31st May 2014
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Ashgabat
After 10 hour drive we arrived at Ashgabat the capital of Turkmenistan. We are now in a good hotel for two nights 🙂 With its lavish marble palaces, gleaming gold…
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After 10 hour drive we arrived at Ashgabat the capital of Turkmenistan. We are now in a good hotel for two nights 🙂 With its lavish marble palaces, gleaming gold…
Sunrise over the Caspian Sea traveling on a cargo ferry to Turkenbashi, Turkmenistan. This ferry is the only one that carries passengers and we are the only people on board,…
Baku, the capital and commercial hub of Azerbaijan. A modern city, great architecture, clean streets and friendly people. Dripping in money, all the big fashion houses are here. It’s famed…
Qobustan is a settlement and municipality in Baku, Azerbaijan. It has a population of 14,470. It is best known for being the home to the famous rock petroglyphs and mud volcanoes….
Finally out of Georgia! Visited the Khan’s Summer Place in Sheki (1762) – a rare example of combining the national and palace architecture traditions. It is remarkable that during the…
The Yerevan Vernissage is an open-air exhibition-market functioning on the weekends. It was formed during the 1980s by Armenian artists who started to display their art works in the square…
Georgian Military Road was originally built by Russian soldiers beginning in 1799, work that lasted more than six decades as they widened and improved the 130-mile road. Built at elevations…
Discovered in Imereti region in 1984 the Prometheus Cave, locally known as Kumistavi caves, is one of Georgia’s natural wonders providing visitors with breathtaking examples of stalactites, stalagmites, curtains, petrified…
