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| Bandar-é Anzali is a harbour
city along the Caspian Sea. This city is an ideal place for a boat trip. Anzali is the place for a boat making a slow tour through the harbour. and is the place for speedboats too. After the harbour, set course for the Mordab-é Anzali or Anzali Lagoon, an area of 450 square km of water, reeds, water birds and lotus flowers. In other words: a lot of nature.  |
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 Park in center of city |
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 Tea and hookah house |
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 Looking north into Caspian sea. From Sepid-Kenar Hotel, 3 rd. floor . |
 Looking north into Caspian sea. From Sepid-Kenar Hotel, 3 rd. floor . |
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 During Shah Dynasty above wine and Champaign holder was used in the Sepid-Kenar hotel . At the present they are placed in lobby and hotel hall ways as ashtray ! ( Sales or drinking of alcohol not allow in Islamic government ! ) |
| Anzali is the Place for Caviar too
! What is Caviar? Simply put, caviar is any single salted fish roe or egg. In the United States, as long as the species of the fish precedes the word "caviar", it is considered caviar. TRUE caviar comes from the icy waters of the Caspian Sea where the environment is most conducive to producing the finest sturgeon. Ninety percent of the caviar produced in the world comes from the Caspian Sea. Sturgeons have an unerring survival instinct. These bottom-dwellers with their sensitive barbels and pouted snouts have existed for millennia. Even to this day, relatives of the sturgeon live in the black depths of the ocean, in subterranean watercourses, even in hot springs. Sturgeons are scaleless except for five rows of large, pointed, platelike scales running along the top and sides of the body. Their exoskeleton is part bone and part cartilage, placing them midway between sharks and bony fish. They can live for 100 years, and reach maturity between 12 and 20 years of age. Sturgeons are anadromous, living as adults in marine waters but returning to freshwater rivers and streams to breed. There are almost 20 different types of sturgeon, two of them belong to the genus Huso, the others are of the genus Acipenser. Six of them live in the Caspian Sea, only three sturgeon species produce this exquisite caviar: Beluga, Asetra, and Sevruga yielding over 90% of the world's total production. The end |