Tuesday, March 10, 2009

BLOG: Absheron Peninsula day-trippin' (joestrippin.blogspot.com)

Baku, the capital of Azerbaijan, sits on a jetty of land thrust out into the Caspian Sea. But the Absheron Peninsula is home to much more than just the country's capital. The word Absheron consists of a few parts. Ab means water, shour means salty and an is the suffix that makes nouns plural in Persian. So, the combination of these words comes out to mean "place of salty water". There were a few sights worth checking out, so on a day off i headed into the unknown.

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