Written by HobWahid on November 11, 2005
- I rolled into the Baku train station early in the morning after 14 hours on a rickety Soviet-era train from Tbilisi in neighboring Georgia. I had barely slept, was groggy, and still nervous after my...
Written by HobWahid on November 11, 2005
- For whatever reason, the Caspian Sea always conjured up images of a dark, cold, unforgiving sea full of rusty oil tankers and biting winds. Perhaps it was the product of a Cold War-era primary education,...
Written by HobWahid on November 11, 2005
- The landscape of the Absheron Peninsula, surrounding Baku, is enough to make even George Bush think twice about the environmental disaster that drilling for oil can be. The peninsula is an almost completely barren stretch...
Written by BlindGuardian on March 13, 2005
- I visited Nagorno Karabagh during my nine-week alone trip around Armenia, Karabagh, Iran, and Turkey. Nagorno Karabagh was little crazy ...
My plane from Moscow landed in Yerevan, Armenia, at about 4am. Three hours later, I...
Written by HobWahid on November 11, 2005
- As I found out, winter is not prime tourist season for Azerbaijan. While Baku maintains a relative warmth, the rest of the country, especially as you head north towards the Caucusus, retains a bitter cold,...
Written by HobWahid on November 11, 2005
- “Did you ever see that James Bond movie with Baku in it?” My new Azeri friend asked, referring to 1999’s The World Is Not Enough, which was filmed in Baku. “Well, in the end they...
Written by HobWahid on November 11, 2005
- It was a Friday, and I was standing outside the Azerbaijani Embassy in Tbilisi. I wanted to get into Azerbaijan as soon as possible, but the guard on the outside insisted that the consular section...
Written by Andrewv41 on August 28, 2006
- The city of Shushi, found high in the mountains of Kharabakh, is a beautiful city with a rich history and many sites to visit. Although the streets are unpaved, for the most part, and you...
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