Baku - Oilfields and military cemetry

As I am a post-graduate student of political science, focusing on oil and gas policies, I could not help but go to Baku for research. The most impressive spots in this emerging city are for me the oilfields in the outskirts (including the environmental catastrophe) and the never ending military cemetery where the countless fallen soldiers of the Nagorno Karabakh wars are buried.

fish in the Caspian Sea

oil floating on the Caspian Sea



Looking into the faces of the countless fallen soldiers of the Nagorno Karabakh wars. Many of them were in their early twenties - today their graves are fondly decorated with flowers.

Gambia

harbor and fish market

sheep and goat market

our driver Mohammed with the cutest goat in the world

me with the cutest goat in the world

in the mangroves

monkey in the Bijilo Forest Park

 

Mali - Bamako, Djenne, Mopti, Pays Dogon

Bamako - evening on the Niger banks

somewhere between Ficko and Bla (I am not kidding!)

in the evening waiting for the ferry to cross the Niger

perfect camouflage - do you find the insect?

me, caught by thorns

love the traffic in Africa!

here too, 50 cent?

in Djenne

hey, look at me, look at me!

thank you!

gas station in Mopti

Bani meets Niger in Mopti

Songo - the most peaceful village

our driver - the BEAR - on the right