A trip to Azerbaijan's Karabakh and East Zangazur has begun for an international group of travelers representing 12 countries, formed in the UK, Report informs.
The travelers are in the Azikh cave in the Khojavand district of Azerbaijan.
The group is accompanied by well-known Azerbaijani traveler Mehraj Mahmudov.
The 30-member group includes representatives from the US, the UK, Ireland, Belgium, Germany, France, Denmark, the Netherlands, Italy, Spain, Brazil and Russia.
Travelers will visit the liberated Azerbaijani territories on February 4-6 along the route Fuzuli-Khojavand-Shusha-Kalbajar-Lachin-Zangilan-Jabrayil-Agdam. This trip once again demonstrates a significant increase in the interest of international travelers in construction and restoration work in the liberated territories of the country, completely destroyed during the years of almost 30 years of occupation.
They will also be briefed on the progress of demining work. Over the past two years, representatives of the main international travel clubs - Etic, MTP, TCC, NomadMania and the Turkish Travel Club have visited Karabakh and East Zangazur. Such visits were implemented once in 2021, and four times last year. The current trip is the sixth in a row. The group includes travelers interested in military history, including authors of famous travel books.
Such visits are aimed at promoting such an extreme type of tourism as Dark Tourism. International travelers visit the liberated territories that Armenia has plundered for almost 30 years and places where heavy fighting took place in 2020. They have the opportunity to get acquainted with the realities on the ground, including with the work on construction and rehabilitation, with the work on the creation of the Zangazur Corridor.