I'm stuck in Baku for three days for a teachers conference that is going to be extraordinarily boring, but the hotel they put us up in is awesome so I get free wifi connection at high speed all week. I'm going to just post pictures randomly for the next few days as I have time, and I'll provide detailed explanations some time in the distant future...or never. This first round of pics is from my trip to Zagatala and Balaken last weekend. Zagatala is a town way up in the mountains, close to the border of Georgia and Russia, and Balaken is north of Zag literally right on the border. They are fairly liberal areas compared to the rest of conservative Azerbaijan, and the mountains and scenery are beautiful. Balaken has a huge Heydar Aliyev (the former president) park with a gondola from the big hill at the end and some carnival rides at the bottom. Also across from the park they have the coolest bar I've ever seen in this country, with tables made out of giant tree stumps and bear and wolk skins hanging on the walls.
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