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A burning hillside · best after dusk
Yanar Dag
Fire fed by the earth
Natural gas reaching the surface feeds the flames of Yanar Dag—an encounter with the landscape behind Azerbaijan’s association with fire.
A hillside that has burned for as long as anyone has recorded it, fed by natural gas seeping through the rock.
Yanar Dag is a low flame rising from a gas seep on a hillside near Baku, most visible after dusk. It is a natural phenomenon rather than a monument, and it sits close to the road north.
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