Azerbaijan
Azerbaijan is the stopover that keeps earning another day. Baku sets a UNESCO-listed medieval core against wind-bent modern towers, and the country behind it gets stranger and better — mud volcanoes, millennia-old petroglyphs, mountain villages up switchback roads. Fly in for two days; stay for four.
Best for
- Baku's old-and-new
- Caucasus day trips
- Stopovers that grow
- Curiosities
When to go
- Apr–Jun
- Spring: mild city days, green foothills.
- Sep–Oct
- The autumn mirror of it; our preferred light.
Photo: Marco Monelli · CC BY-SA 3.0