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1 AZERBAIJAN
Azerbaijan is a destination with a low visiting cost when you consider the quality of accommodation, food and experiences on offer. Baku, with its Caspian Sea waterfront, is home to ambitious architecture, fascinating museums and a cosmopolitan atmosphere. You are still in Europe but, once outside Baku’s Unesco-listed heart, you’re in a mysterious landscape of mud volcanoes and burning earth. Visitors can travel into a hinterland with a mixture of rapidly developing towns and lost-in-time villages. The north and west of the country have the ever-present Caucasus as a backdrop, far from any crowds of visitors but always close to some of the most hospitable welcomes on offer anywhere.