Airport Transfer: You can take a shuttle taxi or private one (darbast) for about US$5.
Taxi: Taxis are the most used and best option for going inside and outside the city. You can fix the rate in advanced.
Mahan:
Mahan, located to the Southeast of Kerman (35 km) on the route from Kerman to Bam, is famous for the impressive mausoleum of the highly great Sufi leader, Shah-Ne'matollah Vali and the Shazadeh Garden.
Shah Ne'matollah Vali: (07:00-22:00) It is a historical complex where contains the mausoleum of Shah Nematollah Vali, one of the most recognizable images of easten Iran. Shah Nematollah Vali died in 1431 aged over 100. In 1436 a shrine was erected in his honor and became a pilgrimage site.
The shrine complex comprises four courtyards, a reflecting pool, a mosque and twin minarets covered with turquoise tiles from the bottom up to the cupola. Shah Abbas I undertook extensions and renovations in 1601, including reconstruction of the tiled blue dome, described as “one of the most magnificent architectural masterpieces in old Persia”.
The small room where Shah Ne'matollah Vali prayed and meditated contains plasterwork and tile decorations. The complex is also famous for its tile work and seven ancient wooden doors.
Shah Nematollah Vali, Kerman, by Razieh Khezri
Shahzadeh Garden: (09:00-22:00) The 19th-century summer residence of the Qajar princes, spread over 5.5 hectares, Shazdeh Garden is a palace full of tall green trees and qanat. It has an entrance and a gate at the lower end and a two-floor residential structure at the upper end. The distance between these two is lined by water fountains.
It was expanded in 1870 by Abdolhamid Mirza Naseroddoleh which continued during the 11 years of his governorship during the Qajar reign.
The pools around Shazdeh Garden were built in a terraced fashion. Its location was selected strategically as it was placed on the route between Bam Citadel and Kerman.
As the sun disappears, the fountains and palaces are floodlit, which gives the garden an amazing sight.
Shahzadeh Garden, Kerman, by Razie Khezri
Shahdad & the Kaluts:
Located 100 km from Kerman, you can visit one of the most beautiful deserts of Iran. This region is known as one of the Geothermal Poles among the geologists.
Shahdad is the largest town in the Takhab area, where a group of about 30 oasis villages wedged between the Payeh Mountains to the south and the vast emptiness of the Dasht-e Lut to the north. Shahdad is fiercely hot in summer.
About 75 minutes drive northeast of Kerman; Shahdad is considered as a gateway to the desert.
On the way to Birjand; leaving the Takhab behind, heads north you will visit the Kaluts. Kaluts are 145km long and 80km wide stretch of deserts dominated by long lines of five to 10-storey high sand castles, which have been sculpted over millennia by a uni-directional wind.
Kaluts, Kerman, by Razie Khezri
Rayen:
Arg-e Rayen is an ancient adobe citadel in Rayen, a small town sitting in the lee of Hezar Mountains 111km from Kerman. On a hill overlooking the town, the Arg’s hotchpotch of architectural styles suggests it is well over 1000 years old, though its exact age is unknown. It had been abandoned for about 150 years before restoration began in 1996. After 2003 earthquake that Bam Citadel destroyed, travelers visit Rayen instead.
Rayen Citadel, Kerman, by Razieh Khezri