| Azerbaijan |
| Azerbaijan is a very fun, safe and laid back country that isn't well known to most people and was actually was one of my favorite places to visit. It has a lot to do both day and night and is surprisingly an international city since many foreigners come to work in the oil fields. |
| Baku city has a new modern area and the old Baku. Above is the modern area and a fountain near the Caspian Sea. |
| The left picture is the wall that goes around all of Old Baku. The next are pictures of the markets and the famous Maiden Tower on the right. |
| On the left is an old building that was converted into a bar. It's very nice and there are several of them in Baku in additional normal bars. The right is a guy about to go jet skiing in the Caspian Sea, the largest lake in the world. |
| The picture on the left is of a woman trying on some traditional Azeri clothing. The shop on the left sold many trinkets including carpets and the 'magic lamps' from Persia. The picture on the right and the one below are of some of the old caravans that are used today as businesses and nice decorated cafes. |
| To the right is a nice mosque seen in Baku near the city's highest point. On the left is a famous place to visit in Baku which is called Martyr's Lane. It's dedicated to dozens of people who were killed when Azeris were protesting the Soviet Union. |
| Above are pictures from some caveman carvings that are said to be 10,000 years old. The right picture is a rock that was used to play music found in an area known as Gobustan. |
| Another very interesting place in Azerbaijan are the mud volcanoes. There are said to be 800 in the world, and half of them are in this country. The mud they spit out is cold, so you can walk up and put your finger in it. If you get close you can see mud running down the volcano just like lava would. There are several of them here along the Caspian Sea making all kinds of noises. |
| The two pictures to the right of the above caravan picture are of Azerbaijan's wealth of natural resources. The top right picture is one of the oil fields and this is where Azerbaijan makes all its money. The picture directly on the right is a natural gas leak that is said to have been burning for over one thousand years. |
| Azerbaijan was a major stop over for the Great Silk Road that went from the Far East all the way to Europe. On the right is an Indian temple of Atesgah, one of three still left in the world. The builders of the temple used to worship fire, and you can see me standing inside next to a natural gas flame that the temple was built around. The doors in the back go to rooms which were basically used as a hotel for the Indian traders. Below is a picture of a butterfly taken up in some rocky mountains of Azerbaijan. The rocky mountains can be seen better in the photo to the upper right. In these mountains are some carvings from where people used to live thousands of years ago. It was said they lived here and one day the Caspian Sea supposedly flooded and killed many of them while they were sleeping. |
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| The first pictures are of the capital Baku, one at night and one during the day time Baku is a city with over 2 million. |
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| Above are two pictures of myself and my guide in Azerbaijan. On the left we are infront of the Baku city again, standing on the maiden's tower. On the right is the inside of the Flying Carpet Shop that sells trinkets and carpets. |
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