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Destination: Azerbaijan 🇦🇿

“I wish travel therapy was covered by my health insurance!”  by anonymous

Sightseeing, discovering other culture, taste their foods are always our agenda every time we go travel. But we’re surprised to know so little of this country.

Azerbaijan was under USSR and like other neighboring Countries they became independent.  So many places to discover and here I show you some.

Baku Airport(HeydarAliyev), vinneve foto

Discovering around the City of Baku

  1. The Flame Tower

2. The Maiden Tower.  Discover what’s inside.

3.  Discover the old world inside their medieval walled inner City.  Every alleys speak of history.  You will be amazed there are some similarities in Europe!

 4. Around Fountain Square.  Yes so many fountains around though I don’t show it here but I save those for later.

5.  The View on top  6.  Heydar Aliyev Museum. More of this awesome structure on my next post as it deserves it’s own limelight. Please wait for it.  Cheers!

7.  Milli Park at night is full of people with friends & families enjoying the sights and foods with so many restaurants around catering to locals & tourists.

8.  The Carpet Museum. You will see this inside Milli Park. Beautiful architecture!   9.  And these are the places we haven’t got the time to explore, sad to say.

Yanar Dag at night

Credit to: Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yanar_Dag

10.  The foods are mixed with some Asian and Arab spices.  Although mostly a Muslim Country, you can order some alcohol even in some restaurants inside the Park.  Surprisingly, they also produce their own wine!  They had a thriving wine industry dated back in the old days, second millenium BC.  Unfortunately we didn’t get the chance to taste it but I read from one blogger that it has a sweet taste and she likes it very much!

Will I go back to Azerbaijan?  I would love to!!  But for all those who knows my “life story” so far I cannot say when, as our life seems in constant change!  Be it fortunate or not it depends on the person reading all my posts.  For now… I am grateful to be a wanderer.  My love for travels cannot keep me in one place only.  FOLLOW me and you will see some of my adventures ahead.  Thanks for all the follows and the casual checking from other bloggers.  I do appreciate it.

22 thoughts on “Destination: Azerbaijan 🇦🇿”

  2. Wow! That’s such an interesting destination. How did you decide to go to Azerbaijan? I’m not sure what I was expecting it to look like but definitely not like your photos. Such a cool trip to a really off the beaten path place. Thanks for sharing!

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    • Hi nice to see you checking on my post 🙂 it’s the last choice actually as we were thinking of the cheapest and shortest flying time from Abu Dhabi and Azerbaijan tops it all haha! It’s one of the places most expats goes to aside from Georgia and Armenia etc. so I thought why not try. Yes we we’re a bit anxious but I did my research and a fellow blogger says so many nice things about the Country so I convinced my hubby. You see expect the unexpected and you will get a surprise! There are another post about Azerbaijan please check it on this link thanks https://evewanderer11.wordpress.com/2019/09/18/heydar-aliyev-museum-azerbaijan/

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  3. Another great post! Although this is not a place I would have considered visiting, thanks to you, it is certainly on my radar now! Keep enjoying your travels, you never know when it might come to an end. Looking forward to reading more.

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  8. You just made me want to visit Azerbaijan! I can’t wait to read about the museum, curious now why it deserves its own limelight. And the mixture of Asian and Arab food is so intriguing. One day!!! Thanks for this post, Vinneve! Looking forward to the next one.

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