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Mount Damavand Location

Damavand Mountain is situated in the district of Mazandaran about 80 Km (driving distances) North-East of Tehran. It is in the central part of the Alborz Mountain Range and on the southern coast of the Caspian Sea. Damavand is almost half-way the Haraz Road between the capital city Tehran and Amol city in Mazandaran Province in the northern Iran. The coordinates and the GPS landmark of Damavand Summit is: Latitude 35-57-19 N, Longitude 52-06-37 E.

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Damavand First Campsite Polour Resort
The best starting point for trekking Damavand Iran either from classic south route or the west route is called Damavand Camp 1 Polour Hut. Polor copmplex campsite is a shortcut to the mountain and is an ideal place for accommodation and acclimatization. Polour Resort is a quite suitable mountain hut in the area. Polur Hut is made by Iran Mountaineering & Sport Climbing Federation (also called Mountain Climbing Federation of Iran) and it is administered by the same organization.


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Trek Mount Damavand Iran

Climbing Damavand the highest peak in Iran and the Highest Volcano in Asia is a life time memory. The experience of trekking this summit with a group of climbers from the entire world is very rewarding. Before ascending this giant volcano it is necessary to get all useful information about this prominent mountain of Iran. You can find the best source of information in English for hiking, mountaineering, snowboarding and ski touring in Damavand Info.

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Damavand in Winter

Snow covers Mount Damavand in winter and the upper parts in spring and autumn. The summit is snow-capped several months a year. Ice and hardened-snow remain all the year on the north face glaciers. Mt Damavand is an excellent symmetrical cone volcano with a narrow snowy summit. It looks like Fujiyama in Japan. Damavand volcano lies about 80 kilometres north-east of Tehran in the northern Persian plateau. The white peak and its beautiful cloud cap is the most attractive sight of Iran mountains.

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Mount Damavand Cloud Cap

Mt Damavand cloud cap during sunrise.
View from Sorkheh-Hesar Park Tehran, Iran.
Photo by Damavand Info.

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Events Calendar 2010
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1-4 August 2010 Mt Damavand South Route
An economy tour for foreign climbers to reduce their cost to Mt Damavand, 4 days shared tour. We offer these kind of tour each year, enabling newcomers to visit the beauties of this magnificent volcano and give them the chance to climb the summit of Iran. We guide many climbing groups and individuals to the summit in this category every summer and we share our experience to give you best chance of success.

Mt. Damavand in Summer

Interested foreign group and individuals may join this shared tour, contact for more info. We offer the best competitive price for this tour, book your place in advance and get the benefit of this economy tour.

Booking
To make sure of your palce in this tour, it is requierd to registrer and finish the registration procedure before 1 July 2010.

Mt Damavand Private Tours
In case you like more orivacy, we can suggest our private tailor made tours for your outdoor tourism activity with our excellent services and qualified teams to support teams and individuals in private custom designed categories.
Note, We do not publish our private tours in events calendar.

More Information
• The dateit is not flexible, it is set for 1-4 August 2010
• It is better to apply to be registered in this tour ASAP
• You must be fit enough for such a tour.
• The tour is based on for a min of 4 participant, but we may be a little flexible for the numbers.
• Contact for more info: Sherppa[at]gmail.com
• See also Terms of Payment in MDG.

4 Days Shared Tour Itinerary 1-4 August 2010
Damavand South route .

Day 1 - Arrival Day - 1 August 2010
Transfer from Tehran hotel or International Airport (IKA ) to: Camp1 Polour Hut, 2270 m, just rest in the hut for acclimatization, no climbing or hard exercises and no pollution of Tehran weather, over night in Polour Hut.

Day 2 - Starting Day - 2 August 2010
Transfer from Camp1 to Camp2 Base, as far as car can go, and by 4 to 6 hours trekking to Camp3, over night in Camp3 New Hut.

Day 3 - Summit Day - 3 August 2010
Team start climbing at about 5 am towards Summit, and then return back to camp3 and stay the night in New Hut.

Day 4– Return Day - 4 August 2010
We descend down to camp2, drive to camp1 and then to Tehran, tour ends.

