CURVESCOUT / MOTORCYCLE RIDE
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430 km from Baku to Baku, about 6 h 28 of riding. It goes by way of Kichikdash mountain, Cultural Landscape of Khinalig People and, back through Cultural Landscape of Khinalig People and and back through Kichikdash mountain. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 1,300 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available. It suits an unhurried touring pace.
Baku is a city of wind. The name is often said to come from a Persian phrase meaning a place battered by winds, and anybody who has stood on the Caspian boulevard on a bad day will believe it. The city curves around a bay on the western shore of the sea, with a medieval walled core, Icherisheher, rising behind the seafront, and the modern glass of the Flame Towers high above, lit by moving flames in the evening that can be seen from far across the water.
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Baku is where the day begins. Next is Kichikdash mountain.
The plateau of Gobustan is a dry, stony place, grey and ochre, with boulders scattered across low hills as if a giant had emptied a bag of rubble and left. Kichikdash, whose name means Little Stone, is one of those hills, a rocky outcrop in the reserve a few kilometres from the town of Qobustan, with the Caspian Sea visible in the distance on a clear day. Its bigger neighbour is Boyukdash, Big Stone, and together they hold some of the oldest pictures in the Caucasus.
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Kichikdash mountain comes up 63 km in. Next is Cultural Landscape of Khinalig People and.
The Greater Caucasus in Azerbaijan is a wall of limestone and shale that rises abruptly from the Caspian lowlands, and at its heart lives one of the oldest and most isolated communities in the country. The Khinalig people speak a language found nowhere else, farm and herd at over two thousand metres, and live in stone houses with flat roofs that sit so close together that you can walk from one yard to the next across the rooftops. The village is among the highest permanently inhabited places in Europe, and in winter the snow can cut it off for days.
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At least 140 km in you reach Cultural Landscape of Khinalig People and.
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Cultural Landscape of Khinalig People and, about halfway. Next is back through Cultural Landscape of Khinalig People and.
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back through Cultural Landscape of Khinalig People and sits at 252 km, about halfway. Next is back through Kichikdash mountain.
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back through Kichikdash mountain comes up 315 km in. Next is Baku.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Baku write-up.
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Baku closes the day.
Baku → Kichikdash mountain is 76 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Kichikdash mountain → Cultural Landscape of Khinalig People and is 113 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
back through Cultural Landscape of Khinalig People and → back through Kichikdash mountain is 113 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
back through Kichikdash mountain → Baku is 76 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.