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Azerbaijan.
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Baku
Eat qutab off the saj
Paper-thin dough is folded over greens, pumpkin or minced meat and cooked in seconds on a domed iron plate, then brushed with butter and eaten folded, with sumac. Photograph it coming off the saj.
See the hillside that has burned for centuries
Natural gas seeps out of the rock here and has been alight continuously for as long as anyone has recorded it — this is why the country's name means land of fire. It burns hardest after dark. Photograph the flames at night.
Walk the walled İçərişəhər
The walled old town sits inside a city of glass towers, and nobody agrees what the Maiden Tower inside it was for — temple, observatory or fortress. The stone stairs are worn into curves. Photograph the tower against the towers.