1. The truth is there is nothing to see in Azerbaijan
via Flickr: Francisco Anzola
Baku Old Town “Icharishahar”.
2. There is nothing modern about this country
via Flickr: Niyaz Bakili
Flame Towers in Baku.
3. And no sign of ancient history
via Wikipedia: Xlodvig
4. Nature is boring and ugly
via Youtube: Igor Byshnev
5. Streets are littered with bottles and cans
via Flickr: Dieter Zirnig
Nizami Street – central street in Baku. Previously known as Torgovaya.
6. Buildings are in standard soviet architecture style like this
via Wikipedia: Urek Meniashvili
Ismailiyya building in Baku. Built by oil baron Musa Naghiyev to memorialize his son, Ismail, who had died of tuberculosis. The building is based on the design of Palazzo Contarini in Venice.
7. Novruz holidays? Well, everyone celebrates it all over the world
Via lent.az
Novruz Holiday is a traditional holiday in Azerbaijan celebrated every year on 20-21 March.
8. National cuisine is all about hamburgers and French fries
via azcookbook
Some samples from Azerbaijani cuisine: pakhlava, lule-kebab, dovgha, chicken saj, dushbara (meat dumplings), dolma (stuffed eggplant, tomato and pepper), yarpag dolmasy (dumplings inside grape leaves), kufte-bozbash (meatball soup), tendir bread.
9. Azerbaijani people just hate to hang out and party hard
via Friday.az
10. And nobody heard about contemporary art
via javad.az
Javad Mir Javadov – Dance.
11. First inhabitants appeared there only in 20th century
Gobustan Petroglyphs dating back between 5,000 – 40,000 years.
12. Landscapes and towers are disappointing and uninspiring
“Sumuq-Qala” tower in Ilisu village, Qakh district.
13. You can’t find any natural wonders here. Even a fire coming out of the ground
via Flickr: Stefano Bolognini
Natural wonder of Azerbaijan: Yanar Dag (burning mountain).
14. Or mud volcanoes…
via Flickr: Nick Taylor
15. Nights in Baku are so disgusting. You’d better not go out
via Flickr: Y Nakanishi
16. Villages are deserted all around the country
Village in Shaki.
17. Everything is plain grey and white inside the buildings
via Flickr: Raphaela
Inside the Palace of Shaki Khans.
18. Let’s agree with a simple fact: Azerbaijan is a terrible place to visit
via Flickr: ashmieke
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Azerbaijan is a really quite interesting land, but can’t say the same about the post. The posts like “Why you should never visit some country” are aimed to show the stereotypes about some land and then prove that they are all wrong.
I mean no one even claims that “National cuisine in Azerbaijan is all about hamburgers and french fries”, though many people think that majority of the women in Azerbaijan are covering themseves, which contradicts the secular ideology. And author could disprove this and many other stereotypes about Azerbaijan and make the post much more interesting.
But I like the photos. Cheers.
I totally agree with you and could not stay indifferent to this. I don’t think the author makes a good point here. Some of the pictures don’t have captions and captions are support to argue the claims made. There is a lot to say and mention and ti is sad that this post about Azerbaijan is unfinished. The author should have done a better research.
If there is not any nice places to visit in Azerbaijan from where appeared all these wonderful pictures,also this comment written here from somebody who does not know difference between fast food and Caucasian kebab and Caspian caviar 😊
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Etaga ne deyirse duz deyir gedin İsvece Norvece zada gelmiyin pula heyifdi
This is obviously a sarcastic post. The pics show exact opposite of what is written in captions.
Some people commenting here can’t apparently distinguish sarcasm from criticism. The whole morale of the story the author is trying to tell is you absolutely gotta visit this f*cking country. BUT you need a visa if you are from anywhere outside of the former Soviet Union or a few other countries. Bare in mind, you better be accompanied by locals as it otherwise might prove to be too expensive and hard to find your way around. Flights are super-expensive from Europe or from anywhere else in the world. So as the saying goes, there are pros and cons of your decision if you chose to visit Azerbaijan.
i want to visit azerbaijan can u guide me its really good to visit baku ? can u give me some knowledge
yes, Azerbaijan must be in your bucket list in 2018
No ofcourse it’s so bad to live here and here too much poor people who need 1$
WizzAir has been operating to and from Baku for more than 2 years. So your “Flights are super-expensive from Europe” is a bit outdated and if one plans to visit Azerbaijan and book his/her flight beforehand then it is not so scary as you describe it, around 30-50 euro one way
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I have a phone call from azerbaijan.
But I can’t attend the call.
Before I don’t know “azerbaijan”.
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Beautiful Place. The region has rich history with neighbours like turkmanistan, kirghistan etc. generally overlooked by tourist industry. Very informative post. Would love to go one day 🙂
You are always welcome to visit this country, but Azerbaijan is not neighboring with above mentioned countries 🙂 It’s the other coast of the Caspian Sea.
Əla məqalədir ! 🙂 adı cəlb elədi açdıqda ləzzət elədi 🙂
Olduqca cəlbedici
It is a great ide of promoting using negative thoughts on th social web. However, You have to consider to add a Question Mark at the end of the every sentences. Then, it will be very obvious that your promotional activity has been built on sarcasm 🙂 Thank you!
