Fun couple of days. The first day we visited a Zoroastrian fire temple, where worshippers would travel from all over Central Asia to see the rocks that burnt all day and night. This occurred as the natural gas escaping from the vast underground reserves caught fire and burnt uninterrupted. It seems the vast reserves have [...]
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Azerbaijan – Baku, Azerbaijan
Everyone with a blue passport (the Aussies, Kiwis and Americans) have to head off to the Georgian embassy to get a visa for the next country, but fortunately the Brits don’t have to so I get to spend the day wandering around town. Baku is a British (BP) and American (Exxon) oil town so has [...]
Waiting on a ferry – Middle of the Caspian Sea, Turkmenistan
The ferries coming in all day have been really quite good looking – painted white and kept clean. Our ferry by contrast is possibly painted rust coloured, or more likely a complete rust bucket. It’s called the Professor Gül, and happens to be mentioned in a book I’m currently reading (The New Great Game: Blood [...]
