Baku City Break: What to See and Do, Baku, Azerbaijan

Is Baku a good city break option? I say yes, but keep reading to decide for yourself. Baku is a city that seems to belong to two centuries. Young people enjoy modern clubs, wear trendy clothes and behave exactly what you’d expect from a 21st-century person. The older generations seem to still belong to the Soviet Union times with their on-street-tea-chats and indestructible Lada cars.

Even the city itself appears as if wasn’t sure to what century wants to belong. I am not only talking about the mix of architecture with the skyscrapers proudly overlooking the city and old neighbourhoods of once representing enormous wealth. There is so much to see beyond that.

I walked in Baku, walked a lot. Visiting cities on foot gives you this amazing opportunity to see and observe the real-life; people occupied by their daily chores and getting on with their business.

The faces say a lot. The history is written on them and no matter how modern Baku is becoming, they belong to two centuries.

While you can see most of the biggest attractions of Baku in one day, I think two days would be a perfect amount of time plus another day to do an excursion. However, you might only have time for a weekend escape. I based this guide on what I managed to see in two full days in Baku with a little bit of rush. Nowadays, Baku is easily accessible from many main cities in Europe and the Middle East. ...... (follow the instructions below for accessing the rest of this article).