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Tehran, the capital of Iran, has got several interesting spots that attract culture-oriented tourists. During your Iran travel excursion, make sure you include Darband foothill area at the North of the city when you visit Tehran. There are more than a dozen of restaurants both indoor and outdoor in a cool pleasant valley where a lot of life and culture can be experienced first hand.

Visit Tehran Foothills

Some Tehrani people spend their weekend, Thursdays and Fridays, at the foothills of Tehran. There are several mountain tracking and hiking pathways where people go for exercising and spending a sportive weekend. When you visit Tehran and happen to be there during weekend, remember to pay a visit to Darband area, which is one of the most popular pathways with lots of restaurants in it.

Many who don’t want to go hiking, take their lunch or dinner in some of Darband restaurants to enjoy their traditional Iranian meals in a pleasing setting where the temperature is cooler, pollution doesn’t exist, sound of running water is heard form the river and shady outdoor tables invite you to dine.

As any health conscious beverage drinker will know, rooibos tea is one of the most effective and natural teas available, with no caffeine and a wide range of health benefits to be enjoyed in every cup. Grown in South Africa, with the scientific name of Aspalathus linearis, rooibos means ‘red bush’ in the local Afrikaans dialect. This tea is known for its powerful antioxidants and health properties which are also found in regular Camellia sinensis tea plants, such as polyphenols, the antioxidants that protect against cell damage and counteract diseases such as age-related decline, cancer and heart disease. Rooibos does not contain caffeine however, which makes it even more effective as a healthy immune booster.

Additional health benefits of rooibos include far lower tannin levels compared to fully oxidized black tea or un-oxidized green tea leaves. This tea also contains a number of phenolic compounds, such as flavanols, flavones, flavanones, and dihydrochalcones. Rooibos is known to assist with a wide range of health problems, including nervous tension, allergies and digestive problems. In Africa the tea is used medicinally to treat symptoms ranging from infantile colic to allergies, asthma and dermatological problems.

From a small business to a share holder, this is the biggest business transformation that one can ever try. Stock market can make you richer in just one day, but it can bring you so much burden if you are lacking information on what a stock market is. Especially this time that we are battling a global financial crisis, knowledge in investing in a stock market should be properly applied to avoid downfall of the business. For beginners, it is a must that you know the terminologies and features of a stock market.

To define the term, stock market is a public market for the trading of company stock and derivatives at an agreed price. They are securities listed on a stock exchange as well as those only traded privately. It is a venue where company stocks and shares are traded, bought and sold, just like a supermarket. One of its features is that, the liquidity that an exchange provides enables investors to quickly and easily sell securities. Stock market is one of the most important sources for a company to raise money.