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While I’ve seen some marshrutkas Telavi (Georgia) – Qax (Azerbaijan) on the road, I took a morning marshrutka (11,15) from Sheki to Balakan (1 manat, 2 hours), and a taxi from Balakan to the Georgian border (3 manat). Luckily, other taxis were waiting on the Georgian side (10 lari to nearest village, 30 lari for Sighnaghi after bargain).
Marshrutka/bus timetable is printed at the ticket office in the bus station, but only for routes within Azerbaijan. Leave a Comment Theme: Bus
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Baku underground is a good way to go around the city, especially if you don't stay in the centre or if you need to get to marshrutkas or bus stations to get in/out Baku.
A problem is the lack of metro maps, while i found it hard to figure out myself which line the train was going. Plasmas are used for cartoons and advertisements, not for information, but you can always find help asking around.
Railways station - 28 May and Cafar, depending on destination, 28 May for the centre.
centre & the old town - between Sahil and Baki Sovieti metro stations
marshrutkas for Sumqayit and buses for Saki - 20 Januar metro
marshrutkas for Suraxani & Fire Temple - Nariman Narimanov metro Leave a Comment Theme: Subway/Metro
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 by josephescu
For Sumqayit, buses and marshrutkas leave every 10-20 minutes from a place next to the 20 Januar metro station, 100m down the road.
For Suraxani, marshrutkas leave from Nariman Narimanov metro station. There're also trains to Suraxani, but they take longer and are fewer than marshrutkas.
For Seki, there are air con buses all day and night almost every hour, 6-7 hours ride, 4 new manats, from 20 Januar bus station near the metro one. Leave a Comment Theme: Bus
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 View from Maiden's Tower, Baku by MalenaN
I went to a travel agent in Nejatollahi Street where I bought a ticket with Iran Air for IR 1390000 (about 150 dollars).
The plane left from the new Imam Khomeini Airport at 13.45. I think it took about 1,5 hours to fly to Baku (or less). Not until I went off the plane in Baku did I take off the scarf, as only one woman had done so in the plane.
Getting the visa and going through the passport control was easy. I had already filled in two application forms, which I had downloaded from Internet and I also had two passport photos with me.
To Imam Khomeini Airport in Tehran I took a taxi from Qazvin for IR 150 000. Arriving in Baku I shared taxi with two other people and paid 8 Manat to my hotel. Otherwise the fixed price from the airport was 20 Manat (July 2006). Leave a Comment Theme: Airplane
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 by josephescu
The journey includes:
- 2-3 hours stay at the border
- no smoking on the corridor
- receiving food and drinks from friendly local travellers
- passing through Mad Max type scenery in the afternoon
- filling in applications in Georgian letters Leave a Comment Theme: Train
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Train is cheap, comfortable and painfully slow. The 620 km journey from Baku to Tbilisi took 16,5 hours. Leave a Comment Theme: Train
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In Baku my hotel and indeed the Lonely Planet tried to sell me the idea of a car from Baku to Gobustan and back, for a small fortune. Don't worry - the Marshrutkas as described in the Lonely Planet are pretty frequent and are an easy way there. From there any taxi driver will take you round the petroglyphs and to the mud volcanoes for a reasonable figure, way cheaper than taking a car all the way from Baku. Theme: Bus
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If you ask at the (wonderful) Caravanserai Hotel, they'll show you the timetable of marshrutkas going from Sheki to Qax, from where a direct bus goes to Tbilisi, I think twice a day, at 1030 and then after lunch sometime.
However, I chose to go in shorter steps, and found it easy, and quicker. At 9.00 a marshrutka left Sheki for Zataquala; from there to Balakan; and from there a taxi to the border. Easy crossing, polite guards, then a taxi from the Georgian side of the border to Lagodeki (4 Lari). I changed some money at the border but got a poor rate. At Lagodeki I had a short wait before a marshrutka left as scheduled at 1pm, arriving mid/late afternoon in Tbilisi - think that was 8 Lari.
Also, you could take a taxi to the border from Balakan - it's not that far, 12 manat or so. Theme: Bus
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 The bus station in Qax by MalenaN
Marshrutkas to Qax is not leaving from the bus station by the market in Seki, but from another place. A taxi to the marshrutka from the hotel was 1 Manat (1 dollar was 0,87 Manat). I took the 10.30 marshrutka to Qax. It was 1 Manat and took 1 hour and 15 minutes.
In Qax they told me to buy the ticket for Tbilisi on the marshrutka, but they called to reserve a seat for me. The marshrutka for Tbilisi arrived at Qax just before 13.00, and only a few minutes later we left.
At the border the gates were closed and we had to wait for our turn. There was no problems for me on either side of the border and I got my stamps quickly. A woman asked me if I had to pay anything, but no. For everyone to cross the border it took one hour.
The landscape along the road to Tbilisi was very nice. In Tbilisi the marshrutka was going to Ortachala Bus Terminal, but the driver told me it was best for me to get of before, near Isani metro stop, at a place where there was a lot of exchange offices. In this way I could take the metro to Marjanishvili where I was going to stay.
The trip between Qax and Tbilisi took 5 hours and 45 minutes (including an hour at the border) and it was 5 Manat. According to the time table on the wall at the bus station in Qax (where the hours were not correct) there were four buses a day from Qax to Tbilisi. I don’t know anything about the opposite way, but it should be about the same. Leave a Comment Theme: Bus
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