Azerbaijan is a nice place for a vacation, yes, but Azerbaijan is a perfect place for people who love history. There are historical monuments in every region of Azerbaijan, exploring them as a foreigner is fun, educational and adds excitement to your vacation. Moreover, Azerbaijan is famous not for its cities but for its lush green forests and natural villages with clean air, It's a very peaceful place and the people there are very friendly to foreigners.
From what I heard, the hospitality there is as grand as the palaces, and 'tea time' can last longer than some sitcoms. Oh, and if you can correctly pronounce 'Baku,' you'll instantly earn a round of applause and a pat on the back. Welcome to a land where history meets modernity with a side of saffron. Kidding aside, I hope my travel dart would land here because this country indeed seems pretty unique!
I am an Azerbaijani and I apologize to you on behalf of my country for being defrauded. Unfortunately, the officials at the airport act indifferently towards everyone. If you want to come to our country again, please use a taxi application. This will prevent you from being defrauded to a large extent, because when you choose where you want to go from the map, the application will tell you how much money you need to pay. will show. (Bolt, Uber, Yango)
@@user07771 Men bakı kartı demirem, taksiler başını aldadıb çox pul alıb. İngilis dili zeif olan birisi hava limanında niye işdiyir? hava limanında sadece Azerbaycanlı veya Türk olmur her ölkeden insanlar gelir ve ingilis dili globaldır, sennen olduğun yeri soruşanda Dünyadayam demeyin qeder menasız cavab verdi.
Hi from warm capital of Georgia (not state of america but country georgia) Tbilisi, here is still warm about 23-28 degrees day time . with love to our azerbaijanian sisters and brothers
@@b.s.m7657 The mountain belt protects Georgia from the cold northern winds and the Black Sea breeze creates a subtropical climate, so Georgia is warmer in winter than any post-Soviet country.
That bus/transport card issue could have been easily avoided by a decent response from the information desk instead of the lifeless and useless "outside" - that was suprisingly poor service from someone whose job description is to provide help to tourists.
Really looking forward to seeing your videos from Azerbaijan! What a cool place to visit. Thank you for all the hard work you put into making these videos and for your amazing channel! Thank you! Thank you!
As far as I know, 🇰🇼 is the only country where people aren't punished to pay taxes, so with that law, I think Kuwait should be one of the nest countries for sure
Azerbaijan and Central Asia are on my bucket list. Nice seeing you go to a new place. Side note, my dad went to Baku once back way back in the mid 90s for a conference. It was just several years after its independence and had just started modernizing itself. Never heard of Azerbaijan back then, now it’s a place i want to go to.
i read all comments... and to the ones who wrote not to go to azerbaijan, i would like to ask, where can he go? i am swiss, living in germany. well switzerland is known as democracy, ok, is true... BUT not always what was said by the swiss will be done by the government. in the last years i wrote twice to the bundesrat just because of this. in which country could gabriel go? in which country you never had problems of the right of humans beeing? HE IS A TRAVELER, not a politician! i am sure, that he has his own opinion, like you all and myself as well. this is a traveller blog, not a politic one. i hope, that we all can make the difference. peace and love to all of you from a really old women. for you gabriel, thanks, stay safe further on and ❤.
Wellcome to Baku and you will be shocked. We have very hospitable people and it is very safe, even at night you can walk around the city without any worries. Older people are treated with special respect
You made it to yet another country! I was in Azerbaijan for only 4 days in 2019 and visited only the area around Baku, but thats a very big "only", around Baku there is the mud volcanos, the Gobustan ancient settlement, the burning mountain and the fire temple (Atesgah). Some fun facts about Azerbaijan, despite the majority being formally Muslim, it is a huge friend of Israel and probably one of the most irreligious countries in the world outside of Europe, and the currency the Azerbaijani manat is fixed to the US dollar with a fixed value that pretty much doesn't change, and the majority of ethnic Azerbaijanis does not live in the Republic of Azerbaijan, but in neighbouring Iran. Looking forward to more videos from this amazing country! So what's next? You could for example go on from there over to Kazakhstan and Mongolia, neither of them too far away. There should be ferries from Baku to Aktau, Kazakhstan but I heard the constantly changing timetables are notoriously hard to find, maybe a flight is easier. What a pity about the card, I hate when ATM's only dispense high value bills.
@@GabrielTravelerVideos All of these places are very near Baku, you could rent a car and see them all in the same day! The burning mountain and the mud volcanos are like completely out of this world places, an absolute must see!
