Baku, Quba and Khinalig in the Caucasus Mountains
Pick up from your hotel by your Azerbaijani tour guide. Then, stop at Beshbarmag Mountain, a religious place.
After this, visit the Juma Mosque. Juma Mosque (Friday Mosque) is one of the main mosques in the Quba region of Azerbaijan. The construction of the mosque dates back to the 19th century. The unique side of the mosque is its structure, which is not typical of other places in Azerbaijan except Quba.
Continue to the Jewish Red Town. Across the Kudyal River from Quba is Red Town, the largest Mountain Jewish settlement in the former Soviet Union. Red Town is the only entirely Jewish settlement outside of Israel and the United States.
Explore the Gechresh Forest.
In the end, visit Khinalig. It is located just south-west of Quba in the middle of the Greater Caucasus mountains that divide Russia and the South Caucasus. Khinalug is also the highest, most remote, and isolated village in Azerbaijan, and among the highest in the Caucasus. The weather changes dramatically during summer and winter, ranging from -20 °C to 18 °C. Khinalug has a population of about 2,000 people. This small group of people speaks the Khinalug language, which is an isolate within the Northeast Caucasian language family, although many also speak Azerbaijani.
