Quba Travel Blogs

The weather had been uncharacteristically warm for almost an entire week here in the oft neglected north-east corner of Azerbaijan.  During this time, so I’ve heard, the snow is usually at least 20 feet high, the sun never shines and everybody is sad.  I’m not sure if that is a local …

From Baku, I went north in a totally packed marshrutka (Soviet style minivan) to a town called Sumqayit. This place actually is the third largest city in Azerbaijan and it is famous for its abandoned factories and industrial wastelands. The two reasons that made me decide going here were to see thi…