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Snapshot: Nagoro Karabakh (with video)


Snapshots
are mini town/city guides for smaller places or cities I have only experienced briefly. Here’s a little snapshot of Nagoro Karabakh (known as Artsakh locally).

What are one’s first impressions of Artsakh?

Grey area

Where the hell am I? Most of you probably haven’t heard of this little self-proclaimed republic. (It hard to be taken seriously when your flag was created in Microsoft paint). Legally still part of Azerbaijan, but de facto occupied by the Armenians after a brutal war, the status of this land is really up in the air. Having heard both sides, I still can’t make my mind up who owns it. However, having slipped my weapon of choice  sex into a Karabakh refugee of Azeri decent, I’m bias in that direction. The capital, Stepanakert, is quite boring, but there is plenty to see and do around this pretty little country.

Stephanakert

What are the women like?

Not great. The dregs of Armenia live here. There is the odd hottie, but as a whole, Artsakh women rank the lowest out of anywhere I visited in the Caucasus. Compared to the other self-proclaimed republic in the region, Abkhazia, there is no comparison.

Wedding game.

They look like their cousins in Yerevan, with their black hair and sultry features, but they’re just not as attractive—more flabby, hairy, less pretty faces. I’d put Artsakh girls are the same plain as Turkish girls. But even if you do meet a looker, the biggest problem is how conservative the people are. Artsakh has a small population that are very religious and socially conservative. Getting laid would be very hard indeed for the short term visitor. I’m sure it could be done after ALOT of time, effort, and empty promises of marriage and passports,  but frankly, the capital is so boring I wouldn’t recommend anybody stay here to find out. You’re best bet to get laid is hitting on the girls working in the restaurants.

Where should I go at night-time?

Apart from a few decent restaurants (try the Italian place), there are only one or two bars in the center. Check out blues bar. It’s actually not that bad and has a forest-like interior. Don’t expect to find anyone out mid-week though.

Any other recommendations?

View from Agdam Mosque

Get up early and hire a taxi for the day (very cheap). Check out Shushi, Agdam and all the other sites along the way. Agdam was a former Azeri city of 100,000, but is now an unpopulated city of rubble. It looks like a nuke went of there, with nature is slowly reclaiming the land. It is technically illegal to enter the city, but we chanced our arm and encountered no checkpoints. We did see some military patrols (even filmed them on the sly), but we stayed out of site, let our driver do the talking and had no problems.

Bottom Line

Very beautiful, but boring.

Here’s a shitty 50 second video I made of  some footage I shot there.

http://youtu.be/yMzfxD5QmsM

 

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14 Responses to Snapshot: Nagoro Karabakh (with video)

  1. Rick91 January 28, 2013 at 12:32 am #

    Hey nomad, i just did a rate this chick thread with some chick of a porn site and apparently i’m banned forever because it thought i was spamming. Any chance of getting that ban lifted or will i just have to get a new account?

    • Naughty Nomad January 28, 2013 at 3:28 am #

      No prob

  2. Ruxman January 28, 2013 at 1:34 am #

    You’d think if they could afford to physcially make a flag they could pay a designer to illustrate one professionally.

  3. HG January 28, 2013 at 8:55 am #

    Nice.
    So random… this is all part of the hitting-every-existing-country regimen?

    Assuming this excludes territories.

    Love the shitty video.. is that some traditional Artsakh music?

    • Naughty Nomad January 28, 2013 at 3:16 pm #

      Yep. Traditional local music.

  4. Ali S January 28, 2013 at 12:31 pm #

    Good stuff mate. I’m really waiting for the vlog – any idea when you’ll do it? and how do I access your photo album, can’t quite find it on the site :/

  5. shamrock January 29, 2013 at 8:58 am #

    nicely done checking out the area and getting a disputed flag
    but cmon on did you realy have to go after a refugee …was she a muzzy or christian?

    [Zolo: She was a wealthy refugee, and was exiled as a child. She was a atheist actually, but of Muzzy heritage.]

  6. Vorkuta January 29, 2013 at 2:16 pm #

    Nice report NN however have you not spelt the country wrong? I have always believed it to be called Nagorno-Karabakh and not ‘Ngoro’. What is the deal?

    I read a great book about the area a few years back and there is a great line about the conflict there which is ‘the origins of the conflict are shrouded in the mists of the 20th century’ i.e there was no historical resentment.

    [Zolo: I’ve seen it spelled both ways, but I just spoke with my friend and she told your one is more common. Thanks.]

  7. RichieP January 31, 2013 at 7:50 pm #

    … so now you’re banging refugee chicks? 😀

    you are the Indiana jones of pickup. North Korea man. It’s staring at you, daring you to step up 😛

  8. Andrey January 27, 2015 at 11:17 am #

    An amazing and comfortable country with very cute and lovely girls. Stepanakert is full of young Armenian military males, so the scene is too competitive. Definitely not a destination for battered dolts strayed from international sex routes

    • Andrey January 27, 2015 at 11:21 am #

      P.S.: Karabakh is in Armenia, not Azerbaijan. The map on the pic is of Soviet-era, modern map of the region looks quite differ

  9. Andrey January 27, 2015 at 11:21 am #

    P.S.: Karabakh is in Armenia, not Azerbaijan. The map on the pic is of Soviet-era, modern map of the region looks quite differ

    • bobby August 5, 2017 at 10:24 pm #

      Why would you go there man? Now you will be blacklisted as a persona non grata in Azerbaijan for entering the territory without the permission.

      And Karabakh is still in Azerbaijan, as recognised by every country in the world. Armenia itself even doesn’t recognize the independence of Karabakh. Where did you find the so called modern map? No reputable source will show it as part of Armenia.

      • Mark Zolo August 7, 2017 at 9:27 am #

        I’ve already been to Azerbaijan.

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