@@GabrielTravelerVideos , for this week, have you heard of third largest city in Azerbaijan, named Ganja? :D It seems interesting through pictures, I must say. :)
There are so many young people you can find online who can help you to avoid any misunderstood and inform you during your journey for free. Hope you enjoyed, we are glad to see you here
Oh my gosh Gabriel, I stayed at exactly the same hotel! I immediately recognised the interior of the room - I stayed in a different room but the wallpaper and the furniture gave it away :) I'll never forget the large Azerbaijan and Turkish flags just above the staircase in the reception area. During the day, I recommend walking along the promenade where you will have an amazing view of some of the buildings. Nizami Street is always a winner too. May I also recommend the Museum of Miniature Books which showcases the smallest book in the world. Enjoy filming in this country, it was one of my favourites to film for sure.
Hello, I am from Azerbaijan. I hope you had a good time while you were here. Here is some information for others who want to visit Baku. If you are visiting for one week, a maximum of 10 manats is enough for a Baku card. It's unfortunate that you spent 100 manats on it. Also, regarding taxi at 11:09 second, they are likely overcharging; it should only cost around 5 manats to go there. I apologize for this as an Azerbaijani, try to use Bolt or Uber. For other tourists, please consider these things and ask regular people outside instead of taxi drivers. They will surely help you.
@@nargizgasanova6222 yolumun üstündür deyə hər səhər oradan gedirəm və həmişə turistlər pəncərədən çox maraqla baxır. Belə "scam" etməkləri turistləri çox pisdir.
@@nargizgasanova6222vallah onu özümüzkilere de edirler. şəxsən neçə dəfə mənə də yüksək qiymət deyiblər mən imtina etmişəm, sadece turistdi deye ona çox da baha gəlməyib.
Just a small suggestion from a fellow traveler. Try to always do a bit of research on how to get from an airport to a city center before you arrive. Also, check if you can use Uber or Bolt if you are around Europe and Eurasia. That would let you avoid confusion with cab drivers especially where English is poorly understood.
With his cat,s eye night vision can even spot ruins in the dark.😻 . That restaurant was so pleasant amazing dish, so different. Looking forward to more.😊❤
Baku means windy in local dialect from turkic language family. I spent half a year in Baku in air defence school when I was a conscript for the Soviet Army. Pishi in English means write the address of hotel in English. Russian is still an international language in the former Soviet republics.
@@vitalitihomirov5781 I feel myself neither turkic nor persian, I'm just from Azerbaijan, I love my country because I born here. I have no religion as well I don't believe man made things,
Yea very good tip cheers. Is that with Wizz Air by any chance I know u can go 2 some fascinating countries but u have to change in Europe if travelling from UK
@@30jkb what about 500.000 ethnic Azerbaijanis than been displaced from those lands by Armenian occupant terrorists in 1992? Unlike Azerbaijan, they didn’t offer them stay, they didn’t provide them with medicare and the other supplies. They displaced Azerbaijanis by killing them, torturing them, raping them, robbing them. Feel the difference. Azerbaijan established justice! It’s a victory if the good over the evil. Long live Azerbaijan!
@@30jkbby your stupid logic, we shouldn’t visit any country, especially the UK or the USA that invaded and killed millions. I’m not even talking about ex-nazi Germany 😃 Get a life, man.
@@30jkb nobody sent them, they chose to leave because they wanted to keep the spoils of the ethnic cleansing they had conducted against azerbaijanis. they didn't hide they were not going to live together with them. too bad but it's their choice.
I am pleasantly surprised and pleased that Azerbaijan is your next country … Travel vlogs are my passion on UA-cam mostly all I watch and recently started to watch Davud Akanzada who’s from there and it was great to see a man from Pakistan there because most Indian people have never heard of it from his vids anyway
You must have seen a lot of those cool taxi's in London? They are the electric version of the London Black Cab, but in a different colour! It is surprising to see so many there, they are not cheap at around £56000 new😲 maybe electricity prices there are cheap?
If you have your next trip to Azerbaijan, I would advise you to find someone on the Internet who will welcome you and help you get around the city. It will be easier and more interesting for you. Because most people do not know English well.
For anyone's information before commenting and scaremongering about safety in "the region", Azerbaijan is NOT in the Middle East but in the Caucasus region between West Asia and Eastern Europe in the former Soviet Union, the cold weather mentioned should be a hint. The Caucasus and the Middle East are 2 entirely different regions, both with their own pretty serious problems but unrelated. Baku is a perfectly safe city for the record, the kind of city where you can walk around safely at night. As for countries that are too dangerous for travel as in a major risk of not returning home alive, there are only about 20 of them (out of some odd 200 countries) in the world, max. That's about it, really. Just stop scaremongering.
