What a week! We were beginning to wonder if we’d ever get our ferry tickets to Baku, but at long last, we finally got the phone call we’d been waiting ages for. Aktau is a city in Kazakhstan that’s popular with travelers for one reason, and one reason only. The Baku-Aktau ferry ride is perhaps … Continue reading
Monthly Archives: July 2015
Flashback 3: China (Heku, Yuan Yang, Xin Jie, Duo Yi Shu)
The Caspian Sea. Sinbad the Sailor might have braved these waters many a century ago. And now it’s my turn! I sit in a cafe in Aktau, Kazakhstan, awaiting news from a ticket agency about the next ferry across the Caspian to Baku, Azerbaijan. The minutes tick by slowly in this dusty city with so … Continue reading