I hope no one has been holding their breath for Part III of my Naxçıvan series as this wrap-up to my day trip to Azerbaijan’s autonomous enclave has been a long time coming! In case your memory is bit foggy of where we left off, check out Part I and Part II before continuing...
As promised in Part I of my post that let you in on a bit of general history and travel tips for Naxçıvan, here are some suggestions on how to spend a day in Naxçıvan City. If you’re a museum/history/art junkie like me, then Naxçıvan will treat…
Where is Naxçıvan and how do you get there? Naxçıvan is small enclave of Azerbaijan, roughly the size of the state of Delaware, that is completely separated from Azerbaijan proper. Naxçıvan shares land borders with Armenia, Turkey and Iran, although all of the Armenian borders are completely…
Qala to Mərdəkan (Before reading this post, make sure you check out Part I and Part II of my trek around the Abşeron.) By this point in the day I couldn’t drink water fast enough to counteract the amount of sweat streaming out of my pores, and…
Suraxanı to Qala Picking up my Abşeron Adventure where I left off in Part I, the next step was for me to figure out where in the hell I could find Bus 104 heading in the direction of Bakı Ekspo Mərkezi (Baku Expo Center). Someone at the…
The Abşheron Peninsula: From Koroğlu to Suraxanı While the most popular day trip from Baku is a drive down to Qobustan, a city south of the capital that boasts both millennia-old petroglyphs and active mud volcanoes, I decided to spend the day I always set aside for excursions…
The Bulvar is a Baku hotspot. Whether you’re crazy enough to jog the length of Baku’s seaside boulevard, are looking to hang out and chill or simply desire to strut your stuff with the fashionable evening crowd, the Bulvar is the place to be. At the beginning…
Baku is one capital for which I fell hard and its multiple personalities only gave me three times more of the city to love. Baku’s architecture is a personification of these three sides of the city and can act as a guide through the history of the…