IRNA Any tourist will be fascinated with travel to Makhunik Village, on eastern Iran, by seeing life-style of the people in the absolute nature. Located near the border of Afghanistan in Iran, Makhunik is about 300 years old and until recently lacked an access road. The etymology of the word Makhunik is of interests. The original form of the ...

IFP - Makhunik, also known as the land of Lilliputians, is a unique village in eastern Iran which dates back to hundreds of years ago. Located in Doreh rural district of Sarbisheh County, South Khorasan Province, Makhunik is widely known as one of the seven strange villages in the world. Tourists visit the village to see the dwarf residents ...

BBC | Shervin Abdolhamidi: In the first part of Jonathan Swifts book Gullivers Travels, Lemuel Gulliver washes ashore on the island country of Lilliput, where he encounters the Lilliputians, who stand barely taller than 15cm. While Swifts Lilliput is merely a fantasy, a comparable village exists in the eastern extremities of Iran. Up until around ...

Makhunik is a village in South Khorasan province, just 20 km from the Iranian border with Afghanistan. The village is popularly known as the "village of lilliputians," and although you wont meet dwarfs there now, locals say they really used to exist. If you take a look atMakhunik fromthe nearestmountain, it will remind you a meadow dotted withmushrooms....

[caption id="attachment_97781" align="alignright" width="234"] The mummified dwarf found in 2005[/caption] Iranian ancient village in the south of Khorasan province, known as Makhunik, has astonished many people who are fond of visiting a real dwarf city. Located bout 100km east of Shahdad district in Kerman (Khorasans neighboring province), the ...