Kerman’s Meymand village is considerably different from the other villages you’ve seen thus far. Strange architecture and buildings stacked on top of each other in the center of the mountain have visited the town of Meymand in Kerman, a must-see for any visitor. This building and sculpture, while simple, reflect the power of the mysterious […]
Meymand (also spelt Maymand and Meimand) is a village of troglodytes – cave dwellers – located in the south-eastern Iranian province of Kerman. Meymand village has been continuously inhabited for 2,000 to 3,000 years making it one of Iran’s four oldest surviving villages. Some claim that Meymand village has been inhabited for 12,000 years, that […]
Meymand is a self-contained, semi-arid area at the end of a valley at the southern extremity of Iran’s central mountains. The villagers are semi-nomadic agro-pastoralists. They raise their animals on mountain pastures, living cave dwellings carved out of the rock (kamar), an unusual form of housing in a dry, desert environment. Maymand includes 2500 rooms […]
