Nomadic-Iran summer 2011

Nomadic people all over the world (Greek: νομάδες, nomádes, "those who let pasture herds"), commonly known as itinerants in modern-day contexts, are communities of people who move from one place to another, rather than settling permanently in one location.

There are an estimated 30-40 million nomads in the world. Many cultures have traditionally been nomadic, but traditional nomadic behavior is increasingly rare in industrialized countries.

We dont exactly know the original of Iranians Nomadic, but probably they are descendants of first Arians Race moved in Middle East about 8000 years ago.

The National Commission of UNESCO registered the population of Iran at 21 million in 1963, of whom two million (9.5%) were nomads. Although the nomadic population of Iran has dramatically decreased in the 20th century, Iran still has one of the largest nomadic populations in the world, an estimated 1.5 million in a country of about 70 million.

The Bakhtiari (Persian: بختیاری) are a southwestern Persian tribe. The term "bakhtiari" can be best translated as "companion of chance" or "bearer of good luck" .They speak the Bakhtiari dialect,A small percentage of Bakhtiari are still nomadic pastoralists, migrating between summer quarters (sardsīr or yaylāq) and winter quarters (garmsīr or qishlāq). Numerical estimates of their total population widely vary. Bakhtiaris primarily inhabit in Chahar Mahaal and Bakhtiari's mountains, once not long ago (50-80 years ago) they were one of the strongest tribe of Iran but now they are totally isolated from the rest of the world, their life is getting harder everyday, their story have never been told, even Iranians dont know how really they are living in their tends.

From wikipedia.org

One tends and nothing else,you could find same scene in different places.

A little group of nomads family living in their tends between rocks,they practically have nothing.

He is the biggest son of family,he help his father with works.

They just show me how they play with throwing stone at dogs and they just laugh,that's their hobby or better their toy and when i just try to explain that they have not do that to animals they look at me strangely like he wants take our toy?!

Another family member,i just find her sitting on the stone and looking so far.

One of the best of their tends,the materials are stones,wood and pieces of cloth sewn together.

A nomadic grocery,they have not so much things,Tea , some pair of shoes, cigarette,shampoo and some of their products like honey and butter.

The grocery owner,his wife and the child.he was the only one who accepted to take photos of his wife from this close,nomads are not so religious but they have their unwritten rules and one of them is the woman must be protected from stranger's eyes,but instead of that they are hospitable.