Qeshm barge making workshop is a place that has many stories to tell. "Barge" for southerners is not just a type of ship, barge in the south of the country is a living concept that breathes, can be seen, heard and even talked to. The concept of the barge is linked to the captain! People in every part of the world have different ideas about captains, because different stories are told about captains.
In the imagination of us Iranians, the captain is usually a green-haired man who wears a southern local dishash and wears a cap to protect himself from the intense heat of the sun. Our image of the captain is complete when we see the southern man at the helm of the barge, when he hits the heart of the sea with his always-companion friend, and the sound of the barge's horn joins the sound of the sea waves, creating a common symphony of man and nature.
A barge is a type of nautical device that is larger than a boat and smaller than a ship. Barges only swim in the Persian Gulf, the Oman Sea and the Indian Ocean. Perhaps the reason that the barge is connected with the soul and soul of the people of southern Iran is the commitment of old ships to this region! In this page of Alibaba's tourism magazine, we travel with these lovely ships and their builders.
Qeshm barge making workshop has a story to tell as much as a Shahnameh!
A unique lifestyle and thousands of stories and narrations are going on in Qeshm barge making workshop. In some parts of the workshop, you will see young barges in various stages of completion, impatiently waiting to hit the water and begin their sea adventures with a captain they have yet to meet.
In another corner of the barge-making workshop, you can see tired and worn-out ships that have said goodbye to the sea for a short time and have come to the workshop for repair and rejuvenation. When you listen to the talks of the captains of the barges, you will see that every crack in the body of the old barge has a story, once there was a storm and the waves broke the barge's timbers, another time a rock hit the ship from the water, and sometimes even big fish got into the body of the sea barge!
When you arrive at the workshop, it is as if you have traveled in time and gone to the time of Noah. When God told Noah and his companions to build the ark like this and like that. Noah obeyed God's command, even when it didn't rain, he had faith and built an ark.
I suggest that when you get to the boathouse, you do an internet search for the story of Noah and read the story again in that setting. With this, you will feel like you have traveled in time and you will hear the hammer and nails of Noah's friends and you would like to join them.
The stories of the workshop are not over yet, and the main story begins when you talk to the ghouls or ghouls. I mean the master craftsmen who make the lance. Those who have been engaged in boat building for many years and learned this profession from their fathers and teach it to their sons.
What is more interesting is that the plan of no lanji is drawn on any paper and everything is imprinted in the minds of professors of Jalaf. They tell the young people what they have in mind, and the young novices make the langes by following the instructions of the elders of this art. In Qeshm barge-making workshop, all are Noah's friends and there is no wrongdoing boy among them!
Names of Qeshm barge making workshop
Goran barge-making workshop is the largest barge-making center in Qeshm Island. In other parts, such as Laft and Kaveh industrial area, there are workshops that operate at a more limited level than Goran in the field of barge making. What is known as the tourist attraction and entertainment of Qeshm and is more famous is the Goran workshop. Several villages in different regions of Iran are called Goran. The meaning of this name is derived from Gebar and it was originally called "Gebran" and changed over time. In the past, Zoroastrians were said to have fire temples and were so-called fire worshipers.
Barge-making workshops are not as famous as other places of interest in Qeshm. Many tourists of Qeshm do not know that this attraction exists and have not visited it. They return and miss the opportunity to hang out with warm-hearted southern sailors.
Of course, I'm glad that you are familiar with this attraction and have searched about it and come with me in the Ozhan agency travelogue. Please be among the tourists who include visiting this unique attraction in their travel plan to Qeshm!
What people work in the Goran barge workshop?
Lanj-making is one of the main sources of income in the south of the country, that's why when you arrive at the workshop, most of the people you see are wearing authentic southern clothes. If luck is with you and you reach Qeshm barge making workshop at a good time, you will hear the sound of reeds, oud, drums and cymbals. Even if there is a hundred-year-old sadness in a person's heart, hearing these sounds and the happy music of the south, he will pack his bags and leave his heart!
There are no training courses in the barge making workshops. Only in some cases, domestic and foreign marine engineers come to the field to supervise the construction process of ships (usually larger barges). Normally, the first and last supervisors of boat building projects are master craftsmen who have become masters from apprentices and workers and have turned their hair white in the boat building mill!
In 2011, Qeshm barge-making workshop was registered as one of Iran's handicraft centers in the UNESCO World Heritage List, and this made Iran's barge-making more famous. After that, in 2016, a museum was opened in Goran region, where the history of the sea, seafaring and barge building is narrated. More interestingly, in this museum, tourists can get to know the principles of fishing with a tour in the boat, and this is very attractive for them.
