Tour Azerbaijan Tour (10 Nights / 11 Days)

Transport

Airport – hotel – airport transfer A/C comfortable transport Local transport to Mud Volcanos Local transport to Kish temple Local transport to Khinalug

Others

Entrance fee to museums Entrance fee to Mountain Cable Car Wine tasting in Ganja 1 x Bottle of water (0,5 L) p/p per day Breakfast at the hotel

Guide

Professional English speaking guide

Accommodation

5 x overnight at 3* Hotel in Baku 1 x overnight at 3* Hotel in Gabala 2 x overnight at 3* Hotel in Sheki 2 x overnight at 3* Hotel in Ganja

Not included:

Meals

Lunch and dinner

Flights

Others

International flights Visa fee Alcohol with meal Camera charge in museums if needed Tips Any other extra fee which is not shown in the program

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Day 1 Day 1: Baku
12:00 am - 11:59 pm

Day 1: Baku

Arrival in Baku; After passing passport control greeting and transfer to hotel

Check-in at hotel

Overnight in Baku
Day 2 Day 2: Baku
12:00 am - 11:59 pm

Day 2: Baku

Baku Sightseeing tour:

Panoramic view of Baku city and Baku Bay from Highland Park - Martyrs Alley, marvelous view of Flame Towers

Later, visiting Old city – Icheri Sheher: Entrance gates of Old Baku; fortification tower; Caravanserai complexes – Bukhara and Multan; Maiden Tower (under UNESCO protection); old mosques; bathes; Miniature Book Museum; Shirvanshahs’ Palace (under UNESCO protection); narrow small cobbled stone streets

Continue with Nizami Street – large pedestrian and shopping street in downtown Baku

Visiting National History Museum of Azerbaijan: the former mansion of Azerbaijani oil magnate and philanthropist H.Z.Tagiyev

Walking on Baku Boulevard, Boat Tour on windless weather

Back to the hotel

Overnight in Baku
Day 3 Day 3: Baku – Guba – Baku
12:00 am - 11:59 pm

Day 3: Baku – Guba – Baku

Passage to Baku – Guba route: After 1,5 hour drive to Guba change of transport to 4x4 cars. 1 hour drive to Khinalug village (2500 m high). Khinalug is ancient Azerbaijan village on top of Grand Caucasus Mountains going back to Caucasus Albanian period. It is the highest settlement in Europe. Walking in the village

Lunch at local family

After lunch drive back to Guba. Visiting Red Village – Mountain Jew village

Visiting Juma Mosque (outside); Guba Carpet Weaving Center

Drive back to Baku

Overnight in Baku
Day 4 Day 4: Baku – Gabala
12:00 am - 11:59 pm

Day 4: Baku – Gabala

Check-out from the hotel

Passage to Baku – Gabala route: on the way visit to Diri Baba Mausoleum in Maraza

Continue to Juma Mosque, Mausoleum of Yeddi – Gumbez in Shamakhi city

Drive through Girdimanchay River’s canyon to visit ancient Lahij village. Visiting workshops of blacksmith, potteries, carpet weaving shop, cobbled stone streets. Lahij was one of the main points on Great Silk Road.

Visiting Nohur Mountain Lake in Nohurgishlag village in Gabala

Arrival in Gabala: Check-in at hotel

Visiting Tufandag Mountain with mountain cable car

Back to the hotel

Overnight in Gabala
Day 5 Day 5: Gabala – Sheki
12:00 am - 11:59 pm

Day 5: Gabala – Sheki

Check-out from the hotel

Passage to Gabala – Sheki route: on the way visiting Chotari Albanian Church and Udi house in Nij village

Arrival in Sheki: Check-in at hotel

Visiting Kish village: the first church of Caucasus

Visiting Old Sheki: medieval fortress, The Palace of Shaki Khans – a summer residence of Shaki Khans, Historical Museum; Round temple (outside); handicrafts workshop of Shebaka, national musical instruments’, takalduz

