When is a good time to visit Azerbaijan? Anytime! Every season has its charm, so when to go depends on your travel type and what activities you are interested in.

Summer is ideal season to visit Azerbaijan, rich with delicious culinary traditions, to attend the Dolma Festival.

Dolma is a traditional meal in the Land of Fire that no Azerbaijani can imagine living without. Dolma is one of the most popular and widespread dishes of Azerbaijan. It is the number one guest of all feasts along with rich flavored Plov.

By the way, if you also want to taste Azerbaijan’s signature dish Plov, do not hesitate to take part at the annual Plov Festival.

At such festivals, the aroma of the saffron-covered rice wafts throughout the entire venue, making the visitors’ mouths water. More than 60 different kinds of plov are typically offered at the festival. This delicious dish includes cherries, pumpkin, fennel, dried fruits, and beans.

Azerbaijan is a country with rich sport traditions. Wrestling, shooting, fencing, javelin, and racing are well-known sports in the country. In the recent years the influence of Azerbaijan as a sporting country significantly increased. Every year, the country hosts major international and domestic sporting events that are all worth to see. So, search the internet not to miss one of them.

Traditional Apple Festival to be held in the marvelous northern-western region of Azerbaijan – Guba in early autumn.

Guba region may rightly be considered as a motherland of Azerbaijani apples. Smell of juicy and aromatic apple trees have spread into every stone and every house of this beautiful northern region.

In October dozens of farmers and gardeners will bring their best apples, including palmet, semerinka, fudji, gizilehmed and others to the festival and define winner in various competitions, such as the biggest apple or the most delicious apple jam.

November pleases with one of the country’s most loved festivals – the Pomegranate Festival in Goychay region. Annually attracting about 15,000 visitors, the festival gathers several varieties of pomegranates grown in different villages across Goychay as well as products made of pomegranate, showcasing them at an exhibition in the town square.

Other popular events include the “biggest pomegranate” competition, the contest for the fastest consumer of pomegranates, and another contest involving squeezing out pomegranate juice.

 

 

Source: azernews.az