Maiden's Tower Baku

Downtown Baku, Baku , Azerbaijan

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    Evrovision, here we come!

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    Azerbaijan had been the country we'd been most looking forward to. Partly because we decided to go to the Eurovision Songfestival next year, and then the Azeri's won, and we'd already booked the tickets for this summer!

    Also, we'd both never been on a sleeper train, so our journey to Baku was an exciting one, much more exciting than those …

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    When good nights go bad

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    ... with it's old crumbling doors, cobble stone streets and medieval feel. The highlight of the old city, and debatably, Baku, was the Maiden's tower, a strangely shaped thick walled tower looking over the city and dating back to 7000BC. Old... Many theories ...

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    Across Azerbaijan and the Caspian Sea

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    ... proper, the change is incredible. There are impressively ornate older buildings along the seafront boulevarde. Pass the historic Maiden Tower, surrounded by a flock of swallows, then the massive and ornate Dom Soviet Government building, and then ...

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    Evrovision, here we come!

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    ... 40 degrees, we did a short tour around the newer city, then found the old city, where we did all the touristy stuff: the Maiden's tower (so called for its impenetrability or all the virgins that jumped of, no one knows..) and the palace of the ...