http://www.irtat.i/ Tourists travelling to Kerman Province in Iran will be offered the unique chance to live a native life in the ancient village of Meymand.
Meymand, a village carved out of the mountains in Iran's Kerman Province, is one of the most ancient human settlements in the world that is believed to be 2500 years old.
Kiarash Eghtesadi, head of Meymand's Research Center, says a new scheme has been planned to allow tourists to live as the native villagers do, learning basket weaving, felt and saddlecloth making and how to harvest almonds and walnuts.
Built thousands of years before Persepolis, Meymand village is one of the few rock settlements in the world still intact and the seventh cultural and historical landscape in the world to win the UNESCO Melina Mercury Award.
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