CURVESCOUT / MOTORCYCLE RIDE
Ordered leg totals agree within rounding. Stop distances are approximate sums of rounded legs. Stops, delays, approach and any separate return travel add time. Basis: producer-declared routed record.
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A 401 km round trip from Altıağac - roughly 6 h 11 in the saddle. On the way it passes Jinghindagh mountain -Yazylytepe hill, Walled City of Baku with the Shirvanshah's and back through Jinghindagh mountain -Yazylytepe hill. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 1,300 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available. The line favours views over speed.
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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Cultural Landscape of Khinalig People and is where the day begins. Next is Jinghindagh mountain -Yazylytepe hill.
Gobustan is a stony, wind-scoured landscape of low hills and mesas south of Baku, near the shores of the Caspian Sea, and on its rocks, people carved images over thousands of years: hunters with bows, boats with rowers, dancers, wild cattle, deer and goats. More than six thousand petroglyphs have been recorded here, dating back as far as the end of the last ice age, and the Gobustan Rock Art Cultural Landscape was listed by UNESCO in 2007.
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Jinghindagh mountain -Yazylytepe hill comes up about 141 km into the recorded legs. Next is Walled City of Baku with the Shirvanshah's.
Baku is windy by name and by nature, and the old walled city on the Caspian shore has been catching the wind for about a thousand years. Inside the walls, known locally as Icherisheher, a maze of narrow stone lanes winds between mosques, caravanserais and houses with carved balconies. The Maiden Tower, a stout round tower of mysterious age and purpose, rises near the sea, and the Palace of the Shirvanshahs, built in the fifteenth century as the residence of the rulers of Shirvan, sits on the hill above. UNESCO listed the walled city and the palace together in 2000.
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about 199 km into the recorded legs you reach Walled City of Baku with the Shirvanshah's. Next is back through Jinghindagh mountain -Yazylytepe hill.
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back through Jinghindagh mountain -Yazylytepe hill, late in the day. Next is Cultural Landscape of Khinalig People and.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Cultural Landscape of Khinalig People and write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Cultural Landscape of Khinalig People and. That is the ride.
Cultural Landscape of Khinalig People and → Jinghindagh mountain -Yazylytepe hill is 141 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Jinghindagh mountain -Yazylytepe hill → Walled City of Baku with the Shirvanshah's is 58 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Walled City of Baku with the Shirvanshah's → back through Jinghindagh mountain -Yazylytepe hill is 53 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Jinghindagh mountain -Yazylytepe hill → Cultural Landscape of Khinalig People and is 148 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.