Fortress Around My Heart

During your turn to Iran, this will be a fascinating experience to do a trip to Alamut to be personally familiar with the type of land and the location type where these people remained in. It helps learns you and you remembers of why the assassins had chosen this site to take their resistance movement against the foreign invaders of Seljuk.

A Word of the Assassins

As one under branch of Shiite Moslems, Ismailis, known as Assassins in the world of the west, had several fortresses as their residence and their fortresses in some hard sectors attaining Iran since the period of Seljuk. The pioneer of this school of thought of which the name always is associated with Ismailis, Hassan-e-Sabbah, lived in this fortress until it is dead a natural death. Do a trip to the fortress of Alamut will furnish you with an occasion to be put to the current with the mentality of this group of Iranian ones that had launched the fear and the fear in the hearts of the aggressors that occupy Iran.

The location of Fortress of Alamut

To remember of that during your turn to Iran, is without any doubts the value that doing a trip to Alamut to the west of the north of city of Qazvin. You should cross the mountains of Alborz and drive by 100S of bends on the road of blacktops for almost 120 km to arrive to the fortress. The faces and the words cannot express the mysterious agitation of this trip. You keep to ask how the people could decide to take such a location for their fortress, how they could survive there specially in the cold icy one of winter, and a lot of other questions.

This fortress was in the usage by the local governors of the long Alborz before Hassan-e-Sabbah finished by there. In View the hardship of the trip by the means of today of transportation, it could be realized how much more difficult this could have been for the foreign invaders to discover this sector.

The passage by Moalem Kelayeh, you know that you need around 20 km to continue on the same road to obtain to an intersection where you turn left towards the town of Gazorkhan. This town is just someone hundred meters before the fortress of Alamut. Believe it if you want, the travelers can specify scarcely the fortress when this is in front of their eyes same before they arrive to the town!

The Better Time To Do a trip to Alamut

The better time of the year to do a trip to Alamut would be in the month of April and May to visit this site. September and October could be other months of the year that you can do a trip to Alamut as the time is not unpleasant nevertheless. The winter is the time when person recommends you for there to go. Typically, any turned to Iran will be more or less than this period.

In the month of April or May, depend on the temperature and in the true Spring, stunning beauty of the mountains done the long trip runs for you. You put' sees mountains very of the sturdy ones as in some somewhere else Alborz. When green, fresh and soft grass covers the well rolled hills and reflects the sun in a soft climate, you take the pleasure in inhales enough pure oxygen in the air and appreciates the landscapes revitalizing.

The climatic changes so in a manner spectacular during your turn of Qazvin to Alamut that you obtain to see low level of paddys of rice in the plains close to the river although the summits snows put a ceiling on of the high regions always their heads above the adjacent moluntains.

The Form of Fortress of Alamut

This fortress is behind and in a huge virgin boulder that seems of no other boulders in the range in the measure where it easily could be mistaken with the others. You arrive to the foot of the hill where the rocky fortress is and you always have the difficulty to see it. You must lead it and climbs some very difficult cliffs to be able to see the entry.

Now, put itself in the shoes of those that does a trip to Alamut. As a guest that does not have the fear of is seen and is targeted by the guards, you will have filled with the prodigy as for how to enter. Just to imagine itself how hard it had been without any doubts for these unknown foreign troops with that. Surely, an exploration in the fortress that will be itself as the decoding of the secret of life and the survival in this fortress crushing.