The Jerusalem Post Podcast - Travel Edition, Episode 84

Located on the Caspian Sea, the world's largest lake, Baku has everything you could ask for in a city vacation and that includes great kosher food and daily synagogue prayers - right in the heart of a secular Muslim state. The capital of Azerbaijan is a mix of East and West, Asia and Europe, historic and modern.  Just three hours from Tel Aviv with up to a dozen weekly flights, what more could you ask for? Mark and David report from Baku and dish up the highlights in their latest podcast. This time:

• At 30,000 feet with Azerbaijan Airlines
• Baku, its food and fountains by night
• Suleyman the guide speaks magnificent Hebrew!
• It's got to be Chabad - meet Chief Rabbi Shneor Segal
• Take off my shoes when I go into shul?
• Who are the Mountain Jews?
• A kosher restaurant in the heart of the city
• The lowdown on how to get here, where to stay and what to eat
• Azerbaijan, the big picture
• Baku is very walkable
• The incredible Heydar Aliyev Center
• Is that an Israeli flag?
• Flames, Highland Park and what a view (yes, we know this is audio)