And of course, you did not mention a single word about the horrific crimes against humanity committed by dictator Aliyev on ethnic Armenians of Artsakh.
@@yon4209 what are you talking about? the horrific crimes were committed by armenians against Azerbaijanis, including Khojaly genocide. and the deliberate night-time bombings of civilians in Ganja and Barda. Aliyev did everything right, he liberated Azerbaijan's lands and did it in the most possibly humane way - armenians should be thankful they were not repaid in the same currency
@@yon4209 armenians, occupied the internationally recognized border of Azerbaijan, for 30 years,backed by Russia. Now the occupation is over and justice has been served.
Hi Gabriel, Interesting choice of traveling to Azerbaijan I realize it's a new country you're traveling to of course many unfamiliar places to see and experience for yourself and your viewers looking forward to seeing the city. It's going to be interesting to see your take as you go into the city. I wonder if you have some locations that you intend to see as soon as you can. Anything that other viewers have mentioned to take in and enjoy you do have some money on a metro card to travel around the city's transit system there must be some locations to see while visiting the main city of Baku.
To travel on the metro or buses, you need to buy a card. You can buy a card for 3 trips or a permanent one. In addition, you need to put a certain amount of money on it, considering that one trip around the city costs 0,5 AZN. Keep in mind that money from the card is not returned, but the card itself can be returned when leaving Baku.
And from what I can see train fares are 0.30. Can't see you making 300 trips in a few days. Maybe see if you can get a refund, or transfer credit to someone else for cash.
As a half Bulgarian, I was surprised that I could understand the taxi driver telling you to write on the phone. He was saying "pishi" which is the same in Bulgarian. I guess it might be because of the presence of some Turkish words in Bulgarian and probably in Azerbaijani too, but who knows
@@RovexHD All right, mistery solved. I was considering as an option that the taxi driver was trying to talk in Russian with Gabriel but scrapped it at the end as less likely. Indeed in Georgia, I used my Bulgarian understanding and the few Russian words I know to get around...
I believe you could get refund for that. You just have to approach help desks at one of the metro stations (there is one at 28 May station). You can return the card and its balance should be refundable. As for the ride from the airport to the city center, you can take uber or bolt. Both are quite affordable. Should range between 10-20manats. Be careful however, some taxi drivers can try to charge you more with some excuses. If you use bus or metro, only add 10 manats or so to your card balance. You can use the same card for more than one person.
Nice to see your new country and new former USSR. It is also interesting that the third largest city in this country is named Ganja and it seems like super amazing through pictures. :)
I am not a traveler. But I will research the country I will visit beforehand. I learn how the metro bus works. I will go and see where the hotel is. I'm interested in the money of the country I'm going to. After that, I'll check taxi prices. I research what taxi programs there are. I mean, it surprised even me that someone who had traveled to so many countries was so ignorant.
Doing all that research online in advance will take a lot longer than just figuring it out when you get there. Since I travel constantly I don't usually have a lot of down time somewhere to spend hours trying to figure out bus schedules and metro stations and taxi prices in foreign countries. And I already spend hours every day online and on my computer editing videos and managing my channel. So I have no interest in spending more time trying to figure out all this stuff online, when I know based on years of experience doing this that I'll figure it out on the ground when I get there. I made a video talking about this: ua-cam.com/video/qrqBkKFkQLw/v-deo.html
20:44 you should've bought some juice or something on the airport to get change and use it on the bus, but you know flying around from country to country can be stressful
2:52 ''OUTSIDE!'' The buses are outside? No sh!t Sherlock!!! And there was me thinking you could flag one down inside the mens toilet! I can't believe she works on the Tourist Information desk. She's about as helpful as a dissolving Durex!
I’m from Azerbaijan. As an Azerbaijani, I can say that this behavior was not pleasant at all. We are hospitable and helpful people. This behavior did not suit us
When I saw Gabe is now in Azerbaijan, this line from the LOTR movie popped into my head, when Pippin says: The closer we are to danger, the farther we are from harm.
Man, i'm so sorry that you've had those problems. Can't believe the half of the video was just for reaching your hotel😅. It's always good to have someone as a guide to help you when u go to explore a new country. As a matter of fact, to any country right now, coz wherever u travel in these days, they just wanna take all your money😅.
25:27 Another fun fact: The Azerbaijan word "zeytun" (olive) is related to the Spanish word for olive, "aceituna". These languages (among many others) borrowed it from the Arabic "(az-)zaytūn". Thanks for the video.
