Field Trip

Saturday was a perfect fall day in Baku. We opted for a day outside of the city. I desperately needed to see open land, smell fresh air and hear silence, or I might have gone crossed-eye. We set out mid-morning, with Hikmet at the helm and the dogs in the back of the SUV. An hour and a half later, we arrived at Gobustan, a small village known for pre-historic cave drawings and mud volcanoes.


(Sign, welcoming us to Gobustan)



(First sights in Gobustan: cow wandering the streets)



(Kyle and Bailey at the Gobustan cave drawings)



(Pre-historic caving drawings, a UNESCO World Heritage Site)



(The Massies, Kyle, Brooke, Zoey, Bailey, atop a lookout point at the Gobustan cave drawings)



(Sign in parking lot at cave drawings site: no grills, no cigarettes, no hookah pipes, no alcohol)



(Leaving cave drawings, driving toward mud volcanoes, shepherd with his flock)



(Mud volcano)



(Brooke at mud volcanoes)



(Another planet: mud volcanoes)



(Bailey and Zoey after enjoying the mud volcanoes - notice the mud-covered paws)



(Oil seeps from the ground near mud volcanoes; that's how much oil there is in Azerbaijan!)