Singaporean in Iran

Nope, we were not in any difficult situation in Iran. Not at all. Our trip was very smooth and enjoyable. We did not even encounter any protest throughout our 10 days in Iran.

Our ticket costed $1.3k return on emirates.

Getting from town to town in Iran is most convenient by bus as some bigger cities such as Tehran, Isfahan, Shiraz has more frequent bus services. Plus you can save on accom by taking a night bus also.

Have fun planning for the trip, it is a very nice country to visit. I am sure u guys will enjoy it as much as we had.

regards :)


On 19-Mar-2011, at 7:12 PM, Chanzl wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Did u get caught in any difficult situation? We are quite worried about protests in Iran. Were you in the area when the major protests were taking place?
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> We are planning to take airasia from sin to kl den from kl to Tehran by airasia again. How much was your airticket? In Iran we are still planning our route but most likely we will be taking bus around. Is it okay for us to do that?
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> Hope you are enjoying your trip!
>
> Thank you!
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
> On Mar 19, 2011, at 16:06, Kok Kiong Tong wrote:
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>> Hi there,
>>
>> At the time that we were there, it is very peaceful. I guess is partly due to the Iranians are preparing for their new year, so they dun have much time to go around protest. However on our first night, we were told that there was a minor protest. Nothing much has been reported about it and we din even know about it until our guide in Shiraz told us about the protest. The rest of our trip was very quiet and peaceful. We get alot of curious looks asking where we were from.
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>> I have seen your blog, you guys are visiting quite a number of places. Are you guys going on bus from town to town in Iran? As air travel although cheap and fast needs at least 3 days booking and we can't just walk in to buy tickets like what we would do in Sg.
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>> You question about airline allowing you to board without a visa, Iran is unlike places like australia, we got on our plane with no visa either and we flew from sg to tehran. it is alright i guess. We flew by emirates as they have more flighs to tehran from sg daily (3 flights per day) and easier for us to plan our time.
>>
>> regards
>> KK
>>
>> On 19-Mar-2011, at 3:52 PM, Chanzl wrote:
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>>> Hi!
>>>
>>> Thank you so much for your information. It is really very helpful. My group of friends are actually planning to arrive at Tehran and cross border to turkey in June. We were wondering how is the situation in Iran now? I'd it safe?
>>>
>>> Hope to receive your link soon! You can check our website at vsnpccfusionoize.blogspot.com for information on our coming trip to Iran-turkey we have posted.
>>>
>>> Thanks so so much!
>>> Zhan liang
>>>
>>> Sent from my iPhone
>>>
>>> On Mar 19, 2011, at 2:54, Kok Kiong Tong wrote:
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>>>> Hi Zhan liang,
>>>>
>>>> Sry for the late reply as I did a Dubai stopover after my Iran trip and just touched down today. We were quite surprise about the visa process in Iran when we landed there. There is no need to apply for any visa at all, no need to even pay 50 euros to get the visa on arrival that you might have read abt on some forums. What happened to us was we went to the Visa on arrival counter in IKA, the guy was shock tat we even went to him. He then told us to go to immigration control (the counters tat u get ur passports stamped). We followed his instructions and the customs guy at the immigration control simply see our passport, keyed into the computer and then stamped our passport. The whole process takes less then 2 mins, even faster then going to malaysia. There isn't any immigration cards for us to fill as well. Wif our passport we can stay in Iran up to 15 days. I am now in the midst of writing up my travel blog on my Iranian trip. I will be happy to share with u the link once it is done.
>>>>
>>>> meanwhile do not hesitate to ask any questions abt traveling to Iran, I'll try my best to reply u
>>>>
>>>> have fun,
>>>> regards
>>>> KK
>>>> (aka diviva on tripadvisor)
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