Good way of PR but please add quotation marks around the word “never”. Even I, as an Azerbaijani, understood it literally. It took me about a minute to realise that your approach was sarcastic. Please make sure that there is a sign to your sarcasm on the title itself.
it is just meant to get curious about azerbaijan
I’ve been and it was a shithole. When you get out of central Baku it is especially awful, especially when you see how the people are treated by their government.
I am an Expat staying in Baku, I have explored most of the places in Baku, and I disagree with the author. Baku is a very nice place to stay, rich in culture, one of the best architecture around, places like Shahdag are Amazing, yeah a bit expensive. I agree the night life is dull as compared to other places of the world But my only regret about Baku, you cant make friends cant talk to people, It seems that Expats are not welcomed here.
This is sarcasm asshole
Nothing against the beautiful country and its lovely people, but Nowrouz is actually a Persian festivity, being celebrated in Iran, Afghanistan and Tajikistan majorly. So indeed it’s unique when you look at the worldwide scale, but it’s not uniquely or exclusively an Azerbaijani festivity.
it is a regional holiday going back to zaraotianism
And where is the geographical origin of Zoroastrianism? Old Persia, which shrunk into today’s Iran over centuries; where the largest Zoroastrian community and the oldest Zoroastrian temples are located.
So it’s nothing Azeri, sorry. However Azerbaijan indeed was a part of Persia.
So if one wants to travel to specifically see Norouz festivities they should consider going to either Iran, Tajikstan (beautiful ceremonies there) or Afganistan, namely Mazar Sharif. Going to Azerbaijan for Norouz would be like going to Vegas to see the Eiffel tower.
no one said that Novruz is Azerbaijani. Not even the article. And yes Zoroastianism does originate from Persia. But now it is a regional holiday.
And if anyone wants to go specifically for Novruz, that is also ok. Because no one says to tourists in Vatican that “you shouldn’t come here, Christianity originates from middle east”.
It means New Year. Favardin is the first month of the year in the Shia calendar.
Novruz is just a name adopted, it’s actually ancient Turkic fest which even celebrating in Siberia and Syberian Turks which bordered with USA. I meant its impossible to be infulenced by persians or iranic peoples when you haven’t even proper contacts with even Turkic peoples. But they actually have. There is only Turkish people don’t celebrating Ergenekon holiday (in persian nowruz) We Turkic people has our own title and way of celebrating it. For example: Mart Dokuzu, Mart Bozumu (Turkey), Yaz Bayramı (Azerbaijan), Yeni Kün (Uzbekistan), Ulıstın Ulı Künü, Ulıs Künü (Kazak), Sabantoy (Nogay), Gollu, Saban Toy (Karachay-Balkar Alan), Nardugan, İrte Yaz, (Bashkurt), Nartukan also in Chuvash, Jılgayak (Altay), Chılpazı (Khakas), Isıah (Yakut-Sakha), Baba Marta, İlkyaz Yortusu (Gagauz), Mevris (Batı Trakya), Mart Dokuzu (Kıbrıs), Yeni Gün (Uygur), Gündönümü (Kırım)
Don’t try to own something which does exist in another folks. If you think it does only exist in iranic peoples but another peoples have not before. then research. Because once armenians tried to listing Lavash bread as an armenian traditional bread but 5 country including Iran, Azerbaijan and Turkey don’t let, becuase it exist in all of these countries. I hope I could explain what I wanted to mean 😉
I would like to visit Baku and walk around İçəri Şəhər one day.. Greetings from qardaş ölkə, Türkiye 🙂
Bir Millet Iki Devlet abi! Yuregimizin parchasisiz!)
Beautiful country
Мдэ я даже догадываюсь кто это писал. Обидно как- то, лол, вам бы лишь такие посты писать.
Perhaps this blog was very informative, displaying the good things about the country and all, BUT bear in mind you will see corruption in GYD Airport like you haven’t seen anywhere in Central Asian airports starting from the visa counter officers who will charge you USD 10 extra on Each passport, to the passport control officers who won’t give your passport back until you put a $20 bill in the passport, to the porters who will insist to take your luggage then claim for $15, to the taxi driver who will say his meter is out of service, and the airline agent who will ask for a “gift”.. etc. Everyone in will force you to pay bribery, or should I say ransom or as blackmail. This country’s officials should think again if they believe their tourism will survive another couple of years.
so can i assume with this logic that Azeri women are ugly as hell
i visit Baku 4 years ago and i visit it again i has been changed 360 degree it is much better than some west European country it is clean safe a lot to see and cheaper than most country, i am thinking to visit it again
Thank you very much! Welcome to Azerbaijan!
Great style of promoting 🙂
If you’re thinking about writing in sarcasm, please think again. ‘Cause you cannot do that. Make it clearer next time.
It is actually a pathetic place to go to. The people are rude and the tourism is very forced. The city is overall trying very hard to be touristy but lacks character. A waste of money. I wish I had gone somewhere else.