Known as the village of the Lilliput people, Makhunik Village, in south Khorasan, Iran, is a very unusual place that has been kept a secret only until about forty years ago. Despite being only some 1,500 years old, this little village’s architecture looks like it’s from 10,000 years ago. The simple homes here have kept...
What initially seems incredibly surreal to wonderstruck first-time tourists and travellers is, indeed, a very normal every-day reality for the simple yet ancient people of the phenomenal Kandovan Village in Northwestern Iran. The exceptionally rare cave-homes here are of the most organic in the world. Built into the heart of the large mountainous rock formations,...