Trails of fire tour: Fire temple,Gala open air museum,Burning hills and Elite HC

Trails of fire tour: Fire temple,Gala open air museum,Burning hills and Elite HC

This half day tour will cover Major places around Baku and a good choice to see most popular places in our city.
we'll provide you not only with a comfortable car and professional driver but also will guide you all the time and give you nice stories about places that we are visiting. we'll spice up your time by real facts about places, discussions and answering your questions.
So if you don't want a simple drive form point to point but also want to learn the history of places, want to feel the spirit of locals, this tour is for you...

Itinerary
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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 aHInduand Zoroastrianplace 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: Qala Archaeological and Ethnographic Museum Complex, Mira St., 5 Qala district, Baku Azerbaijan

This place have a good representation of middle ages lifestyle,including inside 3 different paid and 1 free museums, this place is unique and must see part of Azerbaijan

Duration: 2 hours

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

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

The next destination is “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: 1 hour