TEHRAN – There are 11 targeted tourist villages across Lorestan province, and two of them, Bisheh and Kapar Judaki, have the potential to be included in the list of the world’s top tourist villages.
“Three years ago, we handed over the affairs of Bisheh village in terms of tourism services to the rural district governor so that the local community can benefit from the village’s waterfalls,” Ata Hassanpour, director of the Lorestan Province Cultural Heritage Department, told ISNA.
“That is why all the financial credit for the infrastructure of this village is provided from this location, and moreover in recent years all the infrastructure has been built here, including picnic platforms, access bridges, toilets, prayer rooms and even access roads.”
As for the access road, he said the route to Biche Falls is covered in snowdrifts due to the geological formations, which is always a problem. However, the plans on the agenda of the Road Maintenance Authority will certainly resolve the issue of ditches on this route.
Hassanpur said the village became famous as an unemployment-free village because of the presence of the waterfall and the use of its 12-month benefit, adding that perhaps another reason for this was the village’s railway line.
He further said that the most beautiful part of this route, which is located in Iran and has become world-famous from a geotourism point of view, is this route from Droud to Khuzestan, due to the pristine sights such as tunnels, bridges, waterfalls, endemic animals such as salamanders along the railway axis, which is one of the tourist attractions that are attached to Bisheh, and the hospitality of the people.
Hassanpour said that last year, a river and railway festival was held in the village of Bisheh in the presence of foreign journalists living in Iran, and that the village was one of the eight candidate sites to showcase Iran for inclusion in the World Tourism Organization, but for various reasons it did not receive points.
“In terms of infrastructure, Bishe itself does not have any particular problems with registration. It is only a matter of narration, it is also a ritual, and it is also a spiritual problem that we actually need to address. If the people of Bishe village help and voluntarily work together in this field and this is accepted by the world organization, the village will definitely be registered nationally.”
“However, there is another village in Boljerud called Kapar Judaki, and one of the factors that the group is looking at is the voluntary presence of people in environmental issues, where they build stork nests on electric poles,” he said.
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