A country · 84 places · 8 regions
Azerbaijan, all of it.
84 curated places across 8 regions — photographed, mapped, and noted with the season each is best in.
The 4 biggest regions — Ismayilli District, Guba District, Shamakhi District and Astara District — read below as chapters, with 4 more waiting past them.
Chapter I · Ismayilli District · 3 places
Ismayilli District
A historic hillside settlement in the foothills of Azerbaijan known for silk kelaghayi headscarf making. Cobbled lanes and old stone houses climb the slope amid orchards and vineyards.
via Wikimedia CommonsChapter II · Guba District · 2 places
Guba District
One of the highest permanently inhabited villages in the Caucasus at approximately 2,200 meters, Khinalig occupies a bare mountain ridge in the Quba district of northern Azerbaijan. The community speaks the Khinalig language, classified as a language isolate distinct from all neighboring tongues, and the stone houses of the village step up the ridge in a compact cluster with flat roofs serving as terraces for those above. The surrounding landscape of open mountain steppe and the visual isolation of the village against the high Caucasus backdrop make it one of the most scenically remote settlements in Azerbaijan.
✦ June to September · $
Chapter III · Shamakhi District · 2 places
Shamakhi District
The largest national park in Azerbaijan, protecting alpine meadows and forests along the Greater Caucasus. It shelters wildlife such as the East Caucasian tur across its high ridges.
via Wikimedia CommonsChapter IV · Astara District · 1 place
Astara District
A protected expanse of ancient relict forest in the Talysh Mountains near the Caspian coast. Its rare temperate broadleaf woodland shelters leopards and species surviving from before the ice ages.
✦ April to October
Regions of Azerbaijan
Every place in Azerbaijan
