Country Info
- Baku (Baki)
- Capital
- Azerbaijani Manat (AZM)
- Currency
- 7,771,092
- Population
- AZ
- Country Code
Baku Slideshow
Top Hotels in Baku
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Park Inn Baku
62 reviews -
AF Hotel-Aqua Park Baku
11 reviews -
Holiday Inn Baku Airport
18 reviews -
Park Hyatt Baku
23 reviews -
Park Hyatt Baku
39 reviews
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Ramada Baku
1 review
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Best Eastern Absheron Baku
7 reviews
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Palace Hotel Baku
1 review
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Grand Hotel Europe Baku
10 reviews
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12inn Burvar Baku
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Excelsior Hotel Baku
20 reviews
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Radisson SAS Plaza Hotel Baku
13 reviews
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Ambassador Hotel Baku
4 reviews
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The Crown Hotel Baku
9 reviews
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Azcot Hotel Baku
16 reviews
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Premier Hotel Baku
4 reviews
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Empire Hotel Baku
10 reviews
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Hotel Ambiance Baku
3 reviews
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Diplomat Hotel Baku
5 reviews
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Serin Hotel Baku
8 reviews
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Hale Kai Baku
40 reviews
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Sultan Inn Boutique Hotel Baku
11 reviews
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Apsheron Hotel Baku
2 reviews
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The Boutique Palace Hotel Baku
12 reviews
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Ascot Lodge Baku
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The Horizon Hotel Baku
1 review
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The Lodge Baku
2 reviews
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Austin Hotel Baku
16 reviews
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Azerbaijan Hotel Baku
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Best Eastern Icheri Shaher Baku
5 reviews
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Best Eastern Delfin Baku
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Karat Inn Baku
2 reviews
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Red Lion Hotel Baku
5 reviews
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Khazar Golden Beach Hotel & Resort Baku
3 reviews
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Crescent Beach Baku
5 reviews
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Meridian Hotel Baku
2 reviews
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Best Eastern Intourist Baku
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Metropol the Hotel Baku
8 reviews
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Best Eastern Hotel Irshad Baku
3 reviews
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Musado Hotel Baku
1 review
Baku
Travel Blogs from Baku, Azerbaijan
Land of Fire and Wind
This is a top pick! ... the climate in Azerbaijan, but at the same time sent winds whipping through the streets. Exploring the fire of Azerbaijan further, I visited Gobustan, with its small mud volcanoes burping methane into the windy air. The site overlooked the blue-grey ...
Meet Andre
This is a top pick! I met Andre in downtown Baku, where he was playing accordion. Stopping for a while to listen, I sat with the local park cat. On another day, I also stopped to see Andre. Andre said: "my father said if I play accordion, God will always ...
Music Borat might listen to
This is a top pick! ... Although the poverty rate has been reduced in recent years, the promise of widespread wealth from development of Azerbaijan's energy sector remains largely unfulfilled. https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/aj.html ...
When good nights go bad
This is a top pick! ... didn't lock and the promised hot water was non-existent, but it could have been worse, I justified. I only had 3 days in Baku, the Azerbaijan capital, and didn't waste any time. I picked up my day pack and launched into the streets. Baku was a town ...
showers!
Spent the day in Baku and met up with the Gordons in the early evening. We had showers! I was disappointed to find that most of my tan was ingrained dirt. Graeme took us out for a curry and few beers and we returned to sleep in beds! ...
getting lost on the metro
Chris didn't feel great, so Damien and I went into town to investigate the ferry, and while we were relieved to discover there was one the next day, we were surprised to find they were after over $600 for the privilege. We got a bit separated and lost ...
sense of foreboding
Well, it's taken all day, but we've made it onto the boat. This is one dodgy affair. Happily the few other passengers on this filthy freighter are mostly British, travelling around the world on motorbikes. Everything is filthy, and there is ...
aserite juures
Lend Riiast Bakuusse oli üks veidramaid minu senises elus, kui hüplemine Chennaist Colombosse välja jätta. Kõigepealt lasti terve trobikond rahvast lennukisse, aeti siis mõne aja pärast jälle välja (hea, et me veel peale ei jõudnud) ja ...
