Three Ancient Lands: Azerbaijan, Georgia and Armenia

Departing 16-Apr-2010 to 05-May-2010

The Caucasus has always been one of the world's most complex regions. For millennia it has been a home to mountain clans and ancient peoples and a belt where empires and nomads clashed. Its historical role was determined by its geographical location - the bridge between Asia and Europe.

The region of the Caucasus seems to have too much history for its modest territories which have now splintered into three countries and several breakaway states. A number of contemporary political concepts consider the region to be a unique melting pot of Eastern Orthodox Christianity and Islam.

The local economies are still recovering from the blow dealt by the death of the Soviet empire. Besides oil from Azerbaijan, cognac from Armenia and wine from Georgia, not many exports flow out of the region. After seventy years of Sovietisation the people are recovering their old traditions and arts.

The Caucasus region is emerging as a destination waiting to be discovered by the discerning modern traveller who has a spirit of adventure and a thirst for discovery. This is an extraordinary ride out from mass tourism into a Eurasian mosaic of cultures and exceptional hospitality.

The shores of Lake Sevan, the oil boomtown of Baku, the lush church-studded hills of Georgia, knots of guarded mountain valleys: the Caucasus is its own world.

 

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