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Azerbaijan is a nice place for a vacation, yes, but Azerbaijan is a perfect place for people who love history. There are historical monuments in every region of Azerbaijan, exploring them as a foreigner is fun, educational and adds excitement to your vacation. Moreover, Azerbaijan is famous not for its cities but for its lush green forests and natural villages with clean air, It's a very peaceful place and the people there are very friendly to foreigners.
Hello i am from Azerbaijan and thanks a lot. Also i want to know you who have good opinion about Azərbaycan
From what I heard, the hospitality there is as grand as the palaces, and 'tea time' can last longer than some sitcoms. Oh, and if you can correctly pronounce 'Baku,' you'll instantly earn a round of applause and a pat on the back. Welcome to a land where history meets modernity with a side of saffron. Kidding aside, I hope my travel dart would land here because this country indeed seems pretty unique!
Welcome to Azerbaijan. We are always glad to see all guests.
It is a good country for someone from a foreign country. But not for those who live there...
@@Kamish_143 If you are unhappy here, you may live in any other country. But you cannot speak for other people living in Azerbaijan.
I am an Azerbaijani and I apologize to you on behalf of my country for being defrauded. Unfortunately, the officials at the airport act indifferently towards everyone. If you want to come to our country again, please use a taxi application. This will prevent you from being defrauded to a large extent, because when you choose where you want to go from the map, the application will tell you how much money you need to pay. will show. (Bolt, Uber, Yango)
Sağolasin
@@user07771 Men bakı kartı demirem, taksiler başını aldadıb çox pul alıb.
İngilis dili zeif olan birisi hava limanında niye işdiyir? hava limanında sadece Azerbaycanlı veya Türk olmur her ölkeden insanlar gelir ve ingilis dili globaldır, sennen olduğun yeri soruşanda Dünyadayam demeyin qeder menasız cavab verdi.
@@CastiMta taksiciler ele bizede yüksek qiymet deyir de, ona göre bolt uber filan işlədirik, guya bize 10-15 man demirlər??
@@user07771 Mene burda nağıl danışma, dediyim kelimede sehv yoxdu.
@@CastiMta uçda sen canı mağarana)) adam ol adam kimi yaz. bambılı
Azerbaijan is a very secular, tolerant country. Baku is a very beautiful and safe big city❤
safe? mezelenme
I looked up Azerbaijan because I'm interested in the music, I am happy I got some at the end
OMG I'm from Baku and I'm super happy to see other tourists coming to our country
We have very very tourist.For example Indian, Pakistanian and Arabian
Sumqayıta gəlməli idi
@@AzadBakirlivery very???
@@user07771olanda olur baş qoşma 😂
@@Hu_MiNasosnuya
Hi from warm capital of Georgia (not state of america but country georgia) Tbilisi, here is still warm about 23-28 degrees day time . with love to our azerbaijanian sisters and brothers
It was chilly this morning in Saburtalo....
Really? Instead of standing firm with Armenia, that's what you choose to write after a horrific ethnic cleansing in Artsakh?
@@jimsbooksreadingandstuff yes this two day in the early morning time ,but since tommorrow will be even +29 degrees at 21 october
Is it still warm out there in Tbilisi? Good for you guys. I thought you have even colder weather because of mountainous area of Tbilisi...
@@b.s.m7657 The mountain belt protects Georgia from the cold northern winds and the Black Sea breeze creates a subtropical climate, so Georgia is warmer in winter than any post-Soviet country.
That bus/transport card issue could have been easily avoided by a decent response from the information desk instead of the lifeless and useless "outside" - that was suprisingly poor service from someone whose job description is to provide help to tourists.
I thought she was extremely rude.
That would have interrupted her facebook chatter time if she engaged with helpful information....lol
Seems to be a common thing in Azerbaijan. Same happened to me in Baku this year. The lack of help at the airport was astonishing.
As an Azeri I am telling she is in her bad day. Usually they are very nice and hospitable.
Not the best welcome to the country.
Welcome to Pearl of Caucasus Azerbaijan🇦🇿🔥
Great to see you in Baku! Look forward to learning more about Azerbaijan.
Really looking forward to seeing your videos from Azerbaijan! What a cool place to visit. Thank you for all the hard work you put into making these videos and for your amazing channel! Thank you! Thank you!
Hi Gabriel. Welcome to Azerbaijan. The old city wall (19:30) was built by Shirvanshah state. (XII century).
yes i am too live azerbaijan
Good to see people in a beautiful Baku city unlike Kuwait. Happy!
As far as I know, 🇰🇼 is the only country where people aren't punished to pay taxes, so with that law, I think Kuwait should be one of the nest countries for sure
Azerbaijan and Central Asia are on my bucket list. Nice seeing you go to a new place.
