With the help of our new friends we managed to get tickets for the ferry to Turkmenbashi, Turkmenistan. This is a tricky business, and in the 4 days that we were in Baku going to the ferry port we met several others trying to get tickets either for the ferry to Turkmenistan or Kazakhstan. You see the ferry is actually only a cargo ferry and although passengers can normally get a ticket, a passenger with a vehicle is a different thing altogether! There is a lot ...

From Saki we headed to Qobustan to see the "mud volcanoes". What a strange sight! We couldn't find it from the directions in Lonely Planet (the book I am coming to least trust in the entire world) so we pulled into a police hut and asked for directions. So helpful, for just a small fee(!) one of the policemen rode with us and gave directions -to be fair we would never have found it! On the way up we did notice lots of abandoned drill sites... the water/mud is no...

After a mess around with the Azerbaijan embassy we did get our visas. We spent our last few days in and around Tbilisi with Greg and Maria looking around the markets, enjoying dinner and wine and Georgian traditional dancing and singing. We all went on a bit of a random adventure looking for a fishing spot and got caught up in a rally! That was just after Fintan had been attacked by wasps. His leg swelled up and I was a bit worried... but sitting around in the ai...