Umurwa mukuru mwiza wa Azaribayijan - Baku yahemuye ageze ahabwa. Kandi sintekereza, nkundana nuyu mujyi.
Mbere ya byose, nashakaga gutembera kumwanya wamamare wa primorsky boulevard, yiruka kuri kilometero ku nyanja. Boulevard ishushanya igituba, ibiti by'imikindo, amafaranga y'indege hagati y'isoko yatakaye. Amaso ahunga ibya cafe, resitora na sinema. Kandi urwenya rushyikirizwa parike ya Nagorno, aho ushobora kwishimira panorama nziza yumujyi.
Kuva mu gihuru cyagiye gutwara ubwato ku kigobe cya Baku. Muri iki rugendo rwa mbere, umuyobozi yabwiye imigani ishimishije nibintu bivuye mu mateka yinyanja ya Caspiya.
Hano muri Baku no mu mateka, iherereye ku rundi ruhande rw'umujyi, yitwa Baku Acrolis cyangwa Iheri Sheheri, bisobanura umujyi w'imbere. Iki kigega cyamateka kandi cyubatswe gitandukanijwe nurukuta rukomeye rwisi, kubwibyo yitwa igihome. Hano hazashimishwa cyane kubungane bwamateka ya kera. Mu mujyi wa kera, inyubako nyinshi zikungahaye zarimbishijwe uburyo budasanzwe n'imitako idasanzwe.
Ku butaka bw'umujyi wa kera, twasuye ibwami ingoma ya Shirvanshakh, ikubiyemo ibwami, aho iteraniro ry'abambasaderi b'abanyamahanga - Disyani, Mausanhansshah Yahya Bakuvi, Shiswenshanshah UPM, Portal y'Uburasirazuba na Hamam - kwiyuhagira. Kugenda kuri iyi "Umukobwa wa Maiden" - Imbaraga, nimwe mu nsengero nini zo ku isi. Birashobora kugira abantu barenga 200. Abahanga ntibashobora kumenya imyaka nyayo yiyi miterere myiza, ariko bavuga ko umaze mu kinyejana cya 13, niwo musangambe nyamukuru wumujyi. Kuki "Umukobwa"? Kuko kutagereranywa, bidashoboka. Abenegihugu bavuze ko nk'uko umugani, Shah yakundanye n'umukobwa we ashaka kumurongora. Umukobwa yagerageje kumwamburwa, asaba kubaka umunara, mu byiringiro se, mu byubatsi. Ariko ibyo ntibyabaye, kandi umukobwa yurira hejuru y'Umunara, yihutira kujya mu nyanja.
Muri IRishecher, urashobora kugura indabyimba hamwe namatapi yintoki - Hano hari amaduka menshi atandukanye. Kandi muri cafe ihumure bakorera ikawa nshya nziza.
Twasuye kandi MINARET k'umuhungu, mu nzu ya Baku khan no mu musigiti Muhamadi bin Abu-Bakra. Twarebye ubwogero bwikinyejana 15-19 hamwe nibinyejana 25-18 guhaha. Kubwamahirwe, ntabwo yari afite umwanya wo kureba Caravanserag wa Multani, Bukhara, Mollahana. Ariko neza, tuzasubira aha hantu heza.