Desert air over a mud-brick ghost town
The technical detail for Kharanaq has not been checked by a local pilot yet. Treat everything here as background reading, not as a site briefing. Fly with someone who knows the site.
Iran’s central plateau is a different sport from the Alborz. Bare ground, hard heating and enormous visibility — and at Kharanaq, a thousand-year-old mud-brick village abandoned beneath it. Spring and autumn are the windows; mid-summer is punishing.
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