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Route in China (AZERBAIJAN)
Bec2004-09-20 10:03:39
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Baku
The Promenade is a lively place with amusement park rides and a variety of cafes and restaurants from which to watch to world go by. Here I am having dinner with Michel and Daniel, two Frenchmen here on business that I met by chance on the street.
Several buildings in Baku have an architectural style I have seen nowhere else. The Government House on the waterfront ploshchad Lenina is an example.
The divan-khana or law courts inside the 15th century Palace of the Shirvan Shahs. Below on the left, the minaret of the royal Mosque in the same palace and the "Maiden's Tower" on the right. The tower has been dated back to the 12th century but nobody knows why the 30 meter tower was built the way it was with a stone buttress on its south-east side. Legends abound and that bit of mystery makes it more interesting.
Finally, another view of the Maiden's Tower next to another example of Baku's unique architecture.
I had been forced to fly into Baku but nothing stopped me from taking a bus to my next stop, Tbilisi in Georgia. That leg turned out much better than I had expected as I was able to get on a modern Turkish operated Volvo bus going all the way to Istanbul. It left at 5:00 PM and dropped me off in Tbilisi at 4:00 AM the next day.
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