UntamedIran
An atlas of singular places
Deserts that kill. Ruins older than the alphabet. Water carried under the desert for forty kilometres, and silence you can hear. Sixty-nine untamed stories, ten threads — choose where to begin.
One colour per place — every guide has its own palette
The full index
Nothing answers to that — try fewer letters, or let the map choose.
The through-line
Throughout these journeys, wherever I found myself absorbed in the beauty of a thing or a place, lost in thought about one particular question, or overtaken by a feeling too strange and large to name — I lit a cigarette. I have tried to bring the stories of those cigarettes into these articles, as briefly as I could, in a small section called My Cigarette Moments.
Pick a place. Follow the smoke. →And what is better than that — flat on your back at the most serious theatre in the world, getting to smoke your way through the whole of it?
Cigarette #1