Side note, my dad went to Baku once back way back in the mid 90s for a conference. It was just several years after its independence and had just started modernizing itself. Never heard of Azerbaijan back then, now it’s a place i want to go to.
Welcome to Azerbaijan 🇦🇿❤
Bring dad with you,he will not believe his eyes ,everything changed since 90s.
You should try to meet this famous guy on UA-cam that cooks from Azerbaijan 🇦🇿. His channel is called wilderness cooking.
he is in Qebele.
@@user07771 got it
I just love learning about all these corners of the world, what a cool country
i read all comments... and to the ones who wrote not to go to azerbaijan, i would like to ask, where can he go? i am swiss, living in germany. well switzerland is known as democracy, ok, is true... BUT not always what was said by the swiss will be done by the government. in the last years i wrote twice to the bundesrat just because of this. in which country could gabriel go? in which country you never had problems of the right of humans beeing? HE IS A TRAVELER, not a politician! i am sure, that he has his own opinion, like you all and myself as well. this is a traveller blog, not a politic one. i hope, that we all can make the difference. peace and love to all of you from a really old women. for you gabriel, thanks, stay safe further on and ❤.
Thank you
for reading
my comments. 🤗
It is sore armenians mostly who write this stuff
@@jj-gz9xdracist accusation isn’t doing things better. Not only Armenians who knows about the autocratic dictator…
Swiss that women only got the vote in 1971, and wasn't till the 90s when all canton gave the vote to women. I can't remember any boycotting
Wellcome to Baku and you will be shocked. We have very hospitable people and it is very safe, even at night you can walk around the city without any worries. Older people are treated with special respect
You made it to yet another country! I was in Azerbaijan for only 4 days in 2019 and visited only the area around Baku, but thats a very big "only", around Baku there is the mud volcanos, the Gobustan ancient settlement, the burning mountain and the fire temple (Atesgah). Some fun facts about Azerbaijan, despite the majority being formally Muslim, it is a huge friend of Israel and probably one of the most irreligious countries in the world outside of Europe, and the currency the Azerbaijani manat is fixed to the US dollar with a fixed value that pretty much doesn't change, and the majority of ethnic Azerbaijanis does not live in the Republic of Azerbaijan, but in neighbouring Iran. Looking forward to more videos from this amazing country!
So what's next? You could for example go on from there over to Kazakhstan and Mongolia, neither of them too far away. There should be ferries from Baku to Aktau, Kazakhstan but I heard the constantly changing timetables are notoriously hard to find, maybe a flight is easier.
What a pity about the card, I hate when ATM's only dispense high value bills.
Good info and tips, I'll try to check out some of those places. Flight booked out of here next week to central Asia.
@@GabrielTravelerVideos All of these places are very near Baku, you could rent a car and see them all in the same day! The burning mountain and the mud volcanos are like completely out of this world places, an absolute must see!
@@GabrielTravelerVideos , for this week, have you heard of third largest city in Azerbaijan, named Ganja? :D It seems interesting through pictures, I must say. :)
@@GabrielTravelerVideos bro you could sell back that buss card at metro stations and get money back )
and it is Turkic people's country
There are so many young people you can find online who can help you to avoid any misunderstood and inform you during your journey for free. Hope you enjoyed, we are glad to see you here
Oh my gosh Gabriel, I stayed at exactly the same hotel! I immediately recognised the interior of the room - I stayed in a different room but the wallpaper and the furniture gave it away :) I'll never forget the large Azerbaijan and Turkish flags just above the staircase in the reception area. During the day, I recommend walking along the promenade where you will have an amazing view of some of the buildings. Nizami Street is always a winner too. May I also recommend the Museum of Miniature Books which showcases the smallest book in the world. Enjoy filming in this country, it was one of my favourites to film for sure.
Cool, sounds good. 👍
Hello, I am from Azerbaijan. I hope you had a good time while you were here. Here is some information for others who want to visit Baku. If you are visiting for one week, a maximum of 10 manats is enough for a Baku card. It's unfortunate that you spent 100 manats on it. Also, regarding taxi at 11:09 second, they are likely overcharging; it should only cost around 5 manats to go there. I apologize for this as an Azerbaijani, try to use Bolt or Uber. For other tourists, please consider these things and ask regular people outside instead of taxi drivers. They will surely help you.
5den 10 manata nece ucurddular qiymeti😂
@@nargizgasanova6222 yolumun üstündür deyə hər səhər oradan gedirəm və həmişə turistlər pəncərədən çox maraqla baxır. Belə "scam" etməkləri turistləri çox pisdir.
