STEBO'S BLOG

After breakfast we took a walk down to the promenade and had a coffee at a Georgian restaurant. Already feeling a little bit touristed out we went to the shopping mall and watched Spider-Man in Turkish, we had the choice of Человек-паук (Russian) or Örümcek Adam (Turkish) either with Azerbaijani subtitles for Hörümçək Adam! In the end it was the Turkish version. Surprisingly I uSurpassinglyndersatnd and learned quite a bit. Along the boulevard After the film we stopped for a

Samovar We were down for breakfast at 08:00, it was in general pretty generic with breads and cheeses and the like, but also nice eggs, shakshuka, hash browns and tea from a Samovar. Old city walls After breakfast we explored the city, this time going to the old city. The city walls were quite impressive. Inside the old city walls as expected people were hustling for business selling tea, carpets, trinkets whatever! The palace We paid to enter the Shirvanshah palace for 24 eu

The Boulevard with cactus plants It was quite early or late depending on how you look at it when we arrived in Baku. Luckily I had changed our accommodation for a hotel at the airport, and even a pick up. Somewhere around 12:00 we checked out and I ordered a Bolt taxi to our other hotel, the Radisson and they actually let us check in early. Baku After a brief rest we went out and explored the boulevard, it was so hot! Given that it was -28M below sea level and at the Caspian