The next trip was Shiraz. It was written about by Yesenin in his Persian Motifs, and sung by Hafez.
The city lies in Fars Province, the historical homeland of the Persians and the Persian language. This is where Iranian statehood was born.
In the south of the Caspian Sea, where the humid air smells of tea and forest, lives a people whose name is rarely spoken aloud. The Talysh. Their land does not try to impress — it teaches you how to listen.