Tour guide in Azerbaijan

Itinerary

Day 1: Unfading Old Town and Moder Baku

Stop At: Baku Old City, Neftchilar Ave, Baku 1000 Azerbaijan
Tour starts from “Nagorny Park”. The mountainous park is located on a hill from where you can enjoy a panoramic view to the city. Then guests will visit the "Old City" (Icherisheher) – walking tour. At the territory of "Icherisheher", included to the List of UNESCO heritage sites, several historical and architectural monuments are concentrated, including the Palace of Shirvanshahs, the symbol of the city of Baku - the Maiden Tower, the Caravanserai, mosques, and etc.

The excursion will continue with a trip along the central part of the city with a stop at the most interesting historical and architectural sites. During the tour, tourists will get acquainted with the Central Park, and with the sites located on the promenade (Carpet Museum, International Mugam Center, Old Small Venice, andetc.), walk to the site of the world's first well drilled industrially, from there we will drive to the Black City, which in recent years rapidly turns into a white swan – “White city”, where you can also visit the house-museum "Villa Petrolea" of brothers Nobels.

Next stoppage is the Center of Heydar Aliyev. The architect of this center is the world-famous British-Iraqi architect Zaha Hadid. In this center there are a few museums.
Duration: 5 hours

No meals included on this day.
No accommodation included on this day.

Day 2: Gobustan Rocks and petrogliphs

Stop At: Aqua Park - Kempinski Hotel Baku, M. Muhfig Street, 1C, Baku 1006 Azerbaijan
Departure to the historical and architectural reserve - "Gobustan". The reserve is widely known for its excellently preserved rock paintings - petroglyphs - a kind of artistic "archive" of human evolution on planet Earth. The rocks of Gobustan are not only the brightest witnesses of the prehistoric period of human existence. They have reflected the history of this region for almost 15 thousand years - from the end of the Upper Paleolithic era to the Middle Ages.

Mud Volcanoes

To the east of the Gobustan museum there is a group of active volcanoes Dashgil. You can visit and go up on the very crater of mud volcanoes and watch the gurgling and bubbling of of liquid mud. A beautiful landscape, as if you are on the planet Mars and the constant mud gurgling creates a feeling of an unearthly surface.
Duration: 5 hours

No meals included on this day.
No accommodation included on this day.

Day 3: Absheron Tour

Stop At: Absheron National Park, The Caspian region, Bakı, Azerbaijan
Tour to Apsheron (includes Burning Mountain, The temple of worshippers “Ateshgah” and Ethnographic museum “Gala)

“Yanardag” – burning mountain is one of the most amazing natural attractions of the Apsheron Peninsula. It is perhaps the most exotic place where natural gas comes from the earth, and can not be extinguished by rain or snow, covered with sand or blown out by wind. The hill has been burning for several millennia.

The temple of “Ateshgah”

Excursion to the Temple of Fire-worshipers - "Ateshgah". The Ateshgah fire temple) is located 30 kilometers from the center of Baku, in the southeast of the Apsheron peninsula, a place which was burning that attracted pilgrims, followers of one of the oldest religions of Zoroastrianism, and Hinduism.

Then we continue tour to the Ethnographic Reserve - "Gala". Gala is a museum that was built on the site of archaeological excavations. In the settlement, where are a number of quarters that have survived to this day. During the excursion the guests get acquainted with ancient dwellings, with the life of that time, traditions, and methods of farming.

Vizit Mardakan Tower of the XII century.
Duration: 5 hours

No meals included on this day.
No accommodation included on this day.