On September 18, 2017 we woke up at 9. Right after breakfast we went to see the village of Padena. It’s basically an oasis in the arid region: they cultivate apple, nuts and so on. Our first stop was the cemetery. Surprisingly few people have been buried here. We didn’t get a clear answer, why. The tree in the picture is old… 🙂

One can easily see how lucky these people are: there’s water. But also conflicts because of it. As there’s a limited amount of water, of course, everybody wants to have as much as possible, so that the orchard looks good and the crops are good…

Soroush, our host, took us to a spring. What an inspiration. Right next to the well…

… there was a Qashqai nomad camp.

These people live in tents and migrate South when winter comes. Many already moved to loam houses

An impressive gesture: he gives me something precious. Nice Qashqai boy

Unfortunately we couldn’t communicate with them, but these Qashqai people let us into their homes: the tents

There’s not running water in the tents of the Qashqai people, but the stream provides and excellent source of water

It took some convincing, but eventually they let us take this picture

After visiting Padena and it’s surroundings, we went back to the house of Souroush’s parents. Tights and secure – said Souroush’s father and tied the calf to the tree. And then collecting the nuts began