Listen to their converstaion ,it is night and there is traffic in the way to the hotel so it costs 10 manats
@@nargizgasanova6222vallah onu özümüzkilere de edirler. şəxsən neçə dəfə mənə də yüksək qiymət deyiblər mən imtina etmişəm, sadece turistdi deye ona çox da baha gəlməyib.
@@Elgun-jh7hkyazigi otele geder aparmadi
Just a small suggestion from a fellow traveler. Try to always do a bit of research on how to get from an airport to a city center before you arrive. Also, check if you can use Uber or Bolt if you are around Europe and Eurasia. That would let you avoid confusion with cab drivers especially where English is poorly understood.
Not only Baku,but also other regions are also awesome.Please,visit other regions of Azerbaijan.We are always glad to see guests in our Country❤❤
Azerbaijan is so beautiful!
With his cat,s eye night vision can even spot ruins in the dark.😻 . That restaurant was so pleasant amazing dish, so different. Looking forward to more.😊❤
Baku means windy in local dialect from turkic language family. I spent half a year in Baku in air defence school when I was a conscript for the Soviet Army.
Pishi in English means write the address of hotel in English. Russian is still an international language in the former Soviet republics.
Interesting, thanks for the info. So I'm in the windy city, better get used to it then.
russian is not an international language for Azerbaijan and it can't be
@@YeahMan8niyə öz şovinistliyini soxursan bura
It's not turkic origin. It's derived from persian- "Bad kube" which means "the city of the winds"
@@vitalitihomirov5781 I feel myself neither turkic nor persian, I'm just from Azerbaijan, I love my country because I born here. I have no religion as well I don't believe man made things,
That's the most beautiful baggage reclaim I ever saw in my life!
Congratulations Gabriel! For anyone wanting a cheap travel ticket to Baku from Europe, try Budapest - Baku (around 30-40€ one way) 🎉
Great tip I only know one person who has been and said it was great 👍
Yea very good tip cheers. Is that with Wizz Air by any chance I know u can go 2 some fascinating countries but u have to change in Europe if travelling from UK
@@SpursBen7 it is wizz air looked last night as travelling from UK myself
@@SpursBen7 yes, that’s with WizzAir, hence the price
Wow that restaurant is amazing and the food looks delicious
What a wonderful evening to be had. Enjoy and thanks for your work. Cheers.
That “weird looking building” is historical The Maiden Tower
Wow! Baku I’m so jealous. Definitely on my bucket list. I’m looking forward to this one. Thanks, Gabe.
Cool, enjoy. 👍
You should not go to a country that has Just sent 100 000 armenian refugees away. Very disapointed , Gab!!!!
@@30jkb what about 500.000 ethnic Azerbaijanis than been displaced from those lands by Armenian occupant terrorists in 1992? Unlike Azerbaijan, they didn’t offer them stay, they didn’t provide them with medicare and the other supplies. They displaced Azerbaijanis by killing them, torturing them, raping them, robbing them. Feel the difference. Azerbaijan established justice! It’s a victory if the good over the evil. Long live Azerbaijan!
@@30jkbby your stupid logic, we shouldn’t visit any country, especially the UK or the USA that invaded and killed millions. I’m not even talking about ex-nazi Germany 😃 Get a life, man.
@@30jkb nobody sent them, they chose to leave because they wanted to keep the spoils of the ethnic cleansing they had conducted against azerbaijanis. they didn't hide they were not going to live together with them. too bad but it's their choice.
I am pleasantly surprised and pleased that Azerbaijan is your next country … Travel vlogs are my passion on UA-cam mostly all I watch and recently started to watch Davud Akanzada who’s from there and it was great to see a man from Pakistan there because most Indian people have never heard of it from his vids anyway
Great video Gabe! Great to see you exploring new and interesting places. Safe travels!
Hey bro, I am following you more than one year and it was nice to see your video in my country in Baku.
Thank you for visiting my country. I hope you had a good time there, and you'll had memories
This looks like a really interesting country….looking forward to see what comes up!
Cool surprise destination, l'm looking forward to you revealing all over the coming days.
Welcome to our country ❤
You must have seen a lot of those cool taxi's in London? They are the electric version of the London Black Cab, but in a different colour! It is surprising to see so many there, they are not cheap at around £56000 new😲 maybe electricity prices there are cheap?
Enjoy Baku and Azerbaijan, Gabriel! I had the privilege to visit this beautiful part of the world earlier this year as well. Safe travels!
