LUT DESERT

You always watch these Hollywood movies, caravans riding through Sahara’s unmerciful heat, exploring and experiencing, and with your limited time (due to the pile of cases on your desk, thanks boss!) you wonder will you ever have the chance to truly touch and feel hot sand under your feet. I mean, you always can wear your hiking shoes! But still, you know what we mean.

Join us on a short, but memorable adventure In Lut, or what Iranians would call Dasht-e Lut. Located in the southeast of Kerman, Lut desert is the twenty-seventh desert of the world ,which was listed on UNESCO’s World Heritage Sites on July 17, 2016. This breathtaking beauty is a large salt desert which covers yardangs, nabkhas, kaluts and sand dunes.

Have you watched The Martian? Did you like it? Hope you do, because you are going to walk on Mars of the earth! After conducting lots of studies and running multiple tests, Nasa has declared that there appears to be some similarity between some parts of Lut desert of Iran and Mars! So, if you couldn’t be an astronaut, be an adventurer and don’t miss our limited tour. 

You will meet beautiful mysterious Shahdad Kaluts, located in the western part of the desert. When you look at them from far away, they seem to be some sky scrapers in the middle of the desert, like a mirage; Some people call it city of ghosts or Lut city.

Kaluts are sandy pyramids which are shaped by desert wind erosion and water. It’s been said that there is no life in the midst of these Kaluts and no human being has ever been able to walk through all part of it. Feeling challenged? To arouse your curiosity even more, you should know that a nail of a dinosaur and pieces of Meteorites have been identified in Lut.

Nebka Forrest is the only thing close to a plant that you find in this area. By using groundwater tables, Nebkas fight against getting buried under sand.