After crossing the Caspian I explored some of the rather barren landscapes around Baku and ventured into the Caucasus Mountains in the northwest before taking the train to Tbilisi in Georgia and heading straight to Gori, where live the Makashvilis, close friends from previous trips to this wonderful country…
Read MoreIn November 2017 after dipping from Kyrgyzstan to Tajikistan I crossed west towards the Caucasus region by traversing a stint of the world that I've long wanted to do: a 72 hour train across the Kazakh steppe and then a 48 hour boat crossing of the Caspian Sea to Azerbaijan.
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