Around Baku Full day Group tour: Gobustan, Mud Volcanoes & Trails of fire

Around Baku Full day Group tour: Gobustan, Mud Volcanoes & Trails of fire

You will be picked up from your place early in the morning. We’ll drive more than 200 kilometres in total to see the ancient places.

Itinerary
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Stop At: Gobustan Rock Art, 60 km South of Baku, Baku Azerbaijan

At arrival to Gobustan you will be surprised with brand new, modern and very informative museum. After visiting the museum you will see the actual petroglyphs of Gobustan. We can proudly say that this is going to be the oldest thing that you have ever seen in your life. Walking in arid nature, exploring petroglyph sites and enjoying the beautiful scenery will be completed with picnic which is made especially for you. Tasty Homemade sandwiches, chilling soft drinks and for finishing herbs tea and sweets is all yours

Duration: 1 hour 30 minutes

Stop At: Mud Volcanoes, Dasgil Hill, Qobustan 3700 Azerbaijan

After finishing our meal we will head for mud volcanoes. Of course on the way we will see the roman inscription from 1th century which was left there by emperor Domitianus army. Off-road driving will be finished by climbing the mountain by car to reach the volcanoes. Once you are here you will be surprised that:
- This is look like a moon landscape
-The volcanoes are extremely cold
After exploring the territory, taking the pictures, observing how bubbles of mud comes out

Duration: 1 hour

Stop At: Qala Archaeological and Ethnographic Museum Complex, Mira St., 5 Qala district, Baku Azerbaijan

After visiting the Mud volcanoes we will head to the Gala open air museum. Sharing the impressions about sightseeing we will get the very old Gala village. There you will see a huge complex with 3 museums in it - open air ethnographic museum, Defensive Castle of 12th century and Museum of art from waste to art .Our guide will help you not to stray in the area. The museum’s area is 1.2 hectares. There are ancient dwellings ,stone and clay houses, movable tents made of animal skins, old bakery, market, pottery and other interesting medieval buildings. All this you can see, touch ,take photos even try to bake bread in the oven rough, smear yourself with clay or to feed the camels, horses and donkeys, peacefully resting in the stalls.

Duration: 1 hour 30 minutes

Stop At: Elite Horse Club, Mardakyanskoye Hwy., Baku Azerbaijan

The next destination after Gala museum will be Elite Horse Club. Here you can enjoy the nature, nice restaurant, see the horses from all over the world and ride them if you want

Duration: 1 hour

Stop At: Ateshgah - Fire Temple, Сураханский район, Baku Azerbaijan

At the arrival to a pentagonal complex Temple of fire in Surakhani,you will see a courtyard surrounded by cells for monks and castle-like religious temple-altar in the middle. Based on Persian and Indian inscriptions, temple was used as a Hindu and Zoroastrian place of worship. The name refers to the fact that the site is situated atop a now-exhausted natural gas field, which once caused natural fires to spontaneously burn there as the gas emerged from seven natural surface vents. Today, the fires in the complex are fed by gas piped in from Baku.

Duration: 45 minutes

Stop At: Yanar Dag, Binagadi-Balakhany Highway, Baku 0125 Azerbaijan

The latest destination will be Burning hills. Enjoying the interesting passage from highway to village roads and from village around oil derricks we will arrive the fascinating place in Mahammadi village, where the hill has been burning non stop for 16 CENTURIES!!! Natural gases comes out a hill set on fire...It has especially great view during the night time.



Duration: 30 minutes

Pass By: Bibi-Heybat Mosque, Baku Azerbaijan

We will pass by beautiful Bibiheybat mosque which is the holy place for Muslims here. We can stop here for a little while if needed