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Welcome to Azerbaijan

The insider's travel guide to Azerbaijan

Travelling to Azerbaijan can be confusing. This is a country that is both European and Asian. Cosmopolitan capital Baku is full of designer shops and 21st-century architecture, but travel a couple of hours away and you can be in rural villages in the desert.

What Azerbaijan is blessed with — beyond the oil of the Caspian Sea — is natural beauty. There are snow-capped mountains and arid deserts, bubbling volcanoes and fire-brimmed hillsides. Yes, the contrasts can be jarring, but that’s all part of the appeal of this fast-changing country.

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12 Oct 2025

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Asked by: De

Are combined or cross-country walking holidays between these three countries possible at the moment?


Nune Taunts
Answered by: Nune Taunts

It's technically possible, but due to ongoing diplomatic tensions, it's much harder to organise (and therefore more expensive) to organise a cross-border walking holiday between Armenia and Azerbaijan than normal. You'll probably need two separate tour operators for Armenia/Georgia and Azerbaijan, and travel in the walking border regions and remote villages is under strict control of the security services, making cross-border inn-to-inn walking holidays trickier than normal.

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