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9 Hour Exploration Of Baku & Gobustan National Park
  • Tour Category

    Group Tour

  • Tour Types

    Nature, Archeology, History

  • Duration

    9 Hours

  • Activity Level

    Easy

  • Language

    English, Russian

Description

Explore the ancient cities of Azerbaijan, where natural wonders and ancient manmade marvels will leave you in awe. Visit Gobustan open-air museum, Bibi Heybat Mosque, Atesgah (Fire Temple of Baku), Yanar Dag flames, and other major sites of attraction.

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    • Start the tour with a visit to the mud volcanoes (if the weather is suitable for a road trip) at 09:00 am. Mud volcanoes form in places where underground gas pockets have found a weak spot in the earth from where they can force their way to the surface. Over a thousand mud volcanoes are known to exist in the world, and some 400 of those are in the coastal area of Azerbaijan.

    • Visit Gobustan open-air museum, littered with neolithic rock drawings where 6,000 inscriptions (petroglyphs) are kept. Museum of Petroglyphs is another name for Gobustan - a mountainous place in the southeast of the Major Caucasian ridge located 60 km from Baku. Ancient primitive dwellings - caves and sites - and more than 100 thousand material culture objects have been found in that place. Annually, this stone picture gallery is visited by thousands of people from all over the world.

    • Observe Roman inscription over the stone and location of the shooting of “Agent 007”.

    • Take a brief halt at Bibi Heybat Mosque, the tomb of Ukeyma Khanum (a descendant of the Prophet Muhammad) and one of the major monuments of Islamic architecture in Azerbaijan.

    • At around 2:00 pm, stop for lunch at one of the best restaurants in Baku.

    • Head to Absheron at 3:00 pm and see the famous Atesgah (Fire Temple). It is the first main settlement of worshipers in Azerbaijan since the second century. Ateshgah, often called the "Fire Temple of Baku", is a castle-like religious temple in Surakhani town, a Baku, Azerbaijan suburb. Based on Persian and Indian inscriptions, the temple was used as a Hindu, Sikh, and Zoroastrian worship place.

    • Arrive at the Yanar Dag (Azerbaijani: Yanar Dağ, meaning "burning mountain"), a natural gas fire that blazes continuously at a hillside on the Absheron peninsula. Flames jet 3 meters high up in the air from a thin, porous sandstone layer.  Yanar Dag flame has been burning continuously for 3,000-4,000 years.

    End of tour.

What's Included
  • Free entrance to museums

  • Ateshgah – fire temple

  • Yanar Dagh (Burning Mountain)

  • Gobustan National Park: Petroglyphs

  • Lunch: a set of national dishes

  • Guide service

  • Pick up/Drop off

  • Transfer

What's Excluded
  • Personal expenses
Know before you go
  • Total price can change depending on the number of guests

Meeting Point

Baku, Azerbaijan

Cancellation Policy

For cancellations upto 2 days before the tour -

Refund of 80% of the tour price.
Price Details
The group size and price
1 To 4USD 100 Per Group

This is a group tour

Starting From

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USD 100 / group