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Funicular
They have a funicular to get you up/down the hillside.
However, I showed up on lunch break. Being adventurous, I climbed my way to the top. Stupid me. 3/4's of the way I ran into construction - I found a way around but I should have waited.
Interesting cemetery at the top (see next entry).
I did take the funicular back down.
Almost got caught taking a photo of the UN Building (see that guard?)
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Still In Asia Or Is This Europe?
... geothermal features are called mud-pots in Yellowstone). They are essentially mounds created due to oozing of mud and various gases from the belly of the earth and watching them belch and spew provides a few minutes of entertainment. Between Baku and Qobustan, the road passes alongside the Caspian Sea and on either side you see innumerable number of oil pumps, some still drilling oil. At the southern limit of the city is an area especially ...
Baku
... Olympics were going on in London, so
there were no wrestlers here. Baku was literally completely torn apart when I was here. It is going to transform itself into a Dubai type city. This whole city will be completely different in 5 years. Right now, 90% of the sidewalks were under construction and there are several skyscrapers under construction also. The part of the city that is completed like fountain square or the sidewalk along
the water ...
Teuer!
... gutes haben die hohen Preise hier. Es gibt gerade mal ein einziges Hostel im Zentrum Bakus und somit treffen sich alle Reisenden dort, da man sich einfach ein teureres Hotel nicht leisten kann (so ab 50 Franken in der Nacht zahlt man fuer ein sehr schlechtes Hotel). Dort kann man sich super austauschen ueber die Reiseerfahrungen und ueber die Visaerfahrungen, denn ganz viele Leute organisieren hier ihre Visas, da es das Tor zu Zentralasien ist (dank den ...
Still in Baku, sunning it up
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... he goes, and its back to everyone talking but little being done.
Then we are directed upstairs to some guy who is in charge of Firearms and Contraband, smuggling and guns. Go through the same story, cuts no ice. We now have to get the car repaired, take it to customs at the dock, they will liase with Head Office who will decide the fine, then we can get it cleared, buy a ticket and get on the ferry. If there is one! There's no facility for extending a cars papers, ...
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