Saturday, January 08, 2011

Travelling to Khinalig...

Did it ever happen to you that you keep thinking about travelling somewhere and it just doesn't happen? It seems to you that you hear all the time about more people visiting the place but you don't go beyond planning...between my wanting to go to Khinalig and actual impromptu trip I graduated, got married and actually took with me there my almost five year son! Anyway enough about me...

Very first post on this blog talked about the road to Sheki...now road to Khinalig...

More than just pretty nature escorts you all the way...at some places it also boasts how grand and almighty it is...then when you think that you are almost there you find yourself in lowland but lowland on the mountains and you feel like there can't be a further place where people live as there are no villages on your way only nature very high up...then you pass a village and in astonishment you realize that its still not Khinalig you go further and here...I won't be exaggerating if I said that somewhere among the clouds you find village you have been trying to reach...Khinalig (2350 meter high from sea level)...I still haven't educated myself enough....as on how did these people that do not speak Azeri but language of their own (and not any language of ethnic minority but their own language) ended up so far from everyone else just on their own and so high up!!! With no proper road up until couple of years ago...and that's one of the first places to welcome snow...amazing...Road to Khinalig is very picturesque thus devoting this post exclusively to it...

No matter how many pictures I took it seemed to me that beauty still won't be conveyed...even though colours were the ones of winter...autumns and springs must be amazing...yes, must see...











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