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The Lodge Baku

21 Hussein Javid Str. Baku, 370000, Azerbaijan

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Evrovision, here we come!

A travel blog entry by eyre

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... hopelessly outdated.

Burning earth

Azerbaijan is the land of fire. Not because of the people's spirits, but because the earth burns. Really! There are places where the gas comes out of the ground, and when you light it, it just keeps on burning. Untill you start pumping up the gas, and all the flames go out..

At Yanar Dag the earth still burns. You'd say that's a big tourist attraction, but it was quite difficult to get there ...

Hurry up and wait, not just an army phrase

A travel blog entry by argieuk

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... the poor running of the car which seems to have descended on it since parked up.Even with what I thought was poor fuel it got us to Baku and nothing has been done on it to have affected it badly,so what is going on?.So as Rog says,the car is in the port and we're part of the cafe society Totally in the dark about when ferry likely to go.I don't share Roger's expectation about timing of departure - I think its a plot to keep us renting apartment.Meanwhile ...

Day 2 of no travels

A travel blog entry by argieuk

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... Of course, the lights would change and the cross traffic coulnd go. So the policeman stepped in, stopped the cross traffic, which hooted and gestured at him. Tried to redirect the main traffic, which had sorted itself anyway. So he was in the way of everyone. He tried to allow the cross traffic time to go against the lights, but that just angered tha main traffic, which hooted and gestured. What a total mess up. He'd have been better sitting in the little Polis ...

To a litle bit better world

A travel blog entry by fearcuairt

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... are intricately woven with a deep religious culture. In Azerbaijan, oil is god, and I got the sense that they couldn't really care less about whether they are Europe or Asia - as though the question itself is just a little trivial and unimportant. Azeris hate Iran - as most of their people are trapped within its boundaries and suffering discrimination at the hands of the Iranian government who has given special rights and freedoms to ethnic Armenians and Jews, but none ...

Km 5534, Baku

A travel blog entry by andiontour

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... Taschen herum, Männer fahren mit ihren Edelkarossen herum. Baku hat die höchste Mercedes-Quote der Welt! Eine völlig andere Welt, wenn man den Rest von Azerbaidschan mit seiner Hauptstadt vergleicht. Keine Frage, sind hier auch die Preise auf westeuropäischem Niveau. Man muss richtig suchen, um irgendwo einen günstigen Döner zu kriegen.

Ich werde hier einige Tage bleiben, ein wenig rasten und nachher gehts weiter nach Iran, worauf ich mich schon sehr ...