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ALAMUT INCE motor transport was introduced in Persia, the picturesque valley of Alamut, situated so near to Tehran, is gradually de• veloping into a popular tourist resort, a place for picnics on a grand scale.
e. the ruins on a cliff situated above the village of Gazur-Kban' (and usually regarded as the original stronghold of the legendary "Old Man of the Mountain" and of his "Assassins") is gradually becoming almost as familiar to every student of Persia as the sight of the blue-tiled mosque of Isfahan, or the ruins of Persepolis.
le was impossible to attempt to come to a conclusion as to which oi the three laruest known ruins in Alarnut-e-thc "Rock", the Shirkuh fort, or the ruins above Gurrnrud.
From this hamlet an extremely steep path leads across the Shlrkuh range to Shahrak1 in the valley of the Alamut stream.
After having inspected these, I returned to the place where I left the Amishk-Shahrak path, and · followed it down to the last mentioned village.
1'1y original intention to return to Qazwin via Sirnyar, crossing the Shahrud stream, did not materialise, and I descended again into the main Alarnur valley, near Badasht, passing on my way through the Anada village.
But afterwards I received information that there was another road, on which, as I was told, there are in several places ruins of villages or fortifications, belonging, most probably, to the Ismaili period.
As noted above, traces of similar settlements are seen near the "Rock of Alarnut", and in Syria: there is a town at the foot of the fort of Masyaf.