2018

Baku and Ganja

Caspian oil, plov, and pun compliance

The Azerbaijan edition: Baku, Ganja, Flame Towers, Caspian oddness, plov, oil-bath mythology, and a destination name that did not require much help.

Status

Completed

Starts

1 Oct 2018

Ends

4 Oct 2018

Destinations

Destination record

Baku Main Session
Baku, Azerbaijan
Long leg1 Oct 2018 to 4 Oct 2018
Flame Towers, Caspian Sea, old-city texture, and enough oil-state futurism to become an exhibit category.
Ganja Extension
Ganja, Azerbaijan
Long leg1 Oct 2018 to 4 Oct 2018
Pun value, onward-route value, and a canonical reminder that ICOM names sometimes write themselves.

Flame Towers lick at a petroleum sky. Old City lanes smell of saffron and diesel; a Lada coughs heroically up a hill it shouldn’t manage.

Shared archive for images and videos from this trip.

No media has been uploaded for this trip yet.

Official highlight

Baku and Ganja supplied Caspian energy, plov, and a high ratio of jokes per mile travelled.

Baku Main Session
Flame Towers, Caspian Sea, old-city texture, and enough oil-state futurism to become an exhibit category.
Ganja Extension
Pun value, onward-route value, and a canonical reminder that ICOM names sometimes write themselves.

Field notes

Canonical trip record seeded from the ICOM lore bible. Awaiting delegate media, captions, attendance, and sanctions.