Tour Hiking Tour Azerbaijan | Visit Azerbaijan

Guide

Professional guide service in Baku on Day 2 Hiking guides in throught the regions

Accommodation

3 x overnight in Baku – Home or Hostel 7 x overnight in regions – Home

Others

Cable car to Tufandag 1 x Bottle of water per person per day

Meals

Breakfast at home in regions 1 x Lunch in Khinalug at local family

Transport

Transfer airport – hotel – airport A/C comfortable transport Local transport to Mud Volcanos Local transport to Kish Temple 4x4 transport to Khinalug village

Not included:

Flights

Others

International flights Visa fee Breakfasts in Baku Lunch and Dinner Alcohol with meal Entrance fee Entrance fee to Goygol Lake 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 checking passport control greeting and transfer to home/hostel in the center of Baku

Overnight in Baku
Day 2 Day 2: Baku – Absheron Peninsula Tour
12:00 am - 11:59 pm

Day 2: Baku – Absheron Peninsula Tour

Breakfast at the hotel/hostel

Visiting Mud Volcanos near Gobustan

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

Sightseeing tour Baku:

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

Later visit 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.

Sightseeing tour to Absheron Peninsula:

Fire Worshippers’ Temple – Ateshgah: The temple was built over a pocket of natural gas that fuelled a vent providing an ‘eternal’ fire. This kind of use of fire in Zoroastrian temples led to the followers of Zoroaster (Zarathustra) (XVII-XVIII centuries).

Continue with “Yanardag” – “Fire Mountain”: is 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 (9.8 ft) from a thin, porous sandstone layer

Visiting the Heydar Aliyev Center (from outside)

Transfer to the home/hostel

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

Day 3: Baku – Guba - Khinalug

Departure at 7:00 AM in the morning

Transfer from Baku to Khinalug via Quba

Quba short excursion: Mass Grave, Red Village (Mountain Jew Settlement), Guba Carpet Weaving Center

Arrive in Khinalig

Preparation for hiking and take with you some food to eat during your hiking at lunchtime.

Hiking: Khinalug village – Galeykhudat village – Griz village – Jek village – Elik village

Overnight in Elik village at home
Day 4 Day 4: Guba (Khinalug)
12:00 am - 11:59 pm

Day 4: Guba (Khinalug)

Breakfast at home in Elik village

Start hiking at 8:00 AM in the morning

Hiking: Elik village – Haput village – Khinalug village

Arrive to Khinalig and lunch time

Excursion in Khinalug:

Khinalug is a must see for any traveler coming through Azerbaijan. Isolated from the outside world for thousands of years, this village of roughly 1200 people has preserved its own unique language and way of life for generations. Homes are built tier style up the side of the mountain using stone work and many roofs are still made of earth and mud. A new road makes access to this mountain escape a simpler endeavor than it once was. Some say the scenery on the ride up, as you pass through ’cloud catcher canyon’, is even more exciting than the village itself.

Overnight in Khinalug at home
Day 5 Day 5: Khinalug – Guba – Baku – Lahij
12:00 am - 11:59 pm

Day 5: Khinalug – Guba – Baku – Lahij

Breakfast at home in Khinalug

Departure at 7:00 AM in the morning. Transfer from Khinalug to Lahij via Baku

Arrive to Lahij: Lunch time

Lahij excursion (1-2 hours): Lahij is one of the most ancient villages in Azerbaijan; it is also one of the most treasured. Located in the region of Ismayilli, just a 3 hour drive from Baku, this village boasts cobblestone streets and the country’s oldest working sewage system. It’s famous for its iron workers, who make their water jugs and other crafts right in front of your eyes. The inhabitants of Lahij speak their own unique dialect, which has its roots in Persian.

Free time

Overnight in Lahij at home
Day 6 Day 6: Lahij
12:00 am - 11:59 pm

Day 6: Lahij

Breakfast at home in Lahij

Horse riding to Niyaldag Mountain

Lunch time

Turn back to village; Free time

Overnight in Lahij at home
Day 7 Day 7: Lahij – Gabala – Sheki
12:00 am - 11:59 pm

Day 7: Lahij – Gabala – Sheki

Breakfast at home in Lahij

Departure at 8:00 AM in the morning.

Passage to Lahij – Gabala – Sheki route

Visiting of Kish village: the first church of Caucasus

Arrival in Sheki

Visiting of 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

Overnight in Sheki at home
Day 8 Day 8: Sheki – Gakh
12:00 am - 11:59 pm

Day 8: Sheki – Gakh

Breakfast at home in Sheki

Departure at 8:00 AM in the morning. Transfer from Sheki to Ilisu village.

Ilisu hiking and excursion:

Two beautiful high-altitude valleys meet at charming little Ilisu. Amazingly this diminutive village of photogenic old homes was once the capital of a short-lived 18th-century sultanate. Many houses retain box windows, arched doorways and red-tiled roofs, there’s an antique mosque and several remnant fortifications. The square-plan of Sumu Gala Tower at the very southwestern end of the village commands a picture-perfect valley view towards distant snow-topped peaks.

At the northernmost end of Ilisu there are fine views from the Uludağ restaurant-resort. Turn right and hike 40 minutes uphill to find a locally famous waterfall.

Overnight in Ilisu village at home
Day 9 Day 9: Gakh – Zaqatala
12:00 am - 11:59 pm

Day 9: Gakh – Zaqatala

Breakfast at home in Ilisu

Departure at 10:00 AM in the morning. Transfer from Ilisu to Zaqatala (Jar village)

Free day

Overnight in Jar village at home
Day 10 Day 10: Zaqatala – Mingachevir – Ganja – Baku
12:00 am - 11:59 pm

Day 10: Zaqatala – Mingachevir – Ganja – Baku

Breakfast at home in Jar

Departure at 08:00 AM in the morning.

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

Arrival in Ganja and lunch time

Transfer from Ganja to Goygol and Maralgol Lake

Transfer from lakes to Baku

Overnight in Baku at home/hostel
Day 11 Day 11: Baku
12:00 am - 11:59 pm

Day 11: Baku

Breakfast at home

Free time

Departure to the airport

End of Program

11 days tour

Hiking Tour Azerbaijan

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Itinerary of your trip Hiking Tour Azerbaijan

Day 1: Baku

Day 2: Baku – Absheron Peninsula Tour

Day 3: Baku – Guba - Khinalug

Day 4: Guba (Khinalug)

Day 5: Khinalug – Guba – Baku – Lahij

Day 6: Lahij

Day 7: Lahij – Gabala – Sheki

Day 8: Sheki – Gakh

Day 9: Gakh – Zaqatala

Day 10: Zaqatala – Mingachevir – Ganja – Baku

Day 11: Baku

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