But drive a few hours north, and the urban energy fades, giving way to vast, snow-covered mountains -an unexpected winter ...

Travel writer Mark Elliot is said to be the first to nickname this area, the Candy Cane Mountains his 1999 book Azerbaijan: With Excursions to Georgia, and the name has stuck. While these candy ...

The settlement of Khinalug which was declared a national historical-architectural and ethnographic preserve in 2007 is in north ... Azerbaijan near the border with Russia. Surrounded by mountains ...