by Anonymous | Nov 17, 2018 | Armenia, Artsakh, Azerbaijan, How Did You Do That?, November 2018: Armenia & Artsakh, Rules Are Meant To Be Broken, Way Way Off the Beaten Path
After 3 days in Artsakh it was time to return home. We woke up at 9am, had breakfast and quickly packed our bags ontop of Yerish’s car, who had come just in time to drive us back to Yerevan. Instead of the southern route we took to reach Artsakh, we would return...
by Anonymous | Nov 16, 2018 | Armenia, Artsakh, Azerbaijan, How Did You Do That?, November 2018: Armenia & Artsakh, Unrecognized Territories, Way Way Off the Beaten Path
After a morning in Stepanakert we headed out towards the rest of the Karabakh region to explore other areas evidently affected by the recent clashes between Azerbaijan and Karabakh/Armenian forces.The first sign of the war was a tank memorial on a hill,...
by Anonymous | Nov 16, 2018 | Armenia, Artsakh, Azerbaijan, Border Crossing, Getting that VISA, How Did You Do That?, November 2018: Armenia & Artsakh, Rules Are Meant To Be Broken, Unrecognized Territories, Walking Tours, Way Way Off the Beaten Path, What Dreams May Come
From Tatev we turned and drove up north towards the town Goris, famous for being the home to the Settlement of old Kores, a series of previous inhabited rock caves similar to the cave homes in Cappadocia. And thus began our final leg of our roadtrip...
by Calvin Sun | Aug 29, 2018 | August 2018: Azerbaijan & Nakhchivan, Azerbaijan, How Did You Do That?, Lessons Learned, Nakhchivan, Rules Are Meant To Be Broken, Travel Warnings, Uncategorized Stories, Unrecognized Territories, Walking Tours, Way Way Off the Beaten Path, What Dreams May Come
It’s time to shift monsooning back into higher gears — today we’re visiting Nakhchivan! A landlocked exclave separated from Azerbaijan by Armenia (or as some say, physically located within Armenia), but an otherwise autonomous region under the control of the...
by Calvin Sun | Aug 27, 2018 | August 2018: Azerbaijan & Nakhchivan, Azerbaijan, Way Way Off the Beaten Path
After a late morning checking out Gobustan National Park, its petroglyphs and mud volcanoes south of Baku, we drove up north of Baku to explore more of the land of fire.The Ateşgah Fire Temple was our first stop. Built in the 18th century by numerous Indian...
by Calvin Sun | Aug 27, 2018 | August 2018: Azerbaijan & Nakhchivan, Azerbaijan, Way Way Off the Beaten Path
With 2 days wandering about in Baku behind, Elizabeth, Brandon and I got up at 9:30am today and hopped on with Fuad of Guided Azerbaijan in his 4WD and headed for the Gobustan State Reserve.Located about 40 miles southwest of Baku, the national park was...
