The first trip of the day was to the Towers of Silence, which Zoroastrians used to dispose of the dead. If you want the gory details, the bodies are left to the elements (and the vultures) and after a while the remaining bones are swept into the centre ossuary. For various reasons, this ceased to work satisfactorily sometime in the 1950s I think and they resorted to cemeteries, but the towers have remained.
Two towers of silence - the ones on the hills that is, not the two brick structures.
Preparing to climb.
At the top.
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