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Showing posts with label Azerbaijan. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Azerbaijan. Show all posts

Tuesday, January 21, 2014

Xinaliq

Seven thousand feet up in the High Caucasus mountains in Azerbaijan is the village of Xinaliq. It's one of Europe's most isolated villages and they even have their own language as if to prove it.




The only fuel in the treeless mountains is dried cow dung. It's stacked and dried besides the houses.






I'm always surprised that kids around the world all learn to make these wire toys.


The entire economy of the village is based on sheep with almost every family owning some.



Friday, August 9, 2013

Heydar Aliyev Cultural Centre, Baku, Azerbaijan

The 'space age' Heydar Aliyev Cultural Centre in Baku was completed in 2012 and designed by Iraqi/british architect Zaha Hadid