Country Info
- Baku (Baki)
- Capital
- Azerbaijani Manat (AZM)
- Currency
- 7,771,092
- Population
- AZ
- Country Code
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Travel Blogs from Azerbaijan
Azerbaijan At Last!
The relief to enter the harbor at Baku and then to actually dock and not anchor-off as we half expected was fantastic. We could finally get off the boat! The actual process of getting off took seemingly hours of course and we were through to the ...
Odjezd z Karabachu
Vcera jsem se se vsemi rozloucila, protoze jsem myslela, ze budu vstavat prilis brzy a oni budou jeste spat. Brzy jsem vstala, ale Anna byla vzhuru a delala snidani. Takze jsem rychle pojedla, sbalila si svych pet svestek, svacinu od Anny a vysla jsem do ...
My last stop before the end
I was very sad to leave my beloved Iran, but in a way it is good to see women wearing `normal` clothes again and feel a bit closer to Europe. It was funny to find myself surprised by seeing women displaying their looks and wearing sexy clothes! It is ...
Nahorní Karabach, den druhý
Umysl byt v osm na nadrazi zustal skutecne jen umyslem. Vstala jsem s pul desate, hrala si na verande s detmi a pak s Annou a Narine posnidala. Vladik jel se starsi dcerou do JErevanu do nemocnice. Anna zavolala na nadrazi - autobus jede v 15:30 a v ...
First stop Melbourne
G'day...we made it to Melbourne! It was a fun unevenful trip with beautiful weather. The girls really enjoyed flying on Midwest Airlines with the wide seats and 2 warm chocolate chip ...
Amaras
Dobre se mi spalo, tak jsem se vstavanim nespechala, ale Nara me prisla vzbudit na snidani. Byla jsem prekvapena, ze muzi poji vodku uz takhle poranu. A opet s dojemnymi pripitky. Pantata povida - nechces zavolat domu, ze uz neprijedes? Zustanes tady, ...
Astara - border town
... guess I am very glad to leave noisy and expensive Baku behind! The train left Baku at 8:30 and arrived at the southern tip of Azerbaijan at 15:30. The journey was nice and peaceful. I am still getting used to my new life as a traveller but it is ...
Nahorni Karabach, den treti
Vstavat v 6 rano na autobus nebylo hezke, zvlast kdyz se mi v posteli tak dobre spalo. Cast cesty do Stepanakertu jsem prospala a protoze nakonec jedu se Svetlanou do Mirtuni, prospala jsem i kus cesty tam. V Martuni jsme sly nejdriv k Svetlane domu ...
Finally the long planned trip started
... 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 visa application. I pretended not ...
Bibi Heybat mosque (Baku, Azerbaijan)
... its First Oil Boom at the end of the 19th century, they brought their religious beliefs with them. Although Azerbaijan was traditionally a Muslim country, the country was open and tolerant of other religious practices including Judaism and Christianity. ...
Quba
The night train from Sheki to Baku was hot and unventilated, and smelled like urine. The next morning, with the help of some local Peace Corps workers that I had met on the train, I caught a local bus from the train station to the bus station, ...
Baku
... ;On Sat night I felt well enough to go out to a few bars with a group of 4 Croatian lads I'd met in the Azerbaijan embassy in Tbilisi, A few beers and the Scotland-Italy football match made for a goodnight out for a newfound teatotaler like me. 3 of ...
Lenkoran
... an excellent meal at the restaurant next door: Chicken Lavangi, the first truly delicious food I've had in Azerbaijan. After dinner, I walked around town. Most of the beach area is off-limits due to military presence, but it ...
Sheki
... , was renovated with Norwegian help (perhaps motivated by Thor Heyerdahl's theory that Scandinavian people originally came from Azerbaijan?) -- was small but interesting. After viewing the exhibits, I slowly meandered back down through the village ...
Où sont les chameaux ???
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 ...
Made it!
... and in slightly cooler air again. Today we visited the old Khan (King)’s Palace, the local bazaar, an Albanian church (Azerbaijan used to be called Caucasian Albania, completely unrelated to Albania in Europe), and some old fortress ruins. It was a ...
Xinaliq
I wasn't sure what to expect as the jeep left for Xinaliq. The relatively new road, which has made the remote mountain village much easier to access than before, had already begun to deteriorate. As the jeep forged ahead along the bumpy road, we ...
Km 5534, Baku
Hmm, ich weiss gar nicht, wo ich anfangen soll zu erzählen. Die letzten paar Tage hatte ich wirklich seehr viel erlebt! Ich habe Tbilisi am 13. Mai verlassen und wollte unbedingt noch ein paar Tage in Georgien bleiben, da ich noch nicht genug von ...
Baku
... of money around without a second thought, inflating costs greatly. I was told (by an American currently living in Baku) that Azerbaijan makes 100 million dollars a day from BP alone. Can that be right? Where does all of the money go? In ...
via Lerik to Kalaxan and back
... -- and then back again. Why? I had heard that although there aren't any particular tourist attractions, this area of Azerbaijan is remarkably pretty, and I wanted to see it. As we headed out of Lenkoran toward the mountains, I was ...
My reluctant departure from Rajasthan
Day 90 Mon 6th Feb 2006 My reluctant departure from Rajasthan Last night was big time cold! We stayed up talking till around 10.30, Ursula was a great source of useful information, it was great finding out about her little adventure around the world. ...
Black Gold
... the past – using decoys. Low and behold we turn on the news to find Hillary Clinton was in town to discuss peace talks between Azerbaijan and Armenia. All became clear! We are now heading off into the Caucasus Mountains before heading into ...
Zaqatala
... deal more serious than the grinning young Georgian soldiers). Although the Caucusus landscape remained unchanged when I crossed into Azerbaijan, I didn't see any more horse-drawn carts on the road (while I'd noticed many of them heading from Telavi ...
Across Azerbaijan and the Caspian Sea
... over into virtual ethnic cleansing, until a cease-fire agreement was signed in May 1994. However around 13% of Azerbaijan's territory remained under Armenian occupation, with around 800,000 Azeris left homeless or displaced. Today Australia's travel ...
Boomtown Baku
... in the early 1990s that left around 1/7 of the Azeri population displaced, the issue has become a pillar of independent Azerbaijan's national identity. Ever since both countries have been teetering on the brink of renewed conflict, and all Azeri males ...
Week 1 in Baku: the good, the bad and the quirky
After 1 week wandering about Baku city, and grilling local real estate agents for the local goss on everything from beer to bikes, I am slowly getting the feel for living in Baku city. Here are some initial thoughts of the place... The good ...
From Gandzasar to Sos
Getting up at 6am to get on the bus was not at all nice. Especially when the bed I ve slept in was so comfortable. I ve slept during most of the journey to Stepanakert, and seeing I am going on to Martuni with Svetlana, I ve slept for most of the that ...
Last week in aZERbaijan...
... them thinking it would make their day...but she said she had just made some last week....jeez....okay, I'm stopping now.... Last day in Azerbaijan, did a great day trip out to Five Finger Mountain, north of Baku, with Fariz and his wife, son and ...