One of the world’s most fascinatingly complex and rapidly emerging travel destinations — where the ancient UNESCO-listed walled city of Baku’s Icheri Sheher sits in extraordinary proximity to the futuristic flame-shaped towers of the modern city skyline, the mud volcanoes of Gobustan bubble and shift in a geological landscape of extraordinary prehistoric significance, and the Silk Road palace city of Sheki’s Khan’s Palace shimmers with extraordinary stained glass craftsmanship in the forested foothills of the Greater Caucasus mountains.