How is the construction of lances done in the workshop?
Barge-making was more prosperous in the past, but it was damaged due to economic problems, and now the speed of work in the workshops has decreased. The map of the barges is drawn in 3D on the smartest computer ever. I mean the mind of Jalaf, who has been cultivated for many years in the field of drawing a lance and can identify with the most accurate details which bolts and nuts should be used in which part of the lance.
Each barge takes six months to two years to build, depending on its features. To make them, teak, mesquite and kanar wood are used, of course, the main material in Qeshm barge making workshop is teak wood and other woods are used less. All these woods are trees found in Qeshm Island.
If you stay in the area for a while and listen to the words of students and masters, you will realize that Langsazi has a unique encyclopedia with hundreds of words and terms. For example, today's barges are usually built with a motor, and it is rare for a barge to move only with oars and sails. Engines are usually imported from Japan and are of high quality, but a special type of engine known as "Pakistan" is made in Pakistan and installed on some barges.
The names of the types of lances
An important part of the encyclopedia of launching is dedicated to the names of different launchings. Knowing their types is not without grace. At least the advantage is that you can prove to the sailors and sailors of the Qeshm barge-making workshop that you know something about the story of the barge and, as the southerners say, "you have such things yourself"!
Samaj, Batil: Fishing lances
Hori: a passenger barge with a capacity of about ten people
Shuai: a type of barge that used to move with sails and oars in the past, but today they install an engine on it.
Baghle: A lanyard that has a curved structure and is used for carrying
Bagareh: Kangan area barges used for fishing with nets
Sambuk and Jalbut: cargo barges for loads weighing between 5 and 100 tons
Boom: Large cargo and passenger barge
What is the difference between each of the types of lances and how to recognize which type of lances we see in the workshop are out of the scope of public information and needs the expertise of the warm-blooded captain of the south!
The best time to visit Qeshm barge making workshop
There is no specific time to visit the Goran barge making workshop, but the workshops are usually active from morning to evening and the best time to visit them is in the middle of the day. You probably know that the southern sun is scorching in the summer and when you walk in the sun, you feel the blood boiling in your veins! If you have chosen this season to travel to Qeshm, you can only leave the accommodation at night, when the boat-making workshops do not work.
Winter and autumn are the best seasons to travel to the south of the country and Qeshm Island, and the only problem is their relatively short days. Of course, if you set aside the middle hours of the day to visit the barge workshop, the problem will be solved. During these hours, the weather is clear and you can see everything, and the Qeshm barge workshop is active, and you will touch the treasure that is made possible by the pain of the barge makers.
Where is Qeshm barge making workshop?
Goran village is located 75 km from the center of Qeshm and on the west coast of this island. This village is close to the mangrove forests, and you can devote one day of Qeshm entertainment to visit the rare mangrove forests and the barge-making workshop.
To reach this village, you can use the route of Qeshm airport and the route of Laft village. To get to Qeshm Airport, you must first get to Zaytoun Beach Park and continue on the same straight road until you reach Qeshm Airport.
Then move towards Soheili village and continue on your way until you reach Goran. There is also a 44 km road from Laft village towards Goran. There are also barge-making workshops in Laft village, but they are not as big as the Goran workshop, although there are other attractions in this village, such as Laft castle and windmills.
Access methods to Goran barge making workshop
Goran village does not have many tourist facilities, and maybe that is the reason why the barge-making workshop is considered one of the unknown attractions of Qeshm Island. The best way to visit Goran village is to use a private car. If you have traveled to Qeshm with a tour, you can also visit this area according to the plans that the tour considers. It is also possible to rent a private car or a taxi to go to Goran village and see the barge making workshop.
Goran village does not have accommodation facilities; Some villagers rent their houses to travelers, but due to the lack of amenities and tourism, most people return to the center of the island after visiting the tourist attractions of Qeshm and Mangrove Forest to spend the night in hotels and residences.
last word; At Qeshm barge-making workshop, you will feel the urge to sea
Seeing dozens of barges under construction or repair makes one excited and wants to take the helm and hit the heart of the Persian Gulf. Some passenger dinghies are superbly built and are a complete work of art. Qeshm barge making workshop is a tourist attraction that cannot be found in any other region of the world. If there are also workshops in the countries bordering the Oman Sea and the Persian Gulf, the captains and warm-blooded sailors of Qeshm Island do not work in them! When traveling to Qeshm, do not miss visiting this mine of art and energy at any cost.
