Archive for: Azerbaijan

Nakhchivan? Where??

Armenia: Border to Nakhchivan (Azerbaijani: Naxçıvan Muxtar Respublikası)

How many of you knows what this Nakhchivan is? Where is it exactly, how big, how beautiful? From this post you will get to know why even we didn’t visit this autonomous republic. read more »

Bye bye Baku

Bottle house in Ganja (Azerbaijan)

So from now on we will go only west. Last meetings with friends, last interview, last car workshop visit… and driving into direction of Georgia. Our visa will expire in two days. read more »

Going north, to Lezgins

Rider on the way to Laza (near Quasar; Azerbaijan)

Too hot in Baku to stay there any longer. But luckily we have friends which have a sweet house in the mountains, on the north, in Qusar – in the capital of Lezgins, one of the ethnic minority group in Azerbaijan. read more »

Our warm Caspian bath

boat which goes to the oil plattforms in the Caspian Sea (Azerbaijan)

So here we reached the most eastern point of our trip: still beyond Baku, small town Zira, the Caspian Sea beach and Artyom Island. read more »

Too hot Baku

skyscrapers in baku (Azerbaijan)

In this biggest Caucasus’ city I have learnt something about myself: I can have too much of the sun! 42 Celsius degrees didn’t let us discover as much as we wanted. read more »

1st birthday, on the north

Village Lahic in North Azerbaijan

Getting closer to Hanna’s first birthday, we spend some days in northwestern Azerbaijan, where rivers are not made by water but stones. read more »