Azerbeijan Tour 6 Days
- Arrival in Baku
- Meet the representative of local company at the airport
- Transfer to hotel
- Free time
- Overnight
Day 2 - Baku city tour
- Breakfast
- Departure to Baku city tour:
- Upland park– Memorial Nagorny or Upper Park is located high above the coastal area of Baku.And you can have a wonderful view of the Bay of Baku with Primorsky Boulevard, the old town Icheri Sheher, the Maiden Tower and the Shirvanshakh’s Palace.
- Survey of a medieval part of city “Icheri Sheher” (Inner City) –Old City or Inner City is the historical core of Baku, the capital of Azerbeijan, The Old City is the most ancient part of Baku,which is surrounded by walls were well protected. In 2007, the Old City had a population of about 3000 people. In December 2000, the Old City of Baku, including the Palace of the Shirvanshahs and Maiden Tower, became the first location in Azerbeijan to be classified as a World Heritage Site by UNESCO.
- Visit to Miniatur book museum
- Juma mosque
- Walking at narrow and ancient streets old Inner city
- Shirvanshahlar Palace-The Palace of the Shirvanshahs (Azerbaijani: Şirvanşahlar Sarayı, Persian: کاخ شروانشاهان) is a 15th-century palace built by the Shirvanshahs and described by UNESCO as “one of the pearls of Azerbaijan’s architecture”. It is located in the Inner City of Baku,
- Visit to Nizami street– central street of Baku
- Fire temple -Ateshgah Ateshgah often called the “Fire Temple of Baku” is a castle-like religious temple in Surakhani town the temple was used as a Hindu, Sikh, and Zoroastrian place of worship. “Atash” (آتش) is the Persian word for fire. The pentagonal complex, which has a courtyard surrounded by cells for monks and a tetrapillar-altar in the middle, was built during the 17th and 18th centuries. It was abandoned in the late 19th century, probably due to the dwindling of the Indian population in the area.
- Burning mountain- Yanar Dag (Azerbaijani: Yanar Dağ, meaning “burning mountain”) is a natural gas fire which blazes continuously on a hillside on the Absheron Peninsula on the Caspian Sea near Baku, the capital of Azerbaijan (a country which itself is known as “the Land of Fire“). Flames jet into the air 3 metres (9.8 ft) from a thin, porous sandstone layer.
- Back to hotel
- Overnight in Baku
Day 3 - Baku to Gabala
- Breakfast at hotel
- Departure to Gabala city-Gabala is the ancient capital of Caucasian Albania. Archeological evidence indicates that the city functioned as the capital of Caucasian Albania as early as the 4th century BC. Up to the present time there are the ruins of the ancient city and the main gate of Caucasian Albania. Ongoing excavations near the village Chukhur show that Gabala from 4th – 3rd centuries BC and up to the 18th century was one of the main cities with developed trade and crafts.
- Arrival in Gabala/ check in the hotel and start the tour
- Visit to Cable car of Gabala-ride in a cable car to watch the nature and enjoy active rest in summer.There is more than 5-kilometer walking distance in the rope lines and 4 stations (points to stop). These are the L2 Riverside station with the height of 956m-1660m, the L4 Gabala cable car track with the height of 1251-1660m, the L5 Duruca cable car track with the height of 1251-1410m, and the L6 Sleeping Beauty cable car track with the height of 1410-1920 meters
- Nohurlake-Eye-catching Lake Nohur with the magnificent view to Caucasus Mountains, fresh air and water is one of the most picturesque places of Gabala.
- Back to hotel
- Overnight in Gabala
Day 4 - Baku to Gabala
- Breakfast at hotel
- Departure to Baku city
- Arrival in Baku
- Check in the hotel
- Free time
- Overnight at hotel
Day 5 - Qobustan tour
- Breakfast
- Departure to Qobustan -Gobustan State Reserve located west of the settlement of Gobustan, about 40 miles southwest of the centre of Baku was established in 1966 when the region was declared as a national historical landmark of Azerbaijan in an attempt to preserve the ancient carvings, mud volcanoes and gas-stones in the region.Gobustan State Reserve is very rich in archeological monuments, the reserve has more than 6,000 rock carvings, which depict primitive people, animals, battle-pieces, ritual dances, bullfights, boats with armed oarsmen, warriors with lances in their hands, camel caravans, pictures of sun and stars, on the average dating back to 5,000-20,000 years.Gobustan State Historical and Cultural Reserve acquired national status in 2006. As a part of the 31st Session of the UNESCO World Legacy Committee held in Christchurch, New Zealand on June 23 – July 2, 2007 included within the World Social Legacy List.[1]
- Mud Volcano–Azerbaijan has the most mud volcanoes of any country, spread broadly across the country. 350 of the 800 volcanoes of the world are in the Azerbaijani Republic. Local people call them “yanardagh” (burning mountain), “pilpila” (terrace), “gaynacha” (boiling water) and “bozdag” (grey mountain) alongside its geographical name – mud volcanoes.
- Bibi- Heybet mosque– includes the tomb of Ukeyma Khanum (a descendant of Muhammad), and today is the spiritual center for the Muslims of the region and one of the major monuments of Islamic architecture in Azerbaijan.It is locally known as “the mosque of Fatima”, which is what Alexandre Dumas called it when he described the mosque during his visit in the 1840s.
- First drilled oil well
- Overnight in Baku
Day 6 Transfer
- Breakfast
- Transfer to airport
Inclusions
- Hotel accommodation, BB included.
4 nights in Baku
1 night in Gabala
- Al transfers as per program private basis
- All mentioned tours and excursions
- English speaking guide
- Mentioned entrance tickets:
Miniatur book museum
Karavansarai of Old city
Gabala Cable car half way
Gobustan museum
Off Road cars to mud volcano
Fire temple
Burning mountain
Exclusions: