To whom the first step in the idea of drifting off the road at the "fives", "six" and other masterpieces of the Soviet Auto industry, none of the locals no longer remember. But the joke, invented jokes, turned into a profitable business. Today they are engaged in drivers who know a lot in extreme ride, and nontrivial fun is popular both from guests from Russia and tourists from far abroad. What about the volcano? He is small, he is small, and in his train bouffals the clay of fashionable metallic. By the way, its temperature is suitable for taking mud baths. True, practicing ThalassoproCousts in the fresh air is solved by units. The cause is banal. Lack of opportunity to quickly take a shower. Yes, within walking distance there is a lake, only after swimming in the volcano to him, the eagle does not share, and the hare will not achieve, because the clay freezes on the body in the blink of an eye, and the person immediately turns into a revived golem.
Maiden Tower - Ancient Building Baku
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From the depths of centuries
A trip to the volcano Most of the guests of Azerbaijan is combined with a visit to Gobustan - a reserve, where prehistoric rock paintings have been preserved. Some of them are already about twenty-five thousand years. The fact that the place is not easy, the locals guess, but the first to study Gobustistan in detail and draw the descriptions of Petroglyphs at the end of the thirties of the XX century Archaeologist Iskhak Jafarzade. By the way, scientific work in the reserve was not discontinued, because only part of its territory is available to visit tourists, scientists work in the others. If you think that seeing rock painting is easy - I hurry to disperse you. Here we need a snarling, because in the past millennium, the drawings thoroughly erased. But when the eye gets used to, on monumental red rocks, suddenly begin to appeal the silhouettes of hunters, loose goats, and figures of a strange form, symbolizing the women's origin. And of course, images of the sun. Ancient deified heavenly shining. Find out the age of drawings archeologists help two circumstances. First, the material of the guns with which they were applied. The oldest are made with sharp stone, younger - bronze instruments. However, the size of the petroglyph is no less indicative. The ancient layers did not hear about the scale and proportions, and painted animals and people in full growth. The most curious petroglyph of Gobustan is a ship resembling a viking lady. It is dated to the second millennium BC, and scientists to this day argue, where the unknown artist could see him. The Norwegian archaeologist Tour Heyerdal pushed himself a hypothesis that the Scandinavians could come to Northern Europe from Azerbaijan, but until she received confirmation.
Center Heydar Aliyev - the embodiment of modern designer fantasies
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Song flames
Another location in the vicinity of Baku is the burning mountain of Yanardag. The flame of the eternal flame is about nine meters in the width of steles along the limestone surface of the hill. It does not go out for several thousand years. It is not surprising that fireplongs and Zoroastrians lived in Azerbaijan. In Baku, even there is a temple of these two denominations, however, today it functions more as a museum. Meanwhile, in the XIX century, fireproofers in the capital of Azerbaijan could be met, about them, for example, mentioned Alexander Duma in their notes. The Maiden Tower is the most ancient building Baku - also with fire crystals is connected directly. If you look at it from a certain angle, you will notice that its form remotely resembles flames. Moreover, one of the rooms of the tower on the day of spring equinox is filled with bright sunlight. These facts allow scientists to assume that in the old century, the construction not only performed the functions of the lighthouse, the observatory and was used for the defense of the city, but also was a temple where pagan ceremonies were held.
Mud volcanoes will differ even experienced travelers
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In the footsteps Gaiday
Tourists from Russia on arrival in Baku make the next ritual: sitting on a blocking on Kichik Qala Street, pull the leg and shout: "Damn it!". Yes, it was the capital of Azerbaijan that performed the role of Istanbul - the city of contrasts in the "diamond hand". The shooting was carried out in the old town and near the Palace of Shirvanshakhov - the residence of the Government of the Shirvan, built in the period from the XIII to the XV century. But the fortress walls surrounding the palace, already lit up in another masterpiece of the Soviet cinema - the film "Man-Amphibian". It was on them that Guttleire and Ihtyander were sitting on them, and, by the way, the fact that the creators of the paintings turned Baku to Buenos Aires, not so illogical, as might think. They themselves, the capital of Argentina is often called Paris of Latin America. Baku was often called Paris of the Caucasus in the past, because the avenue of oilmen and most of the city center were built at the end of the XIX century by French architects, who arrived here during the oil boom. The modern part of the city resembles Dubai: the same heights of glass and concrete, shining "Baku Crystal Hall", the center of Heydar Aliyev, erected by the CHAY project Hadid, and the flame tower: three skyscrapers in the form of fire languages that are highlighted at night. However, today Baku is firmly intended to catch up and overtake the Emirates. For example, now the construction of a building is being built in the city, which should leave far below the famous Burj Khalify Tower in Dubai. The height of only eight hundred twenty-eight meters, and the Azerbaijani giant will grow one kilometer and fifty-four centimeters. Not really?