Tag: Azerbaijan

I don’t have a whole lot to say here. This is basically just going to be a photo dump, because these photos are mostly going to speak for themselves. Baku’s …

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The world is getting smaller, they say. Soon everything will look like everything else. Everyone’s going to speak English, go to Starbucks, and drink at the Irish pub. Wherever you …

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So while Baku is busy spending ridiculous amounts of money on prestige projects and racing tracks, Azerbaijan isn’t quite as showy when it comes to some of the lesser-known attractions throughout the …

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So along with the tiny mountain village of Khinalug, Lahic is another picturesque town worth going out of your way to visit if you’re ever in Azerbaijan. It’s one of those …

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This was another major highlight of Azerbaijan: The tiny mountain village of Khinalug (also spelled Xinaliq) is an isolated settlement more or less in the middle of nowhere, surrounded by …

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Basically anything could be worth mentioning about Azerbaijan, since nobody seems to know anything about it in the first place. They’re kind of in the middle of nowhere in the …

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For some reason, one of the highlights of any trip is trying out the local cuisine. Maybe someplace out there only has mediocre food, but I have yet to be disappointed, …

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Azerbaijan is so unknown in other parts of the world that when I called my bank to tell them where I was going, the response was “what’s that?” But it …

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Azerbaijan’s bustling capital city of Baku is where you’ll find the country’s most startling mix of old and new, as well as the most visible expenditure of its recently exploited …

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