Braking Boundaries » Azerbaijan http://www.brakingboundaries.org Cycling for Humanity - Currently cycling and camping in South Korea Sun, 25 Apr 2010 23:42:39 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 en hourly 1 The Rest of Our Photos http://www.brakingboundaries.org/the-rest-of-our-photos/2009/12/07/ http://www.brakingboundaries.org/the-rest-of-our-photos/2009/12/07/#comments Sun, 06 Dec 2009 23:33:26 +0000 Jared http://www.brakingboundaries.org/?p=1940 Over six months Tom, Katie and I took over 6500 photos. While we tried to put photos on the site as we traveled this became less frequent as we chose camping in strange places over the comforts of hostels with wifi. This left me with the mammoth task of sorting through and formatting pictures at the end of the trip.

Finally after countless hours sorting, turning and cropping I am proud to say that the best photos from all 3 cameras are now online including Tom’s photos from his solo adventure as he took the Northwestern European route while we went West.

Countries that have been added to the sites collection include Azerbaijan, Georgia, Turkey, (and the amazing Cappidocia) Albania, Croatia Switzerland and the rest of our European adventures.

There are even more albums of our latest adventures can be found in the photo album section of the Baking Boundaries website.

Enjoy,
Jared, Tom & Katie

]]> http://www.brakingboundaries.org/the-rest-of-our-photos/2009/12/07/feed/ 0 Video – The Roads of Azerbaijan http://www.brakingboundaries.org/video-%e2%80%93-the-roads-of-azerbaijan/2009/09/30/ http://www.brakingboundaries.org/video-%e2%80%93-the-roads-of-azerbaijan/2009/09/30/#comments Wed, 30 Sep 2009 11:33:21 +0000 Jared http://www.brakingboundaries.org/?p=1828 Despite a rocky/sandy start the roads of Azerbaijan soon turned into beautiful tree lined ups and downs.

Click here to view the embedded video.

Now all we need to do is avoid the traffic.

Click here to view the embedded video.

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Here is how we spent our day off.

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]]> http://www.brakingboundaries.org/video-%e2%80%93-day-off-in-lahic-azerbaijan/2009/09/29/feed/ 0 Information for Aktau, Kazakhstan http://www.brakingboundaries.org/information-for-aktau-kazakhstan/2009/08/02/ http://www.brakingboundaries.org/information-for-aktau-kazakhstan/2009/08/02/#comments Sun, 02 Aug 2009 10:18:05 +0000 Jared http://www.brakingboundaries.org/?p=1636 This post contains as much information about the visa and the ferry process as possible that I promised cyclists and backpackers who are are heading from East to West along a similar route to us.

Anna, Ruben, Leon, Peter and James. I hope your travels are going well and this information makes your stay here in Aktau a little less frustrating as you too will wait for the illusive ferry.

(if anyone has Peter’s email please send a link for this post to him)

Azerbaijan Consulate in Aktau, Kazakhstan

Aktau to Baku Ferry Ticket Information

Cheap Accommodation in Aktau

Other random Aktau notes:

There is an internet cafe on the 5th District side of the road (See the lonely planet map). It costs 350 Tenge an hour and is actually fast. They are open from 9-10pm every day. Tom found another one further from the city that is 24 hours and only costs 300 Tenge. Go all the way down the main road to the roundabout and take a right. It is located at the end of the block on the left side and is called Internet King. (11th District)

There is a decent supermarket opposite the WW11 memorial which is on the main street. It is called Ardager.

We have been unable to locate any bike shops as we are lacking in tube patches due to a spate of flat tires by all 3 of us.

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