http://www.travelblog.org/Bloggers/Craig_Leach/ Travel adventures in journals and photos from Craig_Leach en-us Sat, 26 Jul 2008 09:40:24 BST Sat, 26 Jul 2008 09:40:24 BST This morning everyone left on the ferry to Aktau Kazakhstan. My ferry ia due to leave in 5 hours in Azerbaijan this reads 4 24 hours so hopefully i can leave soonWe had a few beers last night on the blustry dock and said our goodbyes this morning. I might see James again in Tadjikistan and Altan in Atrau but its goodbye to the rest and goodluck on your travels http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Azerbaijan/Baku/blog-176614.html I've been laying low ovr the last couple of days because I haven't been feeling very well but now that I'm better i can finally do some stuff Wednesday to the suburbs Today me and james went out to the ancient 1000year old fire worshiping temple in the suburbs of Baku. Indians used to travel here on foot to worship at the constantly burning natural gas flame which has now since burned o http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Azerbaijan/blog-174973.html Day 8 After being eaten alive by mozies last night I decided to take a trip out of Baku to the surrounding peninsula. It's an industial waste land from the oil production. But i managed to find my own little slice of paradise after a couple of hours marshrukte hoping with only the vague idea that i wanted to try and find a beach on the north and cleaner side of the peninsula Baku is on. A c http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Azerbaijan/Baku/blog-173306.html Day 5 Today I decided to go to Gori to check out the Stalin museum and the fortress. Gori is the town that Stalin was born and raised in and is located 1 and a bit hours east of Tbilisi. I had to take a Marshrukte minibus from Tbilisi's Didube bus station read giant car park. Which was an adventure in itself trying to find the right one as Georgian isn't written in Cyrilic i found it qu http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Georgia/blog-172819.html Day 3 So today was a pretty lazy day. All i did was lay on the beach and wait for my train at 11pm. I still managed to get a little sunburnt despite the fact the sun never peaked through the clouds all day After boarding the train in what can only be described as a tropical storm i tried to get some sleep but the aircon in 4 person cabin was broken so i couldnt sleep for hours. The train http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Georgia/Tbilisi-District/Tbilisi/blog-171866.html Day 1 So I leave for Heathrow at ridiculous O'clock in the morning. After 3 and a half hours and sleeping through the inflight meal grrrrr i arrive at Istanbul airport and join the monster que visas. Eventuly i get to Trabzon and have my now broken bag grrr searched by customs. I find the place i want to stay. Which is a catholic guesthouse attached to a church. It's a very nice plac http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Georgia/blog-171075.html