19th Annual Smithsonian Magazine Photo Contest Travel
Yalli

This shot I captured in Gobustane rock art cultural landscape, what is located in a distance of 40 miles from Baku. Gobustane, where an astonishing collection of over 6.000 ancient petroglyphs chart ways of life dating back as far as 40.000 years, included to UNESCO world cultural heritage list. In this part of rock was described oldest danse of humanity, what called as yalli in azeri language.

Photo Detail
Date Taken: 09.2021
Date Uploaded: 09.2021
Photo Location: Azerbaijan
Camera: Canon EOS 250D
Copyright: © Ruslan Hajizada