Chakchak

Detour from Ardekan to the Zoroastrian fire temple at Chakchak	Kuh-e Hariz near Ardekan	Desert and mountains	Desert and mountains, Yazd Province
Chakchak 23km	Chakchak 23km	Mountains near Chakchak	Mountains near Chakchak
Stopping in the desert	New style Iranian license plate	Mountains near Chakchak	Mountains near Chakchak
Mountains near Chakchak	Mountains and rocky plains	Mountains and rocky plains	Mountains Kuh-e Gur and Kuh-e Dokhtar
The road to Chakchak	The drive to Chakchak is perhaps more interesting for the scenery than the temple	The road to Chakchak	Kuh-e Gur
Late afternoon near Chakchak	Road to Chakchak	Mountains near Chak Chak	Mountains near Chak Chak
Arriving at Chakchak	Blue sky	Chakchak is just around the bend	The Zoroastrian site at Chakchak high on the mountainside
Chak Chak, meaning "drip drip" in Persian, is the site of a mountain spring	The spring is said to have been found in 637 AD	Valley at Chakchak	Iran uses different characters for the number 4, 5 and 6 than standard Arabic. This plate is 11S 736 65
Bridge at Chak Chak	Zoroastrian site at Chak Chak includes the Pir-e-Sabz fire temple	Chakchak	Climbing to the Zoroastrian fire temple
View from the Zoroastrian site at Chak Chak	View from the Zoroastrian site at Chak Chak	IranMar06 1933.jpg	Farohar, a guardian angel in Zoroastrianism, Chak Chak
View from the Pir-e-Sabz fire temple	Brass door to the Pir-e-Sabz fire temple	Zoroastrianism was the state religion of Ancient Persia until the Arab invasion	Door similar to the Achaemenid reliefs at Persepolis
Zoroastrian fire temple	Alter in the Pir-e-Sabz	Zoroastrianism is said to be the oldest monotheistic religion	The fire is not worshiped, rather it represents the purity of god
The prophet Zarathushtra (Zoroaster in Greek)	Faravahar (Ferohar), the Zoroastrian symbol is said to be a depiction of a guardian spirit (Frevashi)	Chak Chak	Zoroastrian men wear white caps
Chak Chak	The temple is built into the cliff where the spring is located	Late afternoon leaving Chak Chak	Late afternoon leaving Chak Chak
Late afternoon leaving Chak Chak	Late afternoon leaving Chak Chak	Late afternoon leaving Chak Chak	Late afternoon leaving Chak Chak
I was able to talk the guide into taking the route to Yazd via Kharanaq instead of backtracking to Ardekan	Good dirt road to Karandaq but very few signs	The guide lost his way and it got dark but we stopped at a remote house for directions	A Persian jackal spooked by the car