In a quiet valley 230 km northeast of Shiraz the Bavanat region is a 20 km-long walnut forest in a lush valley between the Zagros Mountains in the south and deserts to the north. The real destination here is the village of Shah Hamzeh Bazm 18 km further east The Mountains near Bazm are home to Khamseh nomads, a confederation of five groups of Arabic, Turkish and Farsi-speaking people. From about April until October they pitch their tents in the hills and survive with few of the ‘luxuries’ you might see in the tents of Qashqai nomad of north of Shiraz.