Evaluating the stans
Salam, hm, bevor ich morgen Baku verlasse hier noch eine Bewertung der *stans. Das Essen war ziemlich enttaeuschend, Schaschlyk, Schaschlyk, Schaschlyk. Wenn es lecker gemacht waere waere es ja ok, aber es ist auch ziemlich ungewuerzt. Ich hatte ...
Baku
... the lounge where they offer me a cold beer while waiting for my visa. After 45 minutes I finally get my passport back and enter Azerbaijan for the first time. A taxi driver drives me to the hotel, and I was kind of relieved when I arrived. The ...
Ferry From Hell, Part II
... :-) Am naechsten Morgen, Sonntag Morgen, nach 56h auf See (statt 18h) haben wir doch tatsaechlich im Hafen von Baku angelegt! Die Einreise nach Azerbaidjan war ziemlich easy, nicht einmal ein Zollformular mussten wir ausfuellen! Land 120 erreicht, ...
Fire Tempel
... daher leicht dauerhaft brannte. Inzwischen ist das Gas hier versiegt und muss von einer Pipeline versorgt werden:-) In der Gegend um Baku herum gibt es recht viele Oelpumpen und teilweise fliesst das Oel auch aus dem Boden. Das Meer hier (und auch die ...
azerbaijan is a twisted place
... language with Elmir, armed teenager and life long Man U fan. We eventually got in, with 3 days to get on a ferry out of Baku. Chris had to swerve to avoid a Lada that pulled out in front of us. Despite having kept his cool and avoided a ...
From desert to polar in 2 hours
... .... what she did in the end and then we got nice 21 degrees. The new crew came on board and we took off from Baku in direction of Singapore.... but somebody had played on the airconditioning and we ended up with freezing 10 degrees, I put on my pullover ...
Baku, Azerbaijan
... 3 of the guys on the tour were celebrating their b-day on the same days...quite amazing!! "Reverse roles..." - Shameki to Baku - 118km In Azerbaijan the roles seem to have reversed and instead of us taking pictures of the locals the locals are taking ...
Í Baku
1. maiKomum a hotelid undir morgun og fengum nadarsamlegast fellda nidur dagskra fram ad hadegi. Eg svaf eins og rotud til kl. 10. vaert og rott an thess ad fatta ad herberginu tharf ad laesa innan fra med lykli. Er greinilega ordin von vestraenum ...
Leaving Baku
... ) haben gereicht, es gibt hier zum Glueck nicht viele Museen (ok, es gibt ein paar, aber recht uninteressante). Baku wurde im 9 Jahrhundert gegruendet und wurde im 12 Jahrhundert Hauptstadt Azerbaidschans. In 1872 wurde Oel kommerziel gefoerdert und ...
Baku-final station-changed trip go back to Germany
Chached my trip. I go straight from Crimea to Germany, Purschwitz-City to my parents house. End of the trip. Visit of the fire temple and fire mountain near Baku as well as the mud volcanos and stone-age paintings near Gobustan 60km away from ...
Welcome Back to the Real World
DAY 27. AUGUST 28. BAKU Welcome back to the real world I like Baku. I like Azerbaijan. I would like any place after leaving Turkmenistan, even Baghdad but Baku is cool. At 6am we got a bang on our cabin door and a lady turned on the light and asked ...
A Wedding in Azerbaijan
... of my time in the cabin, since I was troubled by a mild motion sickness. 18 hours later we arrived Baku (population 1.7M), the capital of Azerbaijan. There were quite a few huge oil-industry related structures along the way. Arriving at 3am in a new ...
astara to baku and around
... photos and trinkets. eventually they let me in. go figure what they had me waiting there for????????????????????? novelty factor perhaps. baku is a quite modern oil boom town and its a nice change after iran to see girls getting about ...
Suriname Binnenland
... kick drives the boat. We move just ahead of a small rain storm which only adds to the mystique of the watery graveyard. We arrive at Baku. Dara hears the boat as her hut is very close to the water and comes to greet us and help us settle in to her ...
Baku
After a day driving across the beautifully varied, but increasingly barren landscape we arrived in Baku, the capital of Azerbaijan. We're due to stay here for two days. The Lonely Planet draws your attention to the crude oil seeping out of the ground ...
Ferry Frustrating
... the glorious president. We went straight from the train to the port where we to catch the ferry across the Caspian Sea to Baku, capital of Azerbaijan. In the process we got to experience Turkmenistan at it's finest. By the time we got to the port it ...
