Gileboom Ecolodge

The tour packages offered at Gileboom are listed below: (Gileboom is located in Ghasem-Abad Sofla village, Rudsar County, Gilan Province)

Tour Type Program Duration Best Time Description

 Local trip in kiwi farm  Learning about the tools Kiwi Picking Half day Late Oct. to Dec.  Becoming familiar with kiwi picking  Kiwi picking

Spring, summer, and autumn First day  Tea picking in tea farm Manual Tea It's not possible to  Rolling and rubbing 2 days Processing produce black tea in winter. Only its Second day process can be  Drying the tea leaves observed.  Drawing

Sour Orange  Sour orange blossom picking Late Apr. to late Farm Blossom 1 day  Cleaning May Tourism Picking  Making jam

 Local trip in orange farm Orange Late Dec. to late Half day  Becoming familiar with orange picking Picking Feb.  Orange picking

 Observing the process of rice Rice Late Apr. to late transplanting Half day Transplanting May  Entering rice field  Participating in rice transplanting

 Observing the process of rice Rice harvesting Half day Aug. Harvesting  Entering rice field  Participating in rice harvesting

Amirkelayeh & Boujag Pond

Bird Hint: Coordination for visiting these two 1 day Late Nov. to Feb. Watching ponds and facilitating a specialized leader for birdwatching must be carried out Hiking before departure, at the city of origin.

 Walking in the lanes Eisal-Koo  Viewing kiwi and tea farms 2 Hours All seasons walking  Visiting water reservoir (Sal)  Visiting rice field

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Gileboom Ecolodge

Tour Type Program Duration Best Time Description

 Walking to Mish-Sere Dasht  Visiting beehives (late May to late July) Mish-Sere  Wild medlar (Kunos) picking Half day All seasons Dasht walking (Late Nov. to late Mar.)  Local vegetables picking (Spring)  Returning back from orange farms, picking orange blossom (Spring)

 Hiking in Sarve-Lat protected area All seasons Chale-Sara  Visiting old hyrcanian jungles Half day (Depending on Hiking weather)  Visiting crocus caspius (Autumn)  Visiting wooden and mud cottages

Visiting:  Diurood historical village Milash Spring, summer, 1 Day  Wild hazelnut farms Waterfall and autumn  Borage farms  Parrotia persica trees  Visiting beehives  Hiking to mud-cottages Merse-Konale  Walking vast terraced tea farms Half day All seasons Hiking  Seeing Khoshke-Lat sluice dam  Swimming in fresh water basins (summer)  Visiting immense view over Caspian Sea  Hiking in Javaher-Dasht summer Javaher-Dasht Spring and region and Somamus hillsides summer 1 Day Summer  Visiting grassland for pasturing local region sheep and horses  Visiting limestone cave  Seeing waterfall

Late Dec. to late  Local trip in orange farm Orange Half day Feb.  Becoming familiar with orange picking Picking  Orange picking Spring, summer, Tours for First day Children and autumn  Tea picking in tea farm Manual Tea 2 days It's not possible to  Rolling and rubbing Processing produce black tea in winter. Only its Second day process can be  Drying the tea leaves

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Gileboom Ecolodge

Tour Type Program Duration Best Time Description

observed.  Drawing

Playing with  Preparing the clay 2 Hours All seasons Clay  Making clay statue

 Walking to Mish-Sere Dasht  Visiting beehives (Late May to late July) Mish-Sere  Wild medlar (Kunos) picking Half day All seasons Dasht walking (Late Nov. to late Mar.)  Local vegetables picking (Spring)  Returning back from orange farms, picking orange blossom (Spring)

Chale-Sara to  Hiking (Siah-Lat to Plat-Kale-Sar) Plat-Kale-Sar All seasons  Seeing Afra waterfall Hiking 1 Day (Depending on weather)  Visiting tea farms and Plat-Kale-Sar (Moderate) village

