Country Info
- Baku (Baki)
- Capital
- Azerbaijani Manat (AZM)
- Currency
- 7,771,092
- Population
- AZ
- Country Code
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Travel Blogs from Azerbaijan
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Ca 5 rätters middag på Caravan, varje rätt bestod av ett antal mindre rätter som avslutades men kaka och te. En delav rätterna var riktigt goda. Till detta dracks det Xridalan (lokal öl) god. Det sägs att köpmännen som rest på sidenvägen ...
Le Haut-Karabakh - fin
... faisait partie du grand royaume d'Arménie qui s'est étendu sur une large partie du Caucase, et en particulier sur presque tout l'Azerbaijan. Il y a bien longtemps... Mais aussi sur ce que sont aujourd'hui la Géorgie, l'Irak, l'Iran, la Syrie, et ...
Sheki
After 2 weeks in Georgia finally arrived in Azerbaijan. The boarder crossing was painless then after a couple of hours in the truck arrived in Sheki. Firstly visited the Palace of Shaki Khans with it's beautifully detailed interior paintings - ...
Bridging the Gap
... Azerbaijan. When I reached the border, we all had to disembark from the bus and walk across the bridge to get into Azerbaijan. Given the relations between Armenia and Azerbaijan, I was a little nervous since I had an Armenia stamp and visa in my ...
Şəki
Nabran, then Xacmaz, then Xudat, then Nabran.
... some lovely pastries and we spoke for a while. She invited me round to her house on my birthday, in XAGMAZ, a different region of Azerbaijan. It's my birthday! As it turned to 12, they put on happy birthday and all the workers threw me in the air for ...
Photo..? Da..?
... we're in such a situation, we stubbornly stick out our thumbs to upcoming traffic, and wait and see what happens. As Azerbaijan is a nice, civilized, muslim country, we found a hitch within five minutes! A nice mini-truck driver was going the right way; ...
It begun!
... and very homely. I stopped spending my time indoors and with the well-off English speaking students. I wanted to experience the Azerbaijan i came here for... i love meeting new people, grow a pair steve and try learn some azeri Every day after i ...
Suraxanı
Baku
16/10
Ce matin, on m'a refusé de visiter un village, parce que trop proche de l'Arménie, dont les snipers tirent de temps en temps sur les gens ici... L'Azerbaidjan n'a rien ā voir avec l'Iran, męme si ethniquement ils sont quatre fois plus ā vivre en ...
Baku - Qusar
Hello. Now I am planning to travel to the south part of Azerbaijan which will take part of my life from 10 till 15 ...
Mərdəkan
Qobustan
Ish been än Gobistanare
Igår eftermiddag han vi med en guidad tur i gamla stan, där bland annat var vi på The Palace of the Shirvan Shahs, (kostade 2 Manat för foto). Kanske inte så mycket att se men en bra guid blev det mer intressant, när man förstod vad som var ...
Rebuilding
... buildings and villages up- if not, things can just simmer. Shushi was once one of the main cultural centers of Armenia and Azerbaijan. Now it's a city in name only, holding only 1500 more people than my village in Kazakhstan (for memory's sake, that ...
Into the hills with Jackie Chan
PHOTOS TO FOLLOW LATER Left Baku with a German guy, Felix, and a Japanese guy, Yosuke, to head for the hill town of Lahic. It was 3 hours by minibus and sadly at the halfway stop we saw a big brown bear caged and looking very bored. There were also loads ...
Title
Hey, what's up. This is just a little tester blog. Gonna see whether this will work for the summer. Thought I'd keep a little up to date journal about my ...
Unwelcoming Azerbaijan
... only to give me a 7 day visa. Any questions about extending the visa etc were met with "I don't know". Charming. Welcome to Azerbaijan.(I've now been to 20 countries, not that many really.) Outside, a taxi driver asked a ludicrous fee for the ride into ...
fish farms and the Caucasus mountains
I got lucky and was able to go with Sheila and some of her colleagues to head out west to visit some of the fish farm projects that USAID is helping out with. It's a long drive out there, about 5 or so hours, but being in an embassy car with ...
Baku, Oil metropolis
... would go to such a terrible place. The story behind it is that the Armenians have occupied a land mass of one quarter of Azerbaijan causing many deaths and displaced people. The reason for this is again very complicated and depending who we asked, we got ...
Unknown Location
... and tensions are still high along the borders (foreigners are generally not officially allowed along the border areas with Azerbaijan). The drive here was beautiful (of course, like every ride ...
Arrival to Stepanakert
... one of the places on Earth, that arent easily defined due to some political rubbish. It is a region between Armenia and Azerbaijan, recognized as independent by Armenia, to which it is linked by culture, tradition, language and people. Azerbaijan, who ...