Continue with Sheki Caravanserai – a historical monument in Sheki

Back to the hotel

Overnight in Sheki
Day 6 Day 6: Sheki – Gakh – Sheki
12:00 am - 11:59 pm

Day 6: Sheki – Gakh – Sheki

Visiting local Eastern Bazaar of Sheki

Passage to Sheki – Gakh route: on the way visiting Kurmuk temple near Gakh city

Visiting Mamirli Waterfall in Lekit village

Visiting Icheri Bazar in Gakh City, Ulu Korpu (Grand Bridge) on the way to Ilisu, Sumugala in Ilisu village

Drive back to the Sheki

Overnight in Sheki
Day 7 Day 7: Sheki – Mingachevir – Ganja
12:00 am - 11:59 pm

Day 7: Sheki – Mingachevir – Ganja

Check-out from the hotel

Passage to Sheki – Ganja route: on the way visiting Migachevir city on Kur River Side

Arrival in Ganja: Visiting Imamzade Complex of religious architecture

Visiting Bottle House (outside)

Check – in at the hotel

Walking tour in Ganja city: visiting caravansary; Shah Abbas Mosque (XVII cc.); Javad Khan Mausoleum; Azerbaijan First Parliament Building (today Agriculture University); Khan’s Garden; Aleksandr Nevski church

Back to the hotel

Overnight in Ganja
Day 8 Day 8: Ganja
12:00 am - 11:59 pm

Day 8: Ganja

Trip to Goygol Mountain Lake, hiking to Maralgol Lake

Visiting Helenendorf - former German colony settlement from Baden-Wurttemberg: German Lutheran Church

Degustation of Azerbaijan Wine

Back to the hotel

Overnight in Ganja
Day 9 Day 9: Ganja – Gobustan – Baku
12:00 am - 11:59 pm

Day 9: Ganja – Gobustan – Baku

Check-out from the hotel

Passage to Ganja – Baku Route: on the way visiting Mausoleum of Nizami Ganjavi

Visiting Mud Volcanos near Gobustan – Mud volcano is landform created by the eruption of mud, water and gases. Several geological processes may cause the formation of mud volcanoes. Mud volcanoes do not produce hot lava. The Earth continuously exudes a mud – like substance.

Visiting Gobustan National Park (under UNESCO protection): primary people carved their daily life styles on rocks. There are more than 6000 carvings on the rocks near the Caspian Sea Side.

Arrival in Baku

Overnight in Baku
Day 10 Day 10: Absheron Peninsula Tour
12:00 am - 11:59 pm

Day 10: Absheron Peninsula Tour

Absheron Peninsula Sightseeing tour:

Fire Worshippers’ Temple – Ateshgah: The temple was built over a pocket of natural gas that fuelled a vent providing an ‘eternal’ fire which Zoroastrians used to worship.

Visiting Qala Archaeological and Ethnographic Museum Complex: the open air museum where monuments are preserved in the territory of the Qala Village. Petroglyphs covering the period from 3rd and 2nd millennia B.C. to the Middle Ages, gavaldash, ceramics, domestic and adornment items, weapons and coins, conserved remnants of an ancient residential complex etc. found in the Absheron Peninsula were placed at the Complex.

Visiting Ramana Castle (outside)

Continue with “Yanardag” – “Fire Mountain”: a natural gas fire which blazes continuously on a hillside on the Absheron Peninsula near Baku which itself is known as the “land of fire.” Flames jet into the air 3 meters from a thin, porous sandstone layer

Visiting Oil Derrick Forest – the guide will give you information about oil history of Azerbaijan

Visiting Heydar Aliyev Center (from outside)

Back to the hotel

Overnight in Baku
Day 11 Day 11: Baku
12:00 am - 11:59 pm

Day 11: Baku

Check-out from the hotel

Departure to the airport

End of Program

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Azerbaijan Tour (10 Nights / 11 Days)

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Itinerary of your trip Azerbaijan Tour (10 Nights / 11 Days)

Day 1: Baku

Day 2: Baku

Day 3: Baku – Guba – Baku

Day 4: Baku – Gabala

Day 5: Gabala – Sheki

Day 6: Sheki – Gakh – Sheki

Day 7: Sheki – Mingachevir – Ganja

Day 8: Ganja

Day 9: Ganja – Gobustan – Baku

Day 10: Absheron Peninsula Tour

Day 11: Baku

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