>>3157669I tried really hard to find a motorcycle rental place, but it seems from googling a lot about it, that it's not really a done thing in Iran. For the few outings I ended up doing alone, I had to resort to hiring a taxi to take me around, which was cheap, and somewhat fun with them not speaking a word of English and being amused at the autistic foreigner who paid money to go take pictures of the desert, but of course not as nice as having a motorcycle would have been.
Food is quite cheap, and quite dull after the first few days. Get ready to eat lots of kebab.
Don't try to pick fights with any people with any sort of authority. Bureaucracy is terrible, and people love to drag it out. I had one situation when I tried to leave the hotel to catch my flight home where there was an issue with the payment, that was supposed to be handled by the agent but wasn't. Of course I wasn't able to sort it out myself since my card didn't work there, and I almost missed my flight home and would have overstayed my visa, something you definitely don't want to do. A former colleague of the colleague I went with once got stuck in Iran for two months, which, lovely as the country was, sounds like hell on earth. I ended up screaming in the receptionists face to «give me my fucking passport back right this minute before I call the fucking police», one of my least proud moments, but I was really freaking out by this point. That plus dealing with some bullshit, never explained detention by airport security, had the plane not been delayed I would have been stuck there to deal with endless red tape with little cash to help me. Do not bribe anyone unless very sure.
Buying an Iranian SIM card is very cheap, but is somewhat involved, as you need to go to a state communications office to activate it. Try to befriend someone to help you, it's really worth it to have 4G, and you can get cheap VPNs for your phone to access facebook, 4chin and other things that are blocked.