Khoshka-Sara Hiking All seasons  Visiting Galesh wooden shelter 1 Day (Depending on  Seeing Hachi-Rood river (Semi- weather)  Khoshka-Rood water reservoir difficult)

First day  Moving toward Javaher-Dasht summer Trekking Somamus Peak region (3680 m) Spring and  Staying in rural cottages for the night 2 Days summer (Difficult Second day Trekking)  Ascending Somamus peak & returning back from Javaher-Dasht

Gishar-Kuh Peak  Ascending Gishar-Kuh peak (Sia-Lat to (1350 m) All seasons Gishar-Kuh) 1 Day (Depending on  Javaher-Dasht landscape (Semi- weather)  Visiting immense view over Caspian difficult Sea shore trekking)

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Gileboom Ecolodge

Tour Type Program Duration Best Time Description

Trekking to  Trekking from Sia-Lat to Gishar-Kuh Jeerdashtaan then Jeerdashtaan summer Spring,  Diversity of hyrcanian trees region 1 Day summer, and

autumn  Visiting immense view over Caspian Sea shore (Difficult Trekking)  Seeing vast view over Somamus ridge

First day  Moving toward Javaher-Dasht summer region  Staying in rural cottages for the night Somamus to Lapasar & Second day Javaherdeh Spring and 3 Days  Ascending Somamus peak summer (Difficult  Moving to Lapasar summer region Trekking)  Staying in Lapasar stone caravanserai for the night

Third day  Trekking from Lapasar to Javaherdeh

Watching 2 Hours Fall and winter Observing fishing activities Fishing Water excursions Caspian Sea Depending  Sand play in Ghasem-Abad beach beach and on guests Late May to Fall  Boat Ride swimming free time  Jet ski

Tea Factory Getting familiarized with the process of 3 Hours All seasons Vajargah tea processing (Rahim-Abad)

Industrial Trout Farming

Getting familiarized with: (Sheikh- Zahed- 3 Hours All seasons  Trout farming Mahale,  Fish farming ponds Chaboksar)

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Gileboom Ecolodge

Tour Type Program Duration Best Time Description

Beekeeping Getting familiarized with: (Konale, Late May to Late  Honey production 3 Hours Mish-Sere July  Royal jelly Dasht,  Health benefits of honey Sia-Lat)

Zamene-Ahoo Getting familiarized with different kinds Flower and 2 Hours All seasons of ornamental plants Plant Nursery

“Tirmah Sinza” is a traditional ritual in Tirmah Sinza 4 Hours Oct. 4th Gilak calendar with Amiri singing and folk music

Yalda Night 4 Hours Dec. 21th Yalda Night festival with folk music

Sadeh 4 Hours Jan. 30th Sadeh Celebration with folk music Celebration

Last Wednesday Chaharshanbe Chaharshanbe Suri festival with Folk 4 Hours of the Solar Suri Music Calendar Year

Water Throwing Water throwing festival in Milash Cultural 1 Day Last week of June Events (Abpashan) waterfall Celebration Ghasem- Abadi Noon to Attending Ghasem-Abadi wedding All seasons wedding evening ceremony ceremony  Making cob statue The Artist 2 Hours Jan. 4th Ceremony  The best statue made by the teams will be awarded

Becoming Familiar with handicraft workshops including: Refer to Handicraft &  Pottery (3 hours) the forth All seasons Cultural Tours  Felt making (2 hours) column  Chadorshab weaving (2 hours)  Bamboo weaving (3 hours)

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Gileboom Ecolodge

Tour Type Program Duration Best Time Description

All Seasons Ghasem- except the days Abadi Folk 2 hours Ghasem-Abadi folk music of public Music mourning  Ramsar Cableway  Javaherdeh summer region Depending  Walking at Casino boulevard Recreational Late Mar. to Ramsar on guests  Pahlavi museum Activities late Sep. free time  Ramsar hot springs  Markuh Castle  Dalkhani Forest

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