1000 Camels Hostel Baku
Asef Zeynalli 29 Baku, AZ1000, Azerbaijan
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Land of Fire and Wind
Even the air smelled like oil surrounding the Atesgah Fire Temple. Around the seventeenth century site, built by fire-worshipping Indians, were dozens of oil wells and the oil town of Suraxani. Now, with all the pumping, the oil pressure underground has decreased, so the once-natural gas fire in the center of the temple is now fueled by a small …
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Evrovision, here we come!
... doing playing this man's game in my house??"), they did cordially receive and feed us.
And after all this fun, the boys simply drove us to our hotel and wished us a good trip. I'm still so amazed by all this hospitality. Not so much the fact that boys want to talk to you, but the fact that they really just want to talk to you and help you and show you around, and don't try any funny stuff afterwards!
I'm running, I'm scared tonight! Ow ow, ohow! ...
An all-day Customs saga
... which time its lunch and we go back to the apartment. Pack everything up, and load up the car with everything except the overnight stuff. After all, if they insist on the car remaining in customs, then we dont want to have to lug all out kit to the docks. So we keep the bare minimum, and set off, with a driver to customs at the docks.
There, we discover that the customs guy who we need to see is still at lunch. (Lunch is 1 to 2, and we get there at about ...
Day 2 of no travels
... we'll get there in the end and then there will be questions
So its a bit like being sent on holiday when you do not want to go and you know there is a job back home you would get more satisfaction out of completing.One more week faffing around here,a week being escorted through Turkmenistan and we'll be half way there!There's a song by the Hollies about the road ahead and something being heavy.Stanley still has work to do and we know you are behind him.
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From desert to polar in 2 hours
... on ground and the sudden tropic heat that came up as the sun rose outside. As we hit the 50 degree (celsius) mark the lady captain came out of her room and complained about her colleagues that they did not fire up the airconditioning.... what she did in the end and then we got nice 21 degrees. The new crew came on board and we took ...


