Beautiful. It’s fascinating to see how a people turned a region that seems so inhospitable (to a European) in to a very liveable place.
Windcatchers [0] and “Freezers” [1] are beautiful examples of that. Persian desert towns are a special place. And much of their ancient irrigation still stands today.
While beautiful, it is growing. The IRGC (Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps) was given control of doing large infrastructure projects and they have built some 600 dams since 1979. This is causing an ecological disaster.
A Persian friend told me about the historical use of underground tunnels to transport water from the mountains for irrigation - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qanat
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[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windcatcher
[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yakhchāl
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