A fairly easy day today, we got to our hotel by 5pm! We started with a walk around Lahji - this mountain town that we drove in the dark to get to last night. It’s a summer retreat for Bakuvians when the heat in the city gets too extreme as well as being famed for … Continue reading Caucasus Day 3: Lahji > Sheki

We still had more to see of Baku before setting off to discover inland Azerbaijan. This morning consisted of a walking tour of old Baku. Remains have been found showing it was a trading settlement at least back to the 5th C B.C.  Walled in in the 12th C, the old town existed within until … Continue reading Caucasus Day 2: Baku > Lahij

Tour Day 1. A very long, great day. We didn’t get back to our hotel until 10pm so if this schedule continues my blogging efforts will certainly suffer! My tour with Wild Frontiers consists of 3 couples and 5 singles; 4 of us North American and the rest Brits. We’ve just over two weeks to … Continue reading Caucasus Day 1: Baku

I arrived in Baku right at rush hour last night. It was getting dark when I got to my hotel so my first impressions of Azerbaijan are crazy traffic, lots of police, and some amazing architecture. Today was my zero day before my tour starts tomorrow. Not zero in that I did nothing but that … Continue reading Caucasus Day 0: Baku