Info om kommende prosjekt Iran 2009
27-04-08 01:35
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Nedenfor er et brev på engelsk til kontakt i det Iranske Sykkelforbynd. Det beskriver tanken bak vårt prosjekt og tidspunkt.
En ny fantastisk tur – håper vi!!
Lasse mai 2008-04-27
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Tehran Association of Cycling
Dear M,
We thank you for a very constructive meeting in Tehran 13.4.08, about our cycling project next year. In one week last week Kaja and I got a very fruitful impression of Iran today and of the friendly Iranian people. As I told you we will be about 7 – 11 bikers (2 or 3 are woman) and hopefully 2 more in a film team in agreement with the government. Our group is strictly none commercial and everybody pays their own part. We bring our own bikes, probably racers. The biking will be for a little longer than 3 weeks in Iran, up to 4 weeks totally, and with start June 12. 2009. But the starting day is not completely fixed yet.
As I told in the meeting we are interested in a close cooperation with you. We especially need your help on:
1) suggestions of the best rout
2) practical arrangements of the biking tour, including following cars, support persons, allowance formalities and logistics.
We have different alternatives in hiring a bureau in Norway to help us with part 2), but we understood that you had good contacts with a bureau/ company in Iran that could do this and that it also is experienced. So we rather prefer your alternative, and ask you to affect contact with them for us. Our experience from the week in Tehran was that everything is inexpensive compared to Norway except hotels. The hotel price seems as expensive as in Norway, and that surprises us. Of course the total price for each participant means much, as therefore it seems to us important to work out a good but not to expensive plan for the staying overnight on the tour.
Concerning point 1) we have experience that our group can bike up to 270 km each day, but the average better be 160 – 200 km, of course very dependent of the road condition and the temperature. It is also preferable to have some easy and some “hard” cycling days. And to see everything we must at the important cultural places or cities have some cycling free days. All together that means about 16-18 clear-cut biking days. We also need a program for things to see and to experience at different places/ cities, especially emphasising the aim “peace” and cultural understanding. It may also be important that the film team can some of the days hire their own car and visit also other places than the rest of the group. Also, since at least 3 of the cycling participants will be doctors and probable 2 nurses, it will be of great interest to visit local hospitals and health stations on the way. We already have good contact to arrange this in Tehran.
Concerning the route, as we were talking about, it seemed a good suggestion to start in Tehran (start biking from the mountains north of the town), then cycle along the Caspian sea from Sari to Rasht, then Tabriz – Sanandaj – Khorramabad – Yasuj – Shiraz – Yazd – Esfahan – Qom – Tehran. But this is just our initial plotting on the map, so we are open for many suggestions.
We hope to hear from you soon and to have a good cooperation with you. It will be an honour if some of your bikers could join us on whole or part of the tour, preferably both sexes.
We already know in our hearts that this cycling tour will be a fantastic adventure – and we look forward to the cooperation with you.
The name of out project is, as a “working plan”: “Biking for peace with Iran”. But since it is hopefully not an open war, and since our sincere aim is human and inter cultural understanding and respect, an alternative name is: “The Iranian challenge 2009: biking for universal understanding”. What do you think?
Yours sincerely
Lasse Efskind, project leader
En ny fantastisk tur – håper vi!!
Lasse mai 2008-04-27
**
Tehran Association of Cycling
Dear M,
We thank you for a very constructive meeting in Tehran 13.4.08, about our cycling project next year. In one week last week Kaja and I got a very fruitful impression of Iran today and of the friendly Iranian people. As I told you we will be about 7 – 11 bikers (2 or 3 are woman) and hopefully 2 more in a film team in agreement with the government. Our group is strictly none commercial and everybody pays their own part. We bring our own bikes, probably racers. The biking will be for a little longer than 3 weeks in Iran, up to 4 weeks totally, and with start June 12. 2009. But the starting day is not completely fixed yet.
As I told in the meeting we are interested in a close cooperation with you. We especially need your help on:
1) suggestions of the best rout
2) practical arrangements of the biking tour, including following cars, support persons, allowance formalities and logistics.
We have different alternatives in hiring a bureau in Norway to help us with part 2), but we understood that you had good contacts with a bureau/ company in Iran that could do this and that it also is experienced. So we rather prefer your alternative, and ask you to affect contact with them for us. Our experience from the week in Tehran was that everything is inexpensive compared to Norway except hotels. The hotel price seems as expensive as in Norway, and that surprises us. Of course the total price for each participant means much, as therefore it seems to us important to work out a good but not to expensive plan for the staying overnight on the tour.
Concerning point 1) we have experience that our group can bike up to 270 km each day, but the average better be 160 – 200 km, of course very dependent of the road condition and the temperature. It is also preferable to have some easy and some “hard” cycling days. And to see everything we must at the important cultural places or cities have some cycling free days. All together that means about 16-18 clear-cut biking days. We also need a program for things to see and to experience at different places/ cities, especially emphasising the aim “peace” and cultural understanding. It may also be important that the film team can some of the days hire their own car and visit also other places than the rest of the group. Also, since at least 3 of the cycling participants will be doctors and probable 2 nurses, it will be of great interest to visit local hospitals and health stations on the way. We already have good contact to arrange this in Tehran.
Concerning the route, as we were talking about, it seemed a good suggestion to start in Tehran (start biking from the mountains north of the town), then cycle along the Caspian sea from Sari to Rasht, then Tabriz – Sanandaj – Khorramabad – Yasuj – Shiraz – Yazd – Esfahan – Qom – Tehran. But this is just our initial plotting on the map, so we are open for many suggestions.
We hope to hear from you soon and to have a good cooperation with you. It will be an honour if some of your bikers could join us on whole or part of the tour, preferably both sexes.
We already know in our hearts that this cycling tour will be a fantastic adventure – and we look forward to the cooperation with you.
The name of out project is, as a “working plan”: “Biking for peace with Iran”. But since it is hopefully not an open war, and since our sincere aim is human and inter cultural understanding and respect, an alternative name is: “The Iranian challenge 2009: biking for universal understanding”. What do you think?
Yours sincerely
Lasse Efskind, project leader