Yeah, Azerbaijan! Saving to watch later 👍🏻
If I know earlier, I would give you complementary city tour. Welcome to Baku ❤
2:53 "outside" got me 😭😭😭
Welcome to our country, please enjoy
If you have your next trip to Azerbaijan, I would advise you to find someone on the Internet who will welcome you and help you get around the city. It will be easier and more interesting for you. Because most people do not know English well.
Exactly what i was thinking about.
That was a Great "Shaka"
You threw in the Elevator. Pinky spread wide, stoked...! Cheers, Gabe.
Welcome Sir🎉
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I live in Azerbaijan and l can say that this country is very beautiful.
The taxi driver told you in russian to write „Central Hotel Baku“ down on that App.
I don't know why he didn't show the address
2:51 An excellent question and an excellent answer. 🙂
😂😂😂😂😂
The food really cheap and looks delicious
For anyone's information before commenting and scaremongering about safety in "the region", Azerbaijan is NOT in the Middle East but in the Caucasus region between West Asia and Eastern Europe in the former Soviet Union, the cold weather mentioned should be a hint. The Caucasus and the Middle East are 2 entirely different regions, both with their own pretty serious problems but unrelated. Baku is a perfectly safe city for the record, the kind of city where you can walk around safely at night.
As for countries that are too dangerous for travel as in a major risk of not returning home alive, there are only about 20 of them (out of some odd 200 countries) in the world, max. That's about it, really. Just stop scaremongering.
And of course, you did not mention a single word about the horrific crimes against humanity committed by dictator Aliyev on ethnic Armenians of Artsakh.
Just don't criticize the dictator regime, you be ok. No freedom of press and no free speech 😢
@@yon4209 what are you talking about? the horrific crimes were committed by armenians against Azerbaijanis, including Khojaly genocide. and the deliberate night-time bombings of civilians in Ganja and Barda. Aliyev did everything right, he liberated Azerbaijan's lands and did it in the most possibly humane way - armenians should be thankful they were not repaid in the same currency
@@yon4209 armenians, occupied the internationally recognized border of Azerbaijan, for 30 years,backed by Russia. Now the occupation is over and justice has been served.
@@yon4209если бы это было правдой хоть на один цент, то эту новость вы бы крутили по всем каналам мира.
Вы родились во лжи и вам это нравится.....
Looks like a very beautiful city
Love the food and beautiful accordion music ❤
Totally in awe 😯
Nice people there 😁
Welcome to Azerbaijan ❤
Hi Gabriel, Interesting choice of traveling to Azerbaijan I realize it's a new country you're traveling to of course many unfamiliar places to see and experience for yourself and your viewers looking forward to seeing the city. It's going to be interesting to see your take as you go into the city. I wonder if you have some locations that you intend to see as soon as you can. Anything that other viewers have mentioned to take in and enjoy you do have some money on a metro card to travel around the city's transit system there must be some locations to see while visiting the main city of Baku.
Welcome🤗
Azerbaijani language is a Turkic language, a family of languages where the Turkish language belongs. In Turkish olive is Zeytin.
Very exotic, very cool!
To travel on the metro or buses, you need to buy a card. You can buy a card for 3 trips or a permanent one. In addition, you need to put a certain amount of money on it, considering that one trip around the city costs 0,5 AZN. Keep in mind that money from the card is not returned, but the card itself can be returned when leaving Baku.
Looks like you're going to visit multiple museums like National Carpet Museum to make use of that baku Card. a trip to Shaki city in the cards?
According to the guy on the bus it only works for the metro and buses. But worth asking if I go to a museum.
And from what I can see train fares are 0.30. Can't see you making 300 trips in a few days.
Maybe see if you can get a refund, or transfer credit to someone else for cash.
Good night Gabe anticipating to your next video about Baku...✌😴
Great choice! I've always wanted to go there.
As a half Bulgarian, I was surprised that I could understand the taxi driver telling you to write on the phone. He was saying "pishi" which is the same in Bulgarian. I guess it might be because of the presence of some Turkish words in Bulgarian and probably in Azerbaijani too, but who knows
Haha !
Azerbaijan was a Soviet republic. Many people speak Russian.
@@RovexHD All right, mistery solved. I was considering as an option that the taxi driver was trying to talk in Russian with Gabriel but scrapped it at the end as less likely. Indeed in Georgia, I used my Bulgarian understanding and the few Russian words I know to get around...
Actually he was trying to say it in Russian.