Included
• Permit fee for foreign climbers
• Accomedation in Camp1 Hut, it is a quite good hostel/lodge
• Accomedation in Camp3 New Hut, inestead of shelter
Camp3 New Hut is the best place for accomedation in the area
• All land transfers to and from Tehran
Transfer from IKA Airport or hotel to Camp1 Polour Camp and back
Transfer from Camp1 - Polour Camp to Camp2 Base Camp and back
• Camp1 Hut & Camp3 New Hut charges
• Porters/mules to carry your equipments from Camp2 Base Camp to Camp3 New Hut
• Experienced guide
• Hot meal in camps, breakfast, lunch, dinner, soft drink & cooking gear
• Lunch box during the day
• Hotel booking in Tehran
• Sleeping bag and tent if necessary

Not included
(But we may arrange it for you.)
This is the land only itinerary, please make your own way to the tour starting point.
• Termal Spring
• Domestic Flights
• Hotel charges

Base Camp Damavand, Iran
Photo by Ardeshir Soltani

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AliSadr Cave
Ali Sadr Cave , Ghar Ali Sadr
AliSadr (Ali Sadr) Cave is a cave located in 75 km north of Hamedan in western Iran .The cave belongs to second Jurassic period (130-190 million years ago); its walls can extend up to 40 meters high, and it contains several large, deep lakes. The cave has a river flowing through it and traveling through the cave is mostly done by pedal boats. Ali Sadr cave is situated between the large cities in Hamedan, Tehran and Zanjan making it a popular destination for Iranians and foreign tourists.
The cave was originally discovered during the reign of Darius I (521-485 BC) which can be verified by an old inscription at the entrance of the tunnel. Knowledge of the cave existence there have been within local residents for centuries, however, its exploration as a natural attraction was in 1963. It is opened to public from 1975 to now. In the summer of 2001, a German/British expedition surveyed the cave to be 11 kilometers long. The main chamber of the cave is 100 meters by 50 meters and 40 meters high. A tour of the cave can be seen by pedal boats to a centrally located large atrium. --pbase

Ali Sadr Cave , Ghar-e-Ali Sadr
Useful Information
Location: 80km northwest of Hamadan, 350km E of Teheran. Buses from Teheran to Hamadan and from Hamadan to Ali Sadr Cave.
Fee: Adults 2000 Rial
Classification: Karst cave.
Light: electric.
Dimension: L=11,440m, VR=40m, A=1,500m a.s.l., T=11.5°C.
Guided tours: L=1,400m, by boat, V=80,000/a [2006]
Bibliography: E. Fritsch (1995): Höhlen in Persien, Mitteilungen des Landesvereins für Höhlenkunde in Oberösterreich; 41(1); 57-62; Linz ()
Pete Szablyar (1988): Ali Sadre-barlang (Iran), Karszt es Barlang 1988(2):113, Budapest. ()
Georg Kaufmann, Michael Laumanns, Thilo Müller (2001): Iran - Ghar Ali Sadr, Mitteilungen des Verbandes der deutschen Höhlen- und Karstforscher, Nr. 2/2001, Jg. 47 ()
Last update: $Date: 2007/12/07 15:37:41 $

History
~500 B.C. artificial entrance tunnel into the cave built.
~1960 discovered by a local shepherd looking for a lost goat.
1963 explored by Iranian mountaineers.
1978 discovered by an inhabitant of Ali Sadr.
1994 new parts of the cave discovered but not surveyed.
DEC-2000 a German expedition, Dr. Georg Kaufmann, Michael Laumanns, and Thilo Müller surveyed most of the cave.

Description
Ali Sadr is a water cave, most of the trip is done by boat. But the cave is not a typical river cave with a flowing river, the water is more like a very long lake and crystal clear. Of course the cave shows many formations, but the standing water also allowed the growth of calcite crystals on the walls. They are 5 to 10 cm in size and cover the walls under water and up to about 3 m above todays water level.

Ali Sadr has 400,000 visitors per year (1994), which makes it one of the most visited cave of the world. For a comparison: the famous Postojnska Jama had about 1,000,000 visitors per year in the eighties, the Eisriesenwelt has about 200,000 visitors per year. Because of the political situation and the difficulties to visit the country, the visitor must be from the Iran, not from abroad. Ali Sadr Cave is between huge cities like Hamadan, Teheran, Qom and Bakhtárán. And as far as I know, it is the only show cave in the Iran. This may explain the enormous number of visitors.

The 1994 new discovered parts of the cave are said to be enormous. But all older publications of a length of 11km were just a rumour. The number based on a very vague appraisal. In December 2000 a German expedition started a completly new, state of the art, survey. This survey was completed by a German/British expedition in summer 2001 and the result was by coincidence really 11kms. This makes Ali Sadr the longest (surveyed) cave of the country. The main chamber is 100 to 50 m big and 40 m high, the second largest is not much smaller.

For a very long time, the cave was a water reservoir for the people in nearby village Ali Sadr. The artificial entrance tunnel to the cave was built during the reign of Dareios I. (521-485 B.C.), King of the Araemenides. At least this is what an old inscription at the entrance tells. This tunnel leads the water to the surface.

The cave is known to the people for a very long time. However, most of this knowledge was lost, and so the cave was rediscovered in 1978, when the water from the spring diminished. An inhabitant of Ali Sadr followed the tunnel in search for the water. Another story tells, the cave was rediscovered already in 1960 by a local shepherd looking for a lost goat. --Show Caves of Iran

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