Dastgerdān

Dastgerdan lies in the desert country north of Tabas, near Eshqabad on the eastern side of the Dasht-e Kavir. Here the Iranian plateau's dry basins separate small settlements from the mountains and oases of Khorasan. The great desert to the west has broad salt flats as well as tracts of sand and barren ground, a difficult landscape for travellers between the settled regions around its margins.