{"id":6042,"date":"2020-03-29T22:54:24","date_gmt":"2020-03-29T18:24:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/specialexplorer.com\/?p=6042"},"modified":"2020-03-29T22:57:52","modified_gmt":"2020-03-29T18:27:52","slug":"the-museum-of-tea-in-lahijan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/specialexplorer.com\/?p=6042","title":{"rendered":"The museum of tea in Lahijan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The museum of tea:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-6046\" src=\"https:\/\/specialexplorer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Lahijan_tea_harvest-1-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/specialexplorer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Lahijan_tea_harvest-1-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/specialexplorer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Lahijan_tea_harvest-1-450x300.jpg 450w, https:\/\/specialexplorer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Lahijan_tea_harvest-1.jpg 540w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>This museum which is located in Lahijan and is also called Kashef alsaltane, presents the history of tea in Iran from the beginning of its entry to the country.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>For so many years the tea industry was in the hands of the British and they usually took it from India and brought to Persia, so some of the Iranians wanted to import tea directly from India or beyond that planting tea in Iran. One of those genius guys was Kashef alsaltaneh who decided to do so. The best place in which the weather conditions were proper to grow tea was north of Iran, mostly Gilan.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-6045 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/specialexplorer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Ghavanlo-1-1-284x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"284\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/specialexplorer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Ghavanlo-1-1-284x300.jpg 284w, https:\/\/specialexplorer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Ghavanlo-1-1-768x810.jpg 768w, https:\/\/specialexplorer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Ghavanlo-1-1-600x633.jpg 600w, https:\/\/specialexplorer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Ghavanlo-1-1.jpg 824w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 284px) 100vw, 284px\" \/>It is said that due to fight against the British he had to take the seed of tea hidden in his stick while traveling from India to Iran in 1895. He had studied in Paris and spend six years experiencing trade of tea in India to perceive every single important part of this mysterious industry. It is noticeable that he was also the first mayor of Tehran and the ambassador of Iran in India. \u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>The Persian or Iranian tea is one of the best tea all around the world and is usually served in an English style.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>The museum you are visiting nowadays in Lahijan close to Baame Sazb in the town is the mausoleum of Kashef which gives you all you want to know about the history of Tea which is called Chay or Chai in Farsi.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An small museum with a lot of stories to tell&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":6047,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[750],"tags":[1266,1265],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v20.2.1 - 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