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TEHRAN 2022 Driving on snowy Chalus road
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00:00 CHALUS ROAD
18:30 The Ace of Iranian Mountain Roads
Chalus Road or “Jade Chalus” or any other transit route to the north of Iran, or how Iranian call it “Shomal”, are not just candy-twist steep paths and highways through the long stream of Alborz mountains isolating the north of the country from the rest of it, they are green pathways to scarcely touched Persian (Iranian) heavens with traffic jams over the holidays that could make you feel the hell that was prophesied in the Great Testimony and Jesus warned us all about.
Jade Chalus has been named the dream road of Iran with millions of people annually driving their cars to get to Shomal or just to have a fun happy family picnic in one of its numerous on-the-road restaurants which have beautifully integrated themselves with the surrounding nature. It’s a hard quest to find an Iranian who hasn’t left his heart on this lavishing road and not get enchanted by its natural marvels.
All that being said, it’s an offense to lots of other magnificent scenic roads in pretty much every direction of Iran to name Chalus the dream road of Iran but, nonetheless, we are going over this amazing haven of a route that without the slightest amount of doubt is one of the top scenic roads in the land of Persia.
The history of this beautiful road is as interesting as its diverse scenery. Jade Chalus, or Kandovan road or the famous “route 59”, takes us back to the year 1931 and the early days of the Pahlavi dynasty when the first moves to pave this road with concrete and asphalt started. Under the influence of the British army, which, by the way, invaded Iran despite the fact of Iran’s neutrality in World War 1 in fear of the country’s tendency to join the Axis powers, the lack of a well-structured stable paved road to the north put the allied forces in quite of a pickle and the British decided to modernize the Chalus Road. However, even before the great war and the British occupation, Naser al-din Shah, the infamous Qajari Shah, had mentioned the name of Kandovan in his travel diaries and the fact that he, at some point, needed to take a route to cross the hazardous Kandovan pass.
Reza Shah, the fierce and relentless king of Iran in the few early years of the Pahlavi era, made sure that this road is fully operational, and to solve the problems that the Kandovan pass put in front of travelers, he ordered the construction of the Kandovan tunnel. Back then, a project at this caliber would take years and a huge amount of investment to be completed and for the project to continue without the threat of it coming to a halt, Reza Shah personally supervised the development of the tunnel and kept a close eye on the project
Today, the dream road of Iran – Chalus Road, spans for over 160 Kilometers connecting the busy city of Karaj, the capital of Alborz province, and its neighboring city, the infamous crowded city of Tehran, through Alborz mountains and Mazandaran province to a more green city at the shores of the Caspian Sea by the name of Chalus. This road is widely popular and is shut down countless times over the winter season due to the risk of avalanches or heavy snowfalls. Nonetheless, nature can’t be solely blamed for one of Iran’s dreamiest road’s many blockades. Millions of people tend to swirl onto Jade Chalus and cripple the tiny pathway and build such a traffic jam that can go on for days during major holidays and thus, forcing the hand of Iranian traffic police to put a one-way restriction law in order on Chalus Road so it can maintain more fluent traffic and the fact that if this doesn’t happen, some people might don’t even get the chance to see the coastline of the Caspian Sea along the road, let alone reach it!
Over the past decades, quite of few new roads and highways have been constructed to potentially take some traffic load of the historic Chalus Road and inevitably convince the people that other routes can not only be as fun as Chalus Road but also serve them as high-speed multiple lane highways so they can get to their destinations quicker. However, it seems that the Persians are not having any of it and when something of great historic and environmental value grows root in their souls, it’s hard to get it out.
The dream road has manifested itself deeply in the social consciousness and the emotional bonds of the Iranian people. Persians don’t just go to Chalus Road for a good time, they go there to reaffirm their vows and faith with nature and to answer its call.
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