Abyaneh - an old village near Kashan

The ancient village of Abyaneh at  2235m is situated at the foot of Mt Karkas (3899m), and is a warren of steep, twisting lanes and crumbling red mud-brick houses with lattice windows and fragile wooden balconies. its elderly residents speak Middle Persian, an earlier incarnation of Farsi that largely disappeared some centuries ago.
The village is at least 1500 years old.  It was built this way to maximize the sun it receives and minimize the effects of howling gales in winter. 
Abyaneh was filled with Tehran tourists that out numbered the residents of colorfully clad, toothless old women selling the price of dried plums. 

I and Ana recruited two other backpackers to share a taxi ti the village. We wandered around the village and had lunch there. We saw the 14th-century Imamzadeh-ye Yahya with its conical, blue-tiled roof, and the Zeyaratgah shrine. 
As usual, we were asked by Iranian where we came from and were taken photos with them.