Full day Gobustan & Absheron Tours with Lunch

Full day Gobustan & Absheron Tours with Lunch

This 8 hour tour to Gobustan is especially designed for tourists and visitors who are interested in Stone Age period of humanity, Unesco’s World Heritage and history, also tourists will have chance to see a group of Mud Volcanoes and Witness eruptions of mud volcanoes. Over a thousand mud volcanoes are known to exist in the world and some 400 of those are in coastal are in Azerbaijan. After Gobustan tour our guests will have a lunch. After having lunch at Traditional Restaurant tour will continue to Absheron Peninsula including Burning Mountain, Fire Temple State historical and cultural Natural Reservation to see the symbol of Azerbaijan (Land of Fire).Then Visit the worlds first industrialized oil well in Baku and on your way tourists can See one of the oldest mosques of Baku – Bibi Heybet Mosque

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

Gobustan State Reserve located west of the settlement of Gobustan, about 40 miles (64 km) 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: 3 hours

Stop At: Mud Volcanoes, Gobustan National Park, Baku Azerbaijan

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: 1 hour

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

The Baku Ateshgah often called the "Fire Temple of Baku" is a castle-like religious temple in Surakhani district, a suburb in Baku, Azerbaijan. Based on Persian inscriptions, the temple was used as a Hindu, Sikh, and Zoroastrian place of worship.

Duration: 1 hour

Stop At: Mardakan Castle, Mardakan AZ1044 Azerbaijan

The quadrangular Mardakan castle was built in the middle of the 12th century by Akhsitan I, son of Manuchihr III. It was erected after a victory of Akhsitan I. The tower was used as a shelter and observation point of feudals.

Duration: 30 minutes

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

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").

Duration: 30 minutes