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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 hauteboy
July 20th 2005

Petroglyphs and Flaming Walls Asia » Azerbaijan

Bargaining with the taxi drivers

Hotel: Velotrek Hotel (Baku, Azerbaijan) $30 The plan today was to visit the petroglyphs at Qobustan, a village about 50km south of Baku. We wandered outside the hotel into the taxi melee to find someone to drive us there. The Lonely Planet book had said it was only a $20 trip, but noone would back down from $50. Most people didn't seem to know where it was we were going either. We finally chose a Saddam Hussein looking guy, who said he had been in the Afghanistan war (Russian side). He didn't speak English, but a friend of his did, so [View Full Entry]

By hauteboy
July 19th 2005

Baku Birthday Asia » Azerbaijan

Cafe greetings

Hotel: Velotrek Hotel (Baku, Azerbaijan) $30 Visa on arrival: $40 $1 USD = 4700 Azeri Manat We decided to head to the airport early this morning for our 10:30 AM flight to Baku. We hailed a cab from the hotel, but we were only able to talk him down to 1200 roubles (the books say 900 is best). This seemed a bit excessive as we were already on the road to the airport, but all 4 of us crammed into the LADA as it was raining and we didn't feel like walking to Beloruskaya station to take the metro+bus option. The [View Full Entry]

By Dittemus
August 27th 2004

På sporet af Vikingerne i Aserbaijan Asia » Azerbaijan

Det sidste jeg havde forestillet mig ved mit besøg i Aserbaijan var, at jeg ville komme på sporet af mine forfædre. Skandinavere, eller i hvert fald de nordiske Vikinger stammer muligvis fra Aserbaijan, fandt jeg ud af efter blot et par dage i landet… Der var ikke rigtigt noget der pegede i den retning da bussen bumpede over grænsen til Aserbaijan, hvor skiftet mellem et kristent og muslimsk land kom næsten umærkeligt. Spredte moskeer og the-saloner i stedet for barer begyndte at dukke op i de små landsbyer vi passerede, og vi så enkelte ældre kvinder med sorte tørklæder. Me [View Full Entry]

By aspiringnomad
August 12th 2004

Searching for vikings in the devil's excrement Asia » Azerbaijan

local dude Sheki

Upon entering Azerbaijan we visited an old temple in the foot hills of The Caucasus that had been creating some controversy after the Norwegian government paid for an extensive exploration and renovation; based on Thor Heyerdahl’s theory that the Scandinavians were originally from Azerbaijan… Norwegian mythology tells that the Scandinavian god Odin moved with his people to Norway from a land called Aser. Heyerdahl reckons the original Caucasians fled the invading Romans in around 90AD. Sailing from the Caspian, they moved through the Black Sea, out through the Dardanelles into [View Full Entry]

By nyd
June 28th 2003

Moscow, Azerbaijan and Georgia 2003 Asia » Azerbaijan

Liberty monument, Baku

Links to travel journals and pictures from: * 2003 Moscow, Azerbaijan, Georgia and Sochi * 2004 Georgia, Svaneti, Armenia [View Full Entry]

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