Discover the largest Mud Volcano in the world- Toragay

Discover the largest Mud Volcano in the world- Toragay

In this tour you will have a chance to see the largest mud volcano in the world, and get closer to it. Beside it, you will also visit other historical places like Gobustan museum, Bibiyehbat Mosque and the world's first industrially drilled oil rig.

The places you will visit during the tour:
- Toragay volcano
- Gobustan National museum
- Bibi-Heybat Mosque
- The world's 1st industrially drilled oil well

Itinerary
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Stop At: Torağay Dağı, Azerbaijan

After picking up the guests we head to Gobustan area and whenever we arrive there, we will change our car to lada car, (because the road going to there is in bad condition) and head to Toragay Mud Volcano.
The largest mud volcano in the world- Toragay . The absolute h is more than 390 m. Its crater, 500-550 m in diameter, is bordered with 8 m high bank and is broken from the west side by mudvolcanic breccia flow, 1 km long and 250-300 m wide. The total size of the volcano is 3.8 by 2.9 km. Mudvolcanic sheet area come to 754 ha, the breccia average thickness is 100 m.

Duration: 1 hour

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

After coming back from the Toragay Mud volcano, we change cars, and take our comfortable car again and lead to Gobustan National Museum.
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.

Duration: 2 hours

Stop At: Bibi-Heybat Mosque, Baku Azerbaijan

On the way back from Gobustan area we will pass through the Bibi-Heybat Mosque, where we will stop for a while

Duration: 15 minutes