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...
by Calvin Sun | Aug 26, 2018 | August 2018: Azerbaijan & Nakhchivan, Azerbaijan, Serendipitous!
FYI: A more comprehensive itinerary of Baku can be found in my entry back in 2015, but this post will fill in some of the gaps I had missed last time. As well as more magic. I was here once alone back in 2015, and now I’m back with a new crew 2...
