As required by tradition, everyone headed outdoors. Staying indoors can bring bad luck for the entire year. (Sorry, we should have explained that last week!) Here we see a family (above) doing its best to demolish a watermelon as they picnic. Almost every green space in the capital was filled (below) as families vied for space. And families need more space as those camper tents have suddenly become popular in the last decade. At bottom is an aerial shot showing the traffic flow in (or rather heading out from) Kermanshah on Sizdeh Bedar.
