Magnificent #islamicarchitecture #archway

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اينهم براي اهلش

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#breezeway

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Speechless

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One piece stone water pot

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Golden door

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Train ride at sunrise

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Uncle and cousins oddly twining

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Some cities have gone double-decker when road shortage; this one has gone subterranean which leaves the skyline untouched. Hope ventilation works!

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Either pizza is too small or burger is too big; added a can just to put things in perspective

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#bazaar top has being Renovated; space framing roof was added later

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#safran shop

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Dried fruits and nuts

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#honeydewmelon drink, nothing beats this drink, it’s so refreshing! Wish fruits in North America tasted like real fruits!

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In a hot day water mist is really helpful.

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ONTO WESTERN PROVINCES

 

Exterior facade of an outer courtyard

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Beyond certain point you simply can’t differ; plus 45c (113F) hot-dry

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Column wrap

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كنيه ايشان ابو تراب هست

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I’m a bit behind my ARE SE studies. Need to catch up now.

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Old ally perspective

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عجب شربتهايي بودند اينها

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Mountain restaurant with city view

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Here is an example of a Radiant City concept; 1400 year old city grew around a focal cultural point

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In this mountainous city there’s a lot of political talk whether there was a need for this freestanding telecommunication tower using tax payers’ or to use the natural resources and utilize that funding in more needed areas! Sometimes considering a LEED certificate could resolve serious politics. That’s Architects resolving Politics, after all Architects are Problem Solvers! Also mind it sits on a seismic bed!!

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#greengage just the way it should taste

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گوشت كوبيده سنتي

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When you need to go but you have to hold it!

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Dubai terminal 3 is like home away from home; so much you can do; facilities so clean makes you wanna go; I don’t understand why western countries can’t maintain clean facilities like they do here, yet more international!

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The End!

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