So the lady on the information desk did a great job “outside” cost you $60 🤦🏼♀️
Probably she was on her period, I guess :)
I believe you could get refund for that. You just have to approach help desks at one of the metro stations (there is one at 28 May station). You can return the card and its balance should be refundable. As for the ride from the airport to the city center, you can take uber or bolt. Both are quite affordable. Should range between 10-20manats. Be careful however, some taxi drivers can try to charge you more with some excuses. If you use bus or metro, only add 10 manats or so to your card balance. You can use the same card for more than one person.
The OG travel vloger still killing it !!!!❤
Nice to see your new country and new former USSR. It is also interesting that the third largest city in this country is named Ganja and it seems like super amazing through pictures. :)
You are welcome
One of our favs
Hello Mr. Gabriel. I am so happy when I saw your video. Thanks for video! By the way I from Azerbaijan 😅
Welcome to our country Sir
I am not a traveler. But I will research the country I will visit beforehand. I learn how the metro bus works. I will go and see where the hotel is. I'm interested in the money of the country I'm going to. After that, I'll check taxi prices. I research what taxi programs there are. I mean, it surprised even me that someone who had traveled to so many countries was so ignorant.
Doing all that research online in advance will take a lot longer than just figuring it out when you get there. Since I travel constantly I don't usually have a lot of down time somewhere to spend hours trying to figure out bus schedules and metro stations and taxi prices in foreign countries. And I already spend hours every day online and on my computer editing videos and managing my channel. So I have no interest in spending more time trying to figure out all this stuff online, when I know based on years of experience doing this that I'll figure it out on the ground when I get there. I made a video talking about this: ua-cam.com/video/qrqBkKFkQLw/v-deo.html
Thanksss❤
20:44 you should've bought some juice or something on the airport to get change and use it on the bus, but you know flying around from country to country can be stressful
I missed Azerbaijan 🇦🇿 missed the food and our beautiful music 🎵
ANOTHER LOVELY VIDEO :)
Gabriel, you are traveling machine! 🦾✈️🌏
as a azerbaijani i can say i love my motherland this country is very good
Welcome to Baku
Just amazes me your in Azerbaijan now,could be an interesting
2:52 ''OUTSIDE!'' The buses are outside? No sh!t Sherlock!!! And there was me thinking you could flag one down inside the mens toilet! I can't believe she works on the Tourist Information desk. She's about as helpful as a dissolving Durex!
🤣🤣🤣No shit she aas a great help. Who is the fool that puts such ignorant piece of furniture behind the information desk.
I’m from Azerbaijan. As an Azerbaijani, I can say that this behavior was not pleasant at all. We are hospitable and helpful people. This behavior did not suit us
Welcome to Azerbaijan, I hope to you have a good time in our country
When I saw Gabe is now in Azerbaijan, this line from the LOTR movie popped into my head, when Pippin says: The closer we are to danger, the farther we are from harm.
I'm a big LOTR fan but that one doesn't really make sense. 😛 Although in their case it probably did somehow.
Nice bro. Waiting eagerly for the next upload. Please take care and travel safe inside Azerbaijan.
Man, i'm so sorry that you've had those problems. Can't believe the half of the video was just for reaching your hotel😅. It's always good to have someone as a guide to help you when u go to explore a new country. As a matter of fact, to any country right now, coz wherever u travel in these days, they just wanna take all your money😅.
They use the new London taxis, didn’t expect that.
Why not😅
Welcome to Baku .... "Outside!"
What you were expected does every visitors should have been.invited to our homes? Do you invite me at your home If I come to your country
Gabriel should have a playlist on his UA-cam channel of his favourite songs 🎶
I do actually, and (very cringey) music videos to go along with them: ua-cam.com/video/NFZ9FJuufZk/v-deo.html
Including the theme song we hear in each video !
Gabriel Traveler Classics
on 8-track & vinyl
by K-Tel Records.
Has some pretty good hits.
😎👍
Welcome to Baku!
Super surprising experience. From my armchair. Your work is fun and awesome to watch.
Thanks for sharing. The late-night musician seemed to play kind of a sad song or it was just traditional music.
I so want to go there so glad you're there, eager to hear the police in Kuwait back story
25:27 Another fun fact: The Azerbaijan word "zeytun" (olive) is related to the Spanish word for olive, "aceituna". These languages (among many others) borrowed it from the Arabic "(az-)zaytūn". Thanks for the video.
Interesting. 🤔
@@GabrielTravelerVideosEven in India we call it Zaitun, must have been borrowed from Arabic as it does not grow here.
Armenians also did the same, we also have that word representing olive: “zeytoun”
Thanks!
Thanks, appreciate it. ✌️
sir, you have paid a lot to taxi driver, if you used a bolt aplication, it would be just 4 or 5 manat.
Its a windy chilly night on Baku
Baku actually means "windy city".