Travel Reference
In-Depth Information
Nomads
About a million people still live as nomads in
Iran despite repeated attempts to settle them.
Most migrate between cooler mountain areas
in summer and low-lying warmer regions dur-
ing winter, following pasture for their goats
and sheep. Their migrations are during April
and May, when they head uphill, returning dur-
ing October and November. The majority of nomads are Turkic Qashqa'i and Bakhtiyari,
but there are also nomadic Kurds, Lors and Baluchis, among others; see Nomads,
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Gabbeh,
directed by Mohsen Makhmalbaf, is a
beautiful film centred on a
gabbeh,
a type of Persi-
an carpet made by Qashqa'i nomads, and the love
story of a nomad girl with the same name.
