| Baku Azerbaijan -- Hot Sexy Supermodel Steph Ly |
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Steph Ly models a tight, sex y T-shirt with
the words Baku, Azerbaijan -- Baku is a safe,
sun-soaked, beautiful, seaside metropolis
with non-stop nightlife and trendy people.
Bet you didn't know you can happily live in
Baku speaking English, reading the local
English newspapers and magazines, until
you're ready to pick up the local lingo a
bit, and meeting sexy -- but respectable! --
babes at the countless British pubs,
international restaurants and discos, and
talking to tens of thousands of other people
flocking to this happening town to make
serious bucks, thanks to the lucrative oil
and gas industry. Did you know more than 500
skyscrapers have been built in Baku alone in
the past five years? Where is it? On a sunny,
seaside coast just east of Turkey (which is
just a hop and a skip away). Azerbaijan is
just as historic and fun as that
Mediterranean holiday paradise, and the food
is even better! Ever try pomegranate juice
with vodka? Azerbaijan has more vodkas than
many French towns have wine. Don't be a fool
-- come on down, like I did. It's got
incredible dining. They've been cooking like
kings since before there was an America. And
don't worry! They're Gringo-friendly.
Everybody wants to know if you know their
cousin who lives a block away from the Exxon
in downtown Cleveland or something like that.
Will they marry you? Dream on -- who'd want
to leave this paradise on earth. (Did I
mention the camping and mountain climbing?
The seaside hoildays. And best of all -- it's
an amazing bargain!) It's a holiday paradise
with great nature destinations, inexpensive
antiques, and the kind of world-secure,
secular confidence that comes from developing
as part of the former Soviet superpower days,
which locals are happy enough to put behind
them. See more of Stephanie and her love
affair with Azerbaijan here:
http://goingtoazerbaijan.blogspot.com/2006/10
/canadian-supermodel-stephanie-ly.html AND
visit the website of this beautiful and
talented model here: http://www.stephly.com .
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| Bakı gecələri (Baku nights) |
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Located on the southern shore of the Apsheron
peninsula, Azerbaijan's capital was founded
1,500 years ago. The first written reference
to Baku dates from 885, although
archaeologists have found remains of a
settlement predating by several centuries the
birth of Christ. The city became important
after an earthquake destroyed Shemakha and
the of the 12th century and the Shirvanshah,
Ahistan I, made Baku the new capital. There
are a few theories about the origin of the
name, the most widely known being that Baku
comes from bad kube, meaning "city of winds".
The climate is sunny and arid, with
gale-force winds that sweep through on
occasion, caused by masses of polar air. Baku
is located on the western shore of the
Caspian Sea and is Azerbaijan's largest city,
with wonderful beaches, spas and a striking
setting on the salty Caspian Sea.
The basis of Baku's economy is petroleum. The
existence of petroleum has been known since
the 8th century. By the 15th century oil for
lamps was obtained from surface wells.
Commercial exploitation began in 1872, and by
the beginning of the 20th century the Baku
oil field was the largest in the world.
Towards the end of the 20th century much of
the land's petroleum had been exhausted, and
drilling had extended into the sea. Baku
ranks as one of the largest centres for the
production of oil industry equipment. The
World War II Battle of Stalingrad was fought
to determine who would have control of the
Baku oil fields. Fifty years before the
battle, Baku supplied half of the world's oil
production.
In recent years oil has made the city
affluent again, but Baku is still a
conservative place. You don't see many women
covering their heads, but you'll notice many
small revealing details e.g. ladies go to the
toilet for a cigarette, couples don't kiss in
public...
Today's Baku is really three cities rolled
into one: the old town (icheri shekher), the
boomtown and the Soviet-built town.
The centre of Baku is the old town, which is
also a fortress. The walled city of Baku
became in December 2000 the first location in
Azerbaijan classified as world cultural site
by UNESCO. Most of the walls and towers,
strengthened after the Russian conquest in
1806, survive. This section is picturesque,
with its maze of narrow alleys and ancient
buildings. Wander the cobbled streets past
the Palace of the Shirvanshahs, two
caravansaraies (ancient inns), the
11th-century Maiden's Tower (nice view of the
harbour), the baths and the Djuma Mosque (it
used to house the exquisite Carpet and
Applied Arts Museum, but now is a Mosque
again... and by the way the carpets are now
at the former V.I. Lenin museum). The old
town also has dozens of small mosques, often
without any particular sign to distinguish
them from the next building.
The boomtown, south of the old city, was
built after massive oil exploitation began
nearly a century ago and has interesting
beaux-arts architecture. Fine arts, history
and literature museums are located there, all
housed in the mansions of pre-Revolutionary
millionaires.
Modern Baku, mainly a Soviet brain-child
spreads out from the walls, its streets and
buildings rising up hills that rim the Bay of
Baku. The flow money brought by the oil
industry in the 21st century changed the
skyline, with numerous tall building of
doubtful architecture and quality framing the
city.
Greater Baku is divided into 11 districts and
48 townships. Among these are townships on
islands in the bay and one island town built
on stilts in the Caspian Sea, 100 kilometres
from Baku proper ('Oil Rocks').
If you have a the stamina, it is worth
walking uphill to the Martyr's Cemetery,
formerly the Kirov park (there is also a
funicular, but it's often out of order, so
you better take a taxi). This area is now
dedicated to the memory of those who lost
their lives during the war with Armenia and
also to the 137 people who were killed on 19
& 20 January 1990 when Soviet tanks and
troops took to the streets of Baku.
Photographs of victims featured on each
tomb-stone are sobering and poignant. Now 20
January has become a national holiday of deep
emotional meaning.
Many expats working oil industry in the oil
industry are to be found around Baku, but
tourists are still a rare sight. The
government has be busy campaigning abroad,
but Baku and Azerbaijan are still not
'tourist ready'. However things are changing
and Baku boasts its first tourism information
center, at Hajibeyov St. 36, created with the
support of the United Nations Development
Program (UNDP).
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