walnuts’ valley

Posted by Abbas عباس (TEHRAN, Iran) on 26 May 2007 in Landscape & Rural and Portfolio.

persian: دره گردو
Original Name: Aghouz Darreh آغوز دره
Location: Iran / Mazandaran / Walnuts’ Valley
موقعيت: كوه‌هاي هزارجريب، رشته كوه البرز؛ مازندران
A trip to the walnuts’ valley

You get far from the city, as a strange fog from around the mountains and that beautiful valley gets close to your eyes. A rooster flaps its wings, seems that he is saluting. A cattle in guard of the dogs’ barking and the sound of the bells crosses your heart and the village full of tin and clay roofs with rambling houses and cozy narrow alleys, full of windows get round your body. The butterflies land on your hands. Fog gets closer and the surrounding view gets further; you see nothing more than a fancy far from a bird’s flight that gets closer or further?!
Capturing these photos goes back to the time of my 3-day trip to a village in the heart of the mountain called “Aghouzdarreh” which means “the valley of walnuts!” in the first days of Norouz of 84 that was silence and silence and fog and snow!

Village: Aghouzdarreh
Location: Mountains of HezarJarib, Alborz Mountain range, Iran
Distance from Galoogah: 40
Distance from Nowkandeh: 31
Households: 135
Population: 482
Non-residential population: 950

Translated by: Mansoureh moddares

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