It was a navigational center between old Persia, China, and Africa, which led to the island flourishing.Īlso check out: 10 Things to See and Do in Qeshm and HormuzĮven today, Iranian people see the island as one of the best trade hubs in the country to buy reasonably-priced goods and to get better deals, and thus, you’ll see a lot of Iranian going on a shopping spree in their trip to this lovely island. Also known as Abarkawan, a name given to it in the Safavid era, the first mentions of its existence in Persian history clarified the geographical importance of this island that grandly benefited empires’ trade systems and the exchange of cultures with overseas lands. Situated between the opening of the Persian Gulf and the Strait of Hormuz, Qeshm, the largest of Iranian islands, has caught enormous attention to itself throughout Persia’s history.
Qeshm is a sun-scorched island close to the crystal-clear waters of the Persian Gulf that interestingly enough is quite popular among Iranian road-trippers, despite being completely cut-off from the mainland. We are going to kick-start our list of top five Iranian islands with an island that has been overshadowed by other Iranian islands but with enough unbelievable sites and history to hold for itself. This almost-an-island was the retreating destination of Shah Mohammad Khwarazm in the 18th century who fled to from the ravaging onslaught of the Mongol armies and left the defense of the land to his son and soon-to-be king, Jalal ad-Din Mingburnu. Surprisingly, there’s just one northern island in the Caspian Sea, which is more like a loose peninsula, that unexpectedly has dedicated some pages to itself in Persia’s history book. They will tell you about all the beautiful landscapes, mysterious tribes, strategic geographical locations, marine life, and undiscovered properties of these islands that are spread mostly across the Persian Gulf, not far away from the Strait of Hormuz. It’s hard to strike up a conversation with an Iranian with them not pointing out one of the country’s fascinating and mythical islands, some of which being as old as ancient Persian cities and being inhabited for as long as the written history of Persia dates back.
It’s an undoable chore to compare Iranian islands to one another and come up with a list of top five Iranian islands when all of them are entirely sui generis in their own lush eye-catching way. This variety of colors in the soil of Hormuz is the main attraction for tourists to visit the island.Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share on Linkedin Salt dome and cave, red and silver beaches, statue valley, the rainbow valley, and cave. In Hormuz, you can visit a manifold of geo-sites. The entire island is a salt dome with a volcano and erosion-made formations. Hormuz is known as the rainbow island and the paradise of geologists.
Hormuz Island is the other destination on this trip. Also in winter on the southern coast, you can find a crown of turtles lying on the beach and, by renting a boat, you can see Dolphins jumping up and down in the ocean. A huge area on the northern coast of the island is covered by mangrove trees. The most famous one is the mangrove trees, which is called Hara forest by the Iranians. You can find a great variety of flora and fauna in Qeshm. Also, there is a salt dome in the western part of the island, which has the longest salt cave in the world with 6600m length. The Geo-sites of the island are the best samples of erosion-made formations and also you visit Cuesta hills, anticline of Salakh, Dolines, Rockfalls, encrustation, erosion-made gorges, and valleys. Qeshm island is a part of the huge mountain range of Zagros, which has been deformed by the result of the pressure of Saudia Arabia plateau. This tour is focused on the geological face of the island and discovering this spectacular Geo-park. Qeshm Island, the lonely geo-park and the widest island in the Persian Gulf, attracts lots of tourists annually, who are interested in geology, flora and fauna, the culture of local people and discovering unknown places. The Route is: Tehran ✈ Qeshm ? Hormoz ? Bandar-Abbas ✈ Tehran/Dubai Season The Fascinating Geo-Park of Qeshm and Hormoz Island
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