Baku, Azerbaijan Travel Blogs

Land of Fire and Wind
Jan 25, 2008 (19 photos)

... 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
Jan 28, 2008 (2 photos)

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 provide."

Music Borat might listen to
Oct 1, 2008 (5 photos)

... 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 Another ...

Azerbaijan Photos
Dec 22, 2004 (16 photos)

Some photos of Azerbaijan.

When good nights go bad
Sep 16, 2002 (25 photos)

... 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 which had ...

showers!
Jul 3, 2009

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
Jul 4, 2009

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 on ...

sense of foreboding
Jul 5, 2009

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 ...

Evaluating the stans
Jun 16, 2008 (1 photos)

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
Nov 6, 2008 (5 photos)

... 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
Jun 15, 2008 (28 photos)

... :-) 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, ...

azerbaijan is a twisted place
Jul 2, 2009

... 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 ...

Baku
Jul 25, 2008

McDonalds and Mexx

My last stop before the end
Sep 11, 2006 (10 photos)

... the country either as I found the huge, modern international airport of Tehran practically deserted when I checked in for my flight to Baku. About Baku...I am loving Baku! It is a beautiful city, with nice modern shops, fast internet, nice cafes and I ...

Baku, Azerbaijan
Aug 19, 2008 (21 photos)

... 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 ...

Azerbaijan
Oct 7, 2006

... get a visa for the next country, but fortunately the Brits don't have to so I get to spend the day wandering around town. Baku is a British (BP) and American (Exxon) oil town so has a far wider range of shops and restaurants than you might expect in the ...

Finally the long planned trip started
Apr 12, 2006 (21 photos)

It is quite thrilling to write the first entry for my long awaited adventure. My first experience in Baku might be considered a signal for what awaited me in Azerbaijan. One of the officers working in the airport asked for bribery in order to speed up my ...

Leaving Baku
Jun 16, 2008 (65 photos)

... 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 ...

Azerbaijan At Last!
Jul 24, 2009 (2 photos)

... get off the boat! The actual process of getting off took seemingly hours of course and we were through to the Customs in Baku. Fun and games ensued with Pete in particular taking the brunt of the wrath of a couple of 'Jobs-worth' officials with lots of ...

Baku-final station-changed trip go back to Germany
Oct 10, 2006 (8 photos)

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 Baku.

Welcome Back to the Real World
Aug 29, 2005 (1 photos)

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
Sep 11, 2006 (15 photos)

... 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 ...

Baku
Sep 11, 2004

My connecting flight went through here!

astara to baku and around
Jan 19, 2007 (5 photos)

... 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 ...

Baku
Jun 26, 2006 (10 photos)

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 and ...

Suriname Binnenland
Nov 2, 2005 (16 photos)

... 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 hut. ...

Baku
Nov 14, 2007 (82 photos)

... of information in Warkworth.   Heading out of Tbilisi about a week later, the trees and hills disappeared as I rode across the Azerbaijan border out onto the flatness of the desert.   The first night out there I found a nice bit of grass a ...

Où sont les chameaux ???
Nov 17, 2008

Salut à Tous, Me voila point trop dépaysé dans ce djan qui a stan traîné à venir (eh oui, le premier projet de voyage ici date de 2005, souvenez-vous, mais à l'époque j'avais préferé vous assommer avec des chinoiseries sans contrepéteries. Il est a noter ...

Dubai Airport
Nov 4, 2005

This was a very funny experience in Dubai airport, for not having a confirmed ticket to Baku. Spent 7 hours at the airport with it and finally solved 30 mins before the flight and caught the flight interestingly after closing the bording. But lost a ...

Mr & Mrs R: Baku On Tour
Oct 20, 2004

... R scoured the pages of the in-flight magazine of their Monarch airways charter flight for additional information about Azerbaijan and its capital city Baku .   Unfortunately the country seemed to be missing from the magazine's map, and only a plethora of ...