Karbalai Hamid Abdulla bath

Insider tip — Lankaran on Azerbaijan's Caspian coast at the Iranian border is the country's subtropical riviera — a warm, humid city known for tea cultivation, pomegranates, and the Hirkan National Park of ancient temperate rainforest that survived the Ice Age intact. This historic bath serves a city where Azerbaijani Shia Islamic culture and Persian cultural influence intersect most strongly — a border landscape where the Caspian coast, the Talysh mountains, and the historic trade routes between Azerbaijan and Persia have converged for millennia.