A hillside near Baku where natural gas seeping from the ground has been burning continuously for decades, a wall of flame 10 m long, most impressive after dark.
It's about 30 minutes from central Baku. Azerbaijan is known as the 'Land of Fire'.
Baku's walled old city, a UNESCO World Heritage Site, with the 12th-century Maiden Tower, the Palace of the Shirvanshahs, caravanserais and carpet sh…
More than 6,000 rock carvings of people, animals and boats dating back up to 40,000 years, in a rocky landscape south of Baku, a UNESCO World Heritag…
One of the highest and most remote villages in the Caucasus, at 2,350 m, whose people speak their own language, with stone houses stacked on a hillsi…
An 18th-century summer palace in the Caucasus foothills, famous for its walls of colourful frescoes and stained-glass windows (shebeke) made without …
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