Azerbaijan 2024

Here is the main page covering our 3-week visit to Azerbaijan, plus a slide show of pictures at the end.

For journal postings from Azerbaijan, CLICK HERE.

After four years in Lisbon, partly waiting out the pandemic in 2020 and 2021, and various extended visits to Africa, we were ready to pick up and move for a while to a new region, the Caucasus, visiting here and neighboring Armenia and Georgia, which was our “base camp” for our six months in the region.

This is the only Muslim-majority country in the Caucasus, with about 10 million people. Our base camp was the exciting capital of Baku on the Caspian Sea. From there we made several journeys north and south.

Our itinerary included:

• The Old Town and newer outlying districts of Baku
• Candy Cane Mountains near Baku
• Quba and Xinaliq (Khinaliq) – in the mountainous north
• Atesgah, the Zoroastrian and Hindi fire temple near Baku
• Qobustan, Lankaran, Lerik, and the colorful Hyrkan National Forest – to the south
• Shamakhi and Qabala, Sheki and Kish – in the north

You browse the map below for where we’ve been in Azerbaijan (and posted an article). Click a pushpin to find the posted articles from the marked locations. Zoom into the Baku area on the map so you can discover the various experiences we were able to enjoy in the city.

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SLIDE SHOW HINT: If you’ve already seen the earlier pictures in the slide show, arrow back and forth quickly to jump around.