Azerbaijan travel health
Required is not recommended: the first is what the border asks about, the second is what a clinic would suggest. Both, for Azerbaijan, then the number to dial and what care costs a visitor. Applies to every guide in Azerbaijan: Baku, Sheki, Gabala, Lahij, Quba.
Required to enter
Nothing. No vaccination certificate is asked for at the border.
Recommended
- Hepatitis A
- Tetanus up to date
- Rabies for the mountain villages
Emergency number
112 from any phone; 103 for an ambulance, 102 for police
Care for visitors
Good but costly
Good private clinics in Baku used to foreigners and paid in cash or by insurance; adequate in the regional towns; the mountain villages rely on a drive back. Insurance for the repatriation.
Tap water is not drunk in Baku; bottled is everywhere. The summer humidity off the Caspian is the thing that lays visitors low. Khinalug is at 2,300 m and the nights are cold in any month.
The general rules — clinic timing, water, mosquitoes, insurance — are in travel health tips.
The guides in Azerbaijan
BakuAzerbaijanA walled medieval city inside an oil-boom city on the Caspian: Flame Towers over a Zoroastrian tower, a boulevard along the sea, and mud volcanoes and fire temples an hour out
ShekiAzerbaijanA Silk Road town in the Caucasus foothills with a khan’s palace of stained glass and no nails, a caravanserai to sleep in, and a sweet the town is named for
GabalaAzerbaijanThe country’s mountain resort: a cable car up the Caucasus, ski runs in winter, a lake and waterfalls in summer, and the ruins of the ancient capital beside it
LahijAzerbaijanA coppersmiths’ village up a gorge, cobbled by hand a thousand years ago, with a sewer system older than most capitals and the hammers still going
QubaAzerbaijanApple orchards under the Caucasus, a Jewish town across the river that has been there for centuries, and Khinalug, a village at 2,300 m that speaks its own language