3 Nights 4 Days Baku Tour Package

Itinerary

Day 1: Arrival Day

Pass By: Heydar Aliyev International Airport
Airport transfer to Hotel

Stop At: Flame Towers, Baku, Absheron Region
Night Baku Tour. visit Uppland Park
Duration: 30 minutes

Stop At: Maiden Tower, Baku, Absheron Region
visit to old town
Duration: 30 minutes

Pass By: House of Government
visit to Government House

Stop At: Heydar Aliyev Cultural Center, Baku, Absheron Region
Visit Haydar Aliyev Center
Duration: 30 minutes

Stop At: Dənizkənarı Milli Park
Lunch at traditional restaurant
Duration: 1 hour

Pass By: Azerbaijan Carpet Museum, Baku, Absheron Region
see Azerbaijan carpet museum

Meals included:
• Dinner
Accommodation included: 4 star Hotel

Day 2: Old City Tour

Stop At: Palace of the Shirvanshahs, Baku, Absheron Region
The Palace of the Shirvanshahs 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,Azerbaijan and, together with the Maiden Tower, forms an ensemble of historic monuments inscribed under the UNESCO World Heritage List of Historical Monuments.[2] The complex contains the main building of the palace, Divanhane, the burial-vaults, the shah's mosque with a minaret, Seyid Yahya Bakuvi's mausoleum (the so-called "mausoleum of the dervish"), south of the palace, a portal in the east, Murad's gate, a reservoir and the remnants of a bath house. Earlier, there was an ancient mosque, next to the mausoleum. There are still ruins of the bath and the lamb, belong to the west of the tomb.
Duration: 30 minutes

Stop At: Maiden Tower, Baku, Absheron Region
The Maiden Tower is a 12th-century monument in the Old City, Baku, Azerbaijan. Along with the Shirvanshahs' Palace, dated to the 15th century, it forms a group of historic monuments listed in 2001 under the UNESCO World Heritage List of Historical Monuments as cultural property, Category III. It is one of Azerbaijan's most distinctive national emblems, and is thus featured on Azeri currency notes and official letterheads.
Duration: 20 minutes

Meals included:
• Lunch
• Breakfast
Accommodation included: 4 star Hotel

Day 3: Gobustan & Absheron Tour

Stop At: Gobustan Rock Art, Baku, Absheron Region
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.
Duration: 1 hour

Stop At: Mud Volcanoes, Qobustan, Daghlig Shirvan Region
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.
Duration: 30 minutes

Stop At: Ateshgah, 5th Century Zoroastrian Temple
The Baku Ateshgah, often called the "Fire Temple of Baku" is a castle-like religious temple in Surakhani town (in Suraxanı raion), a suburb in Baku, Azerbaijan.
Based on Persian inscriptions, the temple was used as a Hindu, Sikh, and Zoroastrian place of worship. "Atash" 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. The natural eternal flame went out in 1969, after nearly a century of exploitation of petroleum and gas in the area, but is now lit by gas piped from the nearby city
Duration: 30 minutes

Stop At: Ateshgah - Fire Temple, Baku, Absheron Region
A fire temple in Zoroastrianism is the place of worship for Zoroastrians, often called dar-e mehr (Persian) or agiyari (Gujarati). In the Zoroastrian religion, fire (see atar), together with clean water (see aban), are agents of ritual purity. Clean, white "ash for the purification ceremonies regarded as the basis of ritual life", which "are essentially the rites proper to the tending of a domestic fire, for the temple [fire] is that of the hearth fire raised to a new solemnity". For, one "who sacrifices unto fire with fuel in his hand ..., is given happiness"
Duration: 30 minutes

Stop At: Ramana Castle, Baku, Absheron Region
Ramana Tower (Azerbaijani: Ramana qalası) – is a tower in Ramana village of Baku and dated back to the 12th century. Height of the tower is 15 metres (49 ft).Exact construction date of the tower, which is built of white stone, is not known. It is considered that the tower was built for the purpose of defense and used as a castle during the Shirvanshahs’ reign.
Duration: 30 minutes

Meals included:
• Lunch
• Breakfast
Accommodation included: 4 star Hotel

Day 4: Transfer to Airport

Stop At: Heydar Aliyev International Airport
transfer to airport
Duration: 30 minutes

Meals included:
• Breakfast
No accommodation included on this day.