Nahar Khoran - 7 km south of Gorgan, * this forested area is known as Nahar Khoran, and so far remains comparatively unchanged. Colin refers to it as a tree-lined steppe just before the mountain range. There are plenty of hiking trails through dense forest which are easy to find and are just begging to be explored. Though Nahar Khoran can be a bit crowded during Noruz and summer, especially on Friday and public holidays, you may have the whole area to yourself the rest of the time. * Gorgan is the capital of the Golestan Province, Iran. It is approximately 400 km from Tehran. It had an estimated population of 241,177 in 2005. The city was known as Hyrcania in ancient Greek records, which comes from Old Persian Varkâna -- "Land of the Wolf". Although modern Gorgan is only a city and county (sharing the same name), ancient Hyrcania was the name of a region on the southern shores of the Caspian Sea (encompassing present day Golestan, Mazandaran, Gilan and parts of Turkmenistan). In modern times the city used to be known as Astarabad as of 1937.
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