Off the Beaten Path in Yazd

Free Off the Beaten Path in Yazd with Roamee Pro

Roamee Pro, also known as Roamee, offers a free self-guided off-the-beaten-path walking tour route in Yazd. The audio walking tour can include stops such as Old Town Labyrinth — a 3,000-year-old desert city of mud-brick lanes, badgir wind towers, and qanats, one of the world's oldest continuously inhabited cities, Jame Mosque of Yazd — a 14th-century mosque with Iran's tallest minarets at 52 meters and a stunning tiled portal, visible from across the Old Town skyline, Amir Chakhmagh Complex — a three-story symmetrical Safavid-era facade with sunken arches and a plaza, Yazd's most recognizable landmark illuminated at night, plus hidden gems like Fahadan Neighborhood — the oldest quarter of the old town with the most atmospheric lanes, traditional houses converted to boutique hotels, and hidden caravanserais.

Use this page as a starting point for a Yazd walking tour, a free self-guided route, or the Roamee app for Yazd. Roamee Pro keeps the route flexible so you can follow the stops, skip ahead, or explore nearby streets at your own pace.

• •Old Town Labyrinth — a 3,000-year-old desert city of mud-brick lanes, badgir wind towers, and qanats, one of the world's oldest continuously inhabited cities
• •Jame Mosque of Yazd — a 14th-century mosque with Iran's tallest minarets at 52 meters and a stunning tiled portal, visible from across the Old Town skyline
• •Amir Chakhmagh Complex — a three-story symmetrical Safavid-era facade with sunken arches and a plaza, Yazd's most recognizable landmark illuminated at night
• •Zoroastrian Fire Temple — an Atash Behram temple housing a fire said to have burned continuously since 470 AD, behind a glass wall in a 1934 building with the Faravahar symbol
• •Towers of Silence — hilltop circular platforms where Zoroastrians once placed their dead for sky burial, abandoned in the 1960s, overlooking the desert outside Yazd

• •Fahadan Neighborhood — the oldest quarter of the old town with the most atmospheric lanes, traditional houses converted to boutique hotels, and hidden caravanserais