Caspian Plaza Baku

Jaffar Jabbarli 42 Baku, AZ 1000, Azerbaijan

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Ish been än Gobistanare

A travel blog entry by nicke


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 haremet eller mosken osv.
Och det hela låg breve hotellet gör ju saken inte sämre.
Var även för bi Maiden tower men har ännu inte varit inne/klättrat upp i den.

Innan det blev dax för lite mat ...

Baku, Oil metropolis

A travel blog entry by tonztosee

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... restaurants.
In the countryside things are different. Having to wait for our Kazachstan visa we fled the big city to Lahic, a small village in the outskirts of the Caucasian mountains. Here, time slows down and life is more basic. Shops sell only necessary items plus candy and many houses don't have running water relying on abundant natural springs throughout the village. People are mainly farmers, coppersmiths ...

A secure ending to a trying evening

A travel blog entry by argieuk

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Left the hotel promptly, so that we werent mobbed by all and sundry. It really is quite frightening being surrounded by all those people who have not a wortd of language in common. Breakfast not included, so we were on our way before any of the hotel staff were up. However, there is a bazaar held next to the hotel, and there was already major activity setting up the days trading.
Eventually stopped off for a coffee at a petrol station. Without a common language ...

Unwelcoming Azerbaijan

A travel blog entry by jsynomad

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... make a Jersey taxi driver blush! Managed to get it down to half. Heading into town this city was clearly much bigger than any others I'd seen and was awash with oil money. Massive skyscrapers going up everywhere, big new roads, loads of shiny 4x4s. The place is aiming to be the new Dubai.

Nevertheless I found it not to be a bad place apart from the insane prices in certain parts of the city (more expensive ...

Last week in aZERbaijan...

A travel blog entry by triptalk

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... thing is that I can walk around alone and noone says a word to me...they really leave you alone which is wonderful and unusual. Sheila, Fariz and I did a trip out to the Airport Bazaar for me to try on some winter coats...I was looking for a deal, but there were none to be had. oh well....not really many deals here anyway. Then we went to go see 'fire mountain' which was more like 'burning dirt'. It was cool, I mean hot, natural gas ...