We did the bus tour!

Anyone who knows me, knows how much I enjoy a good hop on, hop off bus tour. To me, they are the BEST. THING. EVER.

{I've even planned on starting my own hop on hop off tour with my mum. I won't disclose the location here. But trust me, it'll be an amazing tour}

Wherever I go in the world, the first thing I do is google if they have a tour bus and plan my route and stops. Some people just wing it. Not me though, there's a technique to doing a hop on, hop off tour right to squeeze every last moment out of your 24 hour ticket!

And Baku was no different. The bus only started running a couple of months ago here, so it's still very new and testing the waters, but I think with a few small tweaks it could be up there with the best. Well Dan and I 'hopped on' a couple of weekends ago we took in all the major sights. From the Cultural Centre to the Flame Towers we saw it all.

My favourite part of the whole weekend was when we stopped at the Boulevard and jumped on the funicular that took us up the mountain side to the Flame Towers, Martyrs' Lane and the Eternal Flame. The view alone was impressive, but all of it together made for such a fun afternoon.

We briefly stepped into the Flame Towers {home to the most expensive hotel in the country} and walked along Martyrs' Lane {bet you've never been to a cemetery with an escalator!} and then spent ages just staring out at the port.

Our ticket lasted until lunchtime the next day, so we took advantage and headed up to the Heydar Aliyev Cultural Centre in the morning. The building is very impressive, even if the exhibition inside didn't blow us away. But they do have an incredible art installation at the moment, with around 100 giant glass sweets decorated in flags from around the world. It was pretty cool.

I think we've done most of our city sightseeing now {just a few museums to hit, but we're saving those for the winter months}, so this coming weekend we're going on a road trip to the mud volcanoes, petroglyphs and fire mountain, which I've been planning with a local tour guide. There's a whole mini bus relying on me, so it better be good!