“The Guardian” published an article “Baku and beyond: a road-trip around Azerbaijan”

“The Guardian” published an article “Baku and beyond: a road-trip around Azerbaijan”

The "Guardian" published an article on Azerbaijan. Here is the some part of the article.

It is on the world's largest lake, has hillsides that sprout fire, and the national game is nerd. This is Azerbaijan. Proud winner of Eurovision and proudly independent since 1991, Azerbaijan is probably where the Vikings came from, and definitely has the most mud volcanoes in the world. But a herdsman living 2km from the volcanoes had never heard of them.

Baku has a pretty medieval core surrounded by an old city and a new one. Old Baku is elegant, with sturdy turreted and cupola'd stone buildings. New Baku is brash, boom-built and crowned by three almost-finished skyscrapers shaped like flames, for Azer means "fire". In between, there are rather a lot of concrete apartment blocks, gifts from the eastern bloc.

Tom Ford has three shops here; a babushka sells tomatoes from a doorway next to the Dior store; boys too young to shave drive around in Lamborghinis. Baku intends to become the Dubai of the Caspian, and its permissive atmosphere makes it more swingy than its neighbours.

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