![Şeki](https://www.riannek.de/wp-content/uploads/2008/07/102_7029.jpg)
Heading west, we turn off to the mountain village of Lahiç, known for its coppersmiths. As in ancient times, copper vessels of all kinds are made and decorated here.
![Lahiç](https://www.riannek.de/wp-content/uploads/2008/07/102_6855.jpg)
![Lahiç](https://www.riannek.de/wp-content/uploads/2008/07/102_6845.jpg)
Near Qabala, Micha shows us where and how wells are drilled here, which will one day ensure Baku‘s water supply. All over the country there are plastic pipes with a diameter of 2 m, which will one day be buried under the ground and serve as a pipeline. We are told about the difficulties one has to face in such a project.
![Şeki](https://www.riannek.de/wp-content/uploads/2008/07/102_7068.jpg)
Şeki is a pretty town that must have become rich in the 19th century through silk spinning. Apart from the old factory buildings, it is very village-like and not much seems to have happened in the last 100 years. For a time, this was the capital of a tiny khanate, so there is still a small palace to see. We spend the night in style in a former caravanserai.
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Backpacking trip Middle East and Caucasus 2008
Trek from Xinaliq to Lasa
Baku
Mud volcanoes in Azerbaijan
Tbilisi and around