Tower of Silence

Yazd Province · Iran

Tower of Silence, Iran
Photo: Unknown author, CC BY 4.0 via Wikimedia Commons

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Best time to go
October to April
Budget
$
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Twin circular hilltop structures outside Yazd where Zoroastrians once laid their dead for excarnation by vultures. The bare stone platforms and adjacent ritual buildings overlook the surrounding desert plain.

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