Itinerary: Part 1

Planning the itinerary has fallen into my hands; so far it looks like this:

• Tehran - ugly concrete, crazy traffic, outstanding museums, fabulous palaces.
• Qom - Ayatollah Khomeini's birthplace; the beating heart of hard-core Shia Islam.
• Isfahan - the sublime Imam square and stunning mosques.
• Shiraz - the cultural soul of Iran; ornate mausoleums, ancient mosques, gardens and palaces.
• Yazd - a peaceful mud-brick town on the edge of two deserts.

...and maybe Bam, but that's a bit too near the Afghanistan and Pakistan borders for comfort. We'll see how the situation looks when we're there.