As we flew from on the second leg of our today's journey we could see the southern coast of the Black Sea, and then Georgia's feudal strips of land by big sandy rivers scattered with villages. Not many trees, mainly dry arid land with occasional patches of green. You could see the The Baku–Tbilisi–Ceyhan (BTC) pipelineis a 1,768 kilometres (1,099 mi) long crude oil pipeline from the Azeri-Chirag-Guneshlioil field in the Caspian Sea to the Mediterranean Sea. It connects Baku, the capital of Azerbaijan and Ceyhan, a port on the south-eastern Mediterranean coast of Turkey, via Tbilisi, the capital of Georgia. It is the second-longest oil pipeline in the former Soviet Union, after the Druzhba pipeline. The first oil that was pumped from the Baku end of the pipeline on 10 May 2005 reached Ceyhan on
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