I am Francois from Paris, France. I have travelled some 15 times across almost everywhere in Iran over the last two decades, which has given me the opportunity to know this marvellous country inside out. I have therefore come across different tour guides, most of whom were way below my expectations -some even cheated on me or were too lazy to bother.

Mehdi Dehghan genuinely stand out from the crowd. As a seasoned travel photographer who has been to more than 100 countries in the world, I have an extensive experience of how a good a guide should be and behave in order to meet my high expectations. This said, Mehdi always exceeds my expectations and manages to make all my dreams come true. Even in places where I have been several times before, he manages to find new topics for me, which perfectly match what I enjoy shooting.

Mehdi has outstanding communication and listening skills which allow him to achieve precisely what I would like to do during each of my trips, especially for my specific photography requirements. Mehdi is extremely knowledgeable and speaks English perfectly, besides being a very kind individual with a great sense of humour. In addition, he has an extensive network all across the country, so that he can quickly find the appropriate response to my sometimes complex requests.

Furthermore, Mehdi is extremely flexible and hard working, which is far from being the case with the vast majority of tour guides in Iran. The cherry on the cake is that Mehdi always negotiates prices in my best interest, so that I can benefit from prices for Iranians –not prices for tourists– as well as material discounts on accommodation.

I would highly recommend Mehdi to anyone who travels in Iran.

The 3 weeks spent with Medhi were a delight. We particularly appreciated his professionalism, his culture, his political and economic knowledge of his country. He also showed great adaptability and was able to take us to unusual places. In short, we spent very pleasant and enriching moments. It is with great pleasure that I would go again with him to discover other places and more particularly the region of Shiraz.

I'm Sergio and I'm a 28 italian guy who had an AMAZING 14 days experince in Iran thanks to this official tour guide: Mr. Mehdi, the best tour guide I ever had.

during the last summer a friend of mine started planning a trip in Iran and asked me if I was interested and ofcourse I was because Iran it's such an amazing and historical and wonderful and cool place to visit.

all the journey was tailored via a lots of mails step by step with Mehdi, the best tour guide my friend could find on the web according to a huge ammount of reviews and trip journals.

we felt that Mr. Mehdi was the right tour guide at the begging of our story, because he is smart, kind, very serious and he has a great great knowledge of his Country and all of its beauties and facilities also.

once we decided the dates and the flights, Mr. Mehdi also helped us with visas and gave us all the infos we had to know.

before writing down about how cool was travel with Mehdi, I want to say a big THANK YOU to him, because he really let us enjoy our trip to that marvelous Country.

with his perfect english and his courtesy, Mehdi waited for us at the airport of Shiraz when we landed in the night, at 1 am, and brouth us with his car to an amazing 4 stars hotel, exceding our expectation.

we asked him for very good places to stay and what he arrange for us was a real goal: every hotel was great and it's all thanks to his knowledge of litterally every place in Iran.

our trip took us from the south to the north and Mehdi was an excelent driver, always ready and very scrupolous and safe.

in every place we were, Mr. Mehdi kwons exactly what make us visit, offering us also some alternatives and suggesting us the better way to enjoy everything, strating from the food.

he offered us all the traditional experiences, but also some out of the map places, according to our taste, like a tea in the desert after the offroad trip, a martial art exhibition, an underground city, a bike tour in the old city of Yazd, some historical and also religious sites.

A great mention goes to the Iranian food (and I'm Italian, we know how a great food tastes) and to Mr. Mehdi, again, that knows the best places where we could savor and appreciate the true local taste.

as an official tour guide, Mehdi always monitored us, avoiding us to had any kind of problems or scams; we felt safe and it was really important in a place where customs, habits and language is so different from our.

I'm totally convinced that my trip would not be as amazing as it was without Mr. Mehdi, that's why I recommend everyone this guide, his wit, his knowledge in history, his openmindness, his ability to let you learn and learn from you in the meanwhile, his skills and, last but not least, his capacity to be always not too much and not little in every situation.

I really looking forward to have another experience like this with Mr.Mehdi because after 14 days I could feel him as a friend.