Baku

Best travel reports from Baku

Money rules the world... and Azerbaijan

We are regularly asked by you: How can you afford it? Just traveling with 4 people, without income? That's an important question. We have lived frugally in recent years and...

Azerbaijan

I have thought long and hard about whether or not I should even travel to Azerbaijan. A country that has been ruled so authoritarianly for decades that one must speak of a...

Waiting for Professor Gül

Sunday, August 25, 2019, I start the day with a bowl of porridge and fried peach halves. Then I pack my stuff and enjoy a coffee at the Flora Hostel in Baku. It is already noon...

Georgia, the South, Upper Svaneti

As mentioned in the Armenia blog, my last landlord in Gyumri helped me organize my onward journey back to Georgia. So on July 17th, I first took a shared taxi across the...

Baku - Flora Hostel

On Monday morning (19.08.2019) we arrived in Baku around five o'clock. The bus dropped off some passengers in the city and finally arrived at the Sədərək Ticarət Mərkəzi, a kind...