--- title: "Valam, Iran – what is there, and how you get there | Mixroutes" description: "Valam, Iran, Iran: Valam is a village in Panj Hezareh Rural District of the Central District in Behshahr County, Mazandaran province, Iran. Nearby…" url: "https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/valam" markdown: "https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/valam.md" image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/52/%D8%B2%D9%85%DB%8C%D9%86_%D9%87%D8%A7%DB%8C_%DA%A9%D8%B4%D8%A7%D9%88%D8%B1%D8%B2%DB%8C_%D8%B1%D9%88%D8%B3%D8%AA%D8%A7%DB%8C_%D9%88%D9%84%D9%85.jpg" --- Village in Mazandaran province, Iran # Valam, Iran Valam is a village in Panj Hezareh Rural District of the Central District in Behshahr County, Mazandaran province, Iran. ![Valam, Iran](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/52/%D8%B2%D9%85%DB%8C%D9%86_%D9%87%D8%A7%DB%8C_%DA%A9%D8%B4%D8%A7%D9%88%D8%B1%D8%B2%DB%8C_%D8%B1%D9%88%D8%B3%D8%AA%D8%A7%DB%8C_%D9%88%D9%84%D9%85.jpg) Valam, Iran · Wikimedia Commons The place Valam is a village in Panj Hezareh Rural District of the Central District in Behshahr County, Mazandaran province, Iran. Adapted from [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valam%2C_Iran), CC BY-SA 4.0. What is there ## Worth seeing in and around Valam, Iran One place within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name. 1. Shohadaye Ashrafol-Belad Behshahr Bridge Shohadaye Ashrafol-Belad Behshahr Bridge, also known as Gelvard Bridge, is a steel through arch bridge in Behshahr County, Mazandaran Province, Iran. It is the largest bridge in northern Iran, located on the Valam River, which is the catchment area of the Gelvard Dam. 600 m · Iran's second metal through arch bridge in Behshahr, Mazandaran province · [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shohadaye_Ashrafol-Belad_Behshahr_Bridge) Ranked by the number of language editions of Wikipedia with an article on each, from Wikidata; the sentences are the openings of those articles, CC BY-SA 4.0. Go there ## Getting to Valam, Iran **Airports:** Mehrabad (THR), 232 km · Imam Khomeini (IKA), 259 km · Payam (PYK), 268 km\ - Tehran → Valam, Iran 223 km · quickest by road, 5h 27m · $26–36 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/tehran-to-valam-iran) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Tehran&to=Valam%2C+Iran) - Karaj → Valam, Iran 252 km · quickest by road, 6h 9m · $30–42 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/karaj-to-valam-iran) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Karaj&to=Valam%2C+Iran) - Isfahan → Valam, Iran 473 km · quickest by road, 10h 25m · $60–85 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/isfahan-to-valam-iran) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Isfahan&to=Valam%2C+Iran) - From anywhere The planner compares every way there from wherever you are. [Plan a trip](https://www.mixroutes.com/?to=Valam%2C%20Iran) Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds. Not yet researched ## No local-transport research exists yet for Valam, Iran Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Valam, Iran. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more. The nearest places where the work is done 1. [Sheki (Şəki)](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/sheki) AZ 10 ways of moving, 46 sources 758 km 2. [Yeghegnadzor and the Vayots Dzor valley](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/yeghegnadzor) AM 9 ways of moving, 32 sources 807 km 3. [Gyumri](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/gyumri) AM 12 ways of moving, 47 sources 969 km 4. [Gori](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/gori) GE 10 ways of moving, 16 sources 1,015 km 5. [Vardzia and the Javakheti plateau](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/vardzia) GE 12 ways of moving, 57 sources 1,041 km If you know how people move in Valam, Iran – the stand, the rule, the fare – [tell us](https://www.mixroutes.com/report?key=blog%7Cvalam&title=Valam%2C+Iran&sub=Field+notes&back=%2Fnotes%2Fvalam), and the note gets an entry. Around it ## Next door to Valam, Iran - [Rudbar Yakhkesh](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/rudbar-yakhkesh) village in Iran 1.2 km - [Kar Kam](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/kar-kam) village in Iran 3.5 km - [Chalek Deh](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/chalek-deh) village in Iran 2.3 km - [Mohammadabad, Behshahr](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/mohammadabad-behshahr) village in Iran 3.9 km - [Shirdari](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/shirdari) village in Iran 1.1 km [The place page for Valam, Iran](https://www.mixroutes.com/places/valam) [All the notes](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes) [Every note on Iran](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes#c-IR) --- This is the markdown version of https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/valam, for search crawlers and AI assistants. The HTML page is the canonical copy. Mixroutes is made by Lascade LLC, Sharjah Media City, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates. Index of every page: https://www.mixroutes.com/llms.txt