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Azerbaijan - a nation with a Turkic and majority-Muslim population - regained its independence after the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991. Despite a 1994 cease-fire, Azerbaijan has yet to resolve its conflict with Armenia over the Azerbaijani Nagorno-Karabakh enclave (largely Armenian populated). Azerbaijan has lost 16% of its territory and must support some 571,000 internally displaced persons as a result of the conflict. Corruption is ubiquitous and the promise of widespread wealth from Azerbaijan's undeveloped petroleum resources remains largely unfulfilled. To be updated

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By rrruss
October 4th 2008

A Whistlestop Tour of Baku Asia » Azerbaijan » Baku

Sunrise

Glorious sunrises don't always mean sunny days! We are learning that quickly here!!! But even on a grey day you can have a pleasant walk around the city. The photos aren’t so great though so sorry about that! At the moment all of the city parks seem to be closed for maintenance. That’s a real shame but the municipality have put boards up to prevent you going in, and on those boards are photos of how the city used to look. It’s better than nothing. We jumped off the bus at Azneft Square and crossed the busy road. Then we skirted [View Full Entry]

By rrruss
October 4th 2008

Monuments and Sculptures of Baku Asia » Azerbaijan » Baku

Gorki

There are lots of them all over the city! Here's a selection of ones we've seen so far. [View Full Entry]

By rrruss
October 2nd 2008

Xinaliq - The majestic beauty of the Caucasus Asia » Azerbaijan » Xinaliq

Majestic Beauty

Xinaliq (strictly speaking there should be no dots on the i's but I don't have an Azeri keyboard on the laptop) is a beautiful village in the Caucasus mountains of Northern Azerbaijan. It’s pronounced Hunalug, although Michael took to saying it Honolulu! When we arrived in Xinaliq, it had been snowing the previous night and the white covering on the mountain extended all the way down to the stream at the bottom of the valley. That’s where we were taken to our “guest house”. It wasn’t really a guest house as such because there was no landlady to look after us. [View Full Entry]

By rrruss
October 1st 2008

Quba - In the misty mountains! Asia » Azerbaijan » Quba

On the bridge

Quba (pronounced Guba) is a small town in the North of Azerbaijan in the foothills of the Caucasus Mountains. It was a nice place for our first trip out of Baku. On Thursday afternoon it was decided that Monday would be a public holiday. This made for a 5 day weekend as Tuesday and Wednesday were already holidays for Eid al Fitr, the end of Ramadan. It was too good an opportunity to miss so we decided to make a trip of it with a couple of other teachers, Gunther and Michael. We left Baku on Sunday morning. It was very [View Full Entry]

By rrruss
October 1st 2008

The Cloudcatcher Canyon Asia » Azerbaijan » Quba

Posing in the mountains

Mark Elliot’s “Trailblazer” guide to Azerbaijan has proved an excellent purchase. How this man managed to travel so extensively around the country beggars belief. I wonder if he knows how grateful people like us are! Between Quba and Xinaliq is what he names the “Cloudcatcher” canyon. Presumably it has another name but we didn’t discover it! We left Quba on Monday morning courtesy of a 4 wheel drive jeep arranged for us by Xeyraddin. The [View Full Entry]

By rrruss
September 26th 2008

Baku - A city of memorials Asia » Azerbaijan » Baku

Martyrs' Alley

It’s a sad fact that in any country which has suffered oppression at the hands of another you will find memorials and reminders of the past. Here in Azerbaijan it has perhaps more resonance as these events happened so recently that we remember them ourselves. We took a trip up to Martyrs’ Alley to see how the events of the early 1990s have been commemorated. That involved a short and exceptionally cheap trip up the city’s funicular railway. The looks we got suggested that not too many foreign visitors make it up there! At the top of the hill is a [View Full Entry]

By rrruss
September 25th 2008

Baku - A stroll along the promenade Asia » Azerbaijan » Baku

Dom Soviet

A pedestrian promenade runs all along Baku’s Caspian coast close to the city centre. It’s a great place for a stroll and it’s very clean and safe. It takes about an hour to stroll along its length and there’s lots to see and usually something going on. The day we took a wander by the sea there was an oil workers’ exposition taking place. We paused to see a model of an on-land oil drilling station and to read the numerous information boards. As it was all in Azeri, we could only guess what it said! No doubt with an upcoming [View Full Entry]

By rrruss
September 22nd 2008

Baku - By the shore of the Caspian Sea Asia » Azerbaijan » Baku

Azerbaijan

Well, we made it. We are finally in Baku. “Where’s Baku?” we’ve been asked by several friends. “Azerbaijan” we reply. “Azer-by-WHAT?” most of them comment. So, here goes, Azerbaijan is a former Soviet Republic located East of Georgia and Armenia, Norht of Iran, South of the Dagestan region of Russia, and on the West coast of the Caspian Sea. It is a muslim country although it’s not really noticeable on the surface. The Azeri people speak a curiou [View Full Entry]

By Dalin and Gudi
August 29th 2008

Georgia & Azerbaijan Asia » Azerbaijan » Baku

We're in Georgia! Khertvisi fortress

Tag 50 bis 74 11.200 km von Galway Hallo Leute! Sorry, dass wir Euch so lange seit dem letzten Blog haben warten lassen! In diesen Breiten, wo nicht wirklich viele Touris hinkommen, ist es gar nicht so einfach Internet Cafes zu finden, wo die Computer auch funktionieren… ;-) Wie schon beim letzten Mal geschrieben sind wir also am 5. August von der Tuerkei direkt am Schwarzen Meer entlang nach Georgien eingereist. Die Abfertigung an diesem stark frequentierten Uebergang (angeblich einziger mit Strassenanbindung, aber dazu spaeter mehr...) hat dann auch gut 2,5 Stunden ged [View Full Entry]

Kathy M. is sleeping in the lobby, Hotel Mezkheti in Akhalzikhe

By zofka
July 16th 2008

A Baku celebrity Asia » Azerbaijan » Baku

The beach

15 minutes of fame I chose to buy two large sunglasses today, so that I can really look like a celebrity! The reason is that we have been quite a lot in AZTV. Firstly, we appeared at a pressconference, where all of us had to tell why we had chosen Azerbaijan and how we liked it so far! Later on, a tv crew came to our language course to film us while having class, and afterwards I was chosen for an interview. Some of the other participants have been interviewed for the radio or been at the live morning show on [View Full Entry]

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