Colorful houses are seen in a steep slope of Filband, a mountainous village adjacent to Babol in northern Iran, Mazandaran province, on June 23, 2017.

With an altitude of 2300 meters above the sea level, the country-side village even stands above the encircling blanket clouds. It remains abandoned roughly seven months a year due to its icy cold weather. Visitors to the hard-to-access land are generally astound with abundant lush greenish sceneries and more notably its hospitable people.  (PHOTO: Erfan Kouchari)

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