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Eastern Azerbaijan

A September 2000 trip to Baku by Ray Becker

Quote: My wife and I visited Baku, Azerbaijan for a two week stay in the city. We worked on volunteer assignments during the day and visited museums and archeological sites at night and on weekends
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Overview

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Baku is a large city on the shore of the Caspian Sea. Ruled by the Soviet Union since the early 1900's it has suffered greatly. Pollution, a lack of infrastructure and a lack of an ethic of environmental concern are the legacies. However, it has an exceptional Carpet Museum (as well as a Bazaar where one can buy carpets as souvenirs), wonderful (and very accessible) wall carvings on the sandstone cliffs about 70 Kilometers South of Baku, and a very interesting Zoroastorian temple complex to the East. The old city is also very interesting. Some very good restaurants, plenty of alcohol (although the majority of the population is Moslem, they, like their Turkish bretheren, are a secular state; they ...Read More

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Ray Becker

Ray Becker
Lamoine, Maine

  • "Wife and I like to travel to unique places and, if possible, to live there with the citizens, rather..."
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