{"id":16913,"date":"2022-02-04T08:25:00","date_gmt":"2022-02-04T06:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/againstthecompass.com\/?p=16913"},"modified":"2025-11-06T07:40:13","modified_gmt":"2025-11-06T05:40:13","slug":"things-to-do-in-baku","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/againstthecompass.com\/en\/things-to-do-in-baku\/","title":{"rendered":"Things to do in Baku in 3 days – A complete guide"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Until very recently, Baku, the capital of Azerbaijan, was a real off-the-beaten-track destination only known by the most intrepid travelers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Pierce Brosnan, in the James Bond movie The world is not enough<\/em>, was the first person who finally told us about its existence, when he showed images of some oil fields right in the desert plains around Baku.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Those images, however, didn’t really trigger any interest in the country, as people thought that, perhaps, Baku was not very different from the Arab Gulf monarchies, which was a really wrong approach.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Whereas it is true that Baku is an oil-rich city and, in fact, Azerbaijan was the top world exporter at the beginning of the 20th century, many years before the Gulf monarchies discovered the black gold, on the other hand, it is also a city with a very deep history, belonging to a region which has been inhabited for thousands of years, besides having an important role in the Silk Road<\/strong><\/a>, as well as, of course, being part of the USSR for nearly a century.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nevertheless, thanks to exponential development, Baku today is an almost futuristic city that manages to combine both tradition and modernity, two elements that can be seen together all across the city.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

After visiting Baku on two occasions, here is a complete Baku travel guide with all the best things to do in Baku<\/strong> in 3 days, including plenty of travel tips.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For more places to visit in the country, read my complete itinerary to Azerbaijan<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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In this Baku travel guide you will find:<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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