Eight Days in Georgia, Armenia and Azerbaijan from April 26 to May 3, 2025
I choose these three countries for my 8 day trip since they were to each other and air travel was cheap. Georgia, Azerbaijan and Armenia were all strategic because they were on the Silk Roads connecting civilizations between East and the West. It was not just trade and business (silk, tea, spices, porcelain, precious stones from the East and horses, wool, gold, silver, glass, wine from the West). The Caravan Serais also meant spread of world religions and cultures, and a flow of philosophy and science. This trip was also a deep appreciation of another world religion, Zorastrianism, across all these three countries, well before Christianity or Islam had touched them. And of the devastating effects of the Soviet annexation and repression across most of the 20th century on these three states. My first destination was Tbilisi, Georgia. I caught Air Arabia to Sharjah, and from there caught the flight to Tbilisi Tbilisi (a warm place) was full of hot springs and so the city grew...