Shootin’ the Sheki
This is a post from MonkBoughtLunch - A budget travel blog from Central Asia, the Silk Road, and beyond.. Lonely Planet would have you believe that Sheki is the crown jewel of traveling in Azerbaijan,...
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This is a post from MonkBoughtLunch - A budget travel blog from Central Asia, the Silk Road, and beyond.. As beautiful as the Old Town of Lahic looks, my favorite selling point of the city was the...
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This is a post from MonkBoughtLunch - A budget travel blog from Central Asia, the Silk Road, and beyond.. As disappointed as I was by the Qobustan Mud Volcanoes, I was equally pleasantly surprised by...
View ArticleUp, Down, and Around Again – Hiking in Xinaliq
This is a post from MonkBoughtLunch - A budget travel blog from Central Asia, the Silk Road, and beyond.. Easily my favorite little town in Azerbaijan, Xinaliq village is one of my shining-est memories...
View ArticleWorld Nomad Games in Kyrgyzstan: A Nomad Olympics
This is a post from MonkBoughtLunch - A budget travel blog from Central Asia, the Silk Road, and beyond.. World Nomad Games in Kyrgyzstan: An Olympics for Nomadic Cultures If you’ve been following my...
View ArticleLahic Azerbaijan Guesthouse Dance Party
This is a post from MonkBoughtLunch - A budget travel blog from Central Asia, the Silk Road, and beyond.. One of the nights I spent in Lahic, the family who owned the guesthouse Jason and I were...
View ArticleXinaliq Azerbaijan :The Little Hilltop Village that Saved my Opinion of the...
This is a post from MonkBoughtLunch - A budget travel blog from Central Asia, the Silk Road, and beyond.. After a ton of bad experiences and disappointments in the rest of Azerbaijan, it took one...
View ArticleQobustan Mud Volcanoes!
This is a post from MonkBoughtLunch - A budget travel blog from Central Asia, the Silk Road, and beyond.. See that exclamation point in the title up there? Thats the most excited sentence you’ll see in...
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