Tour Guaranteed Azerbaijan Tour (9 Nights / 10 Days)

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Entrance fee to museums Cable car to Tufandag Wine tasting in Ganja

Accommodation

5 x overnight in Baku – 3* Hotel 1 x overnight in Gabala – 3* Hotel 1 x overnight in Sheki – 4* Hotel 2 x overnight in Ganja – 4* Hotel

Guide

Professional guide service

Meals

Breakfast at hotels 1 x Lunch in Khinalug at local family

Transport

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

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Others

International flights Visa fee Lunch and Dinner 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 – Absheron Peninsula Tour
12:00 am - 11:59 pm

Day 2: Baku – Absheron Peninsula Tour

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 – a large pedestrian and shopping street in downtown Baku

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 which zoroastrians used to worship.

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 (9.8 ft) from a thin, porous sandstone layer.

Visiting Heydar Aliyev Center (from outside)

Back to the hotel

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

Day 3: Baku – Gabala

Check-out from the hotel

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

Continue to Juma Mosque, Mausoleum of Yeddi-Gyumbez in Shamakhi city

Drive through Girdimanchay River’s canyon to visit ancient Lahij village. Visiting the workshops of blacksmiths, potteries, carpet weaving shop, cobbled stone streets. Lahij was one of the main points on the 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 4 Day 4: Gabala – Sheki
12:00 am - 11:59 pm

Day 4: 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 – historical monument in Sheki

Back to the hotel

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

Day 5: Sheki – Mingachevir – Ganja

Check-out from the hotel

Visiting local Eastern Bazaar of Sheki

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

Arrival in Ganja: 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 6 Day 6: Ganja
12:00 am - 11:59 pm

Day 6: Ganja

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

Continue trip to Goygol Mountain Lake

Wine tasting in Ganja Sharab Factory

Back to the hotel

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

Day 7: Ganja – Baku

Check-out from the hotel

Continue trip back to Baku: on the way visiting Mausoleum of Nizmai Ganjavi

Visiting Mud Volcanos near Gobustan

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

Visiting Bibiheibat Mosque – which is a historical mosque in Baku

Arrival in Baku

Overnight in Baku
Day 8 Day 8: Baku – Guba – Baku
12:00 am - 11:59 pm

Day 8: Baku – Guba – Baku

Check-out from the hotel

Passage to Baku – Guba route. After 1,5 hour drive to Guba change of transport to 4x4 cars. 1 hour drive to ancient Khinalug village (2500 m high) going back to Caucasus Albanian period. Khinalug is one of 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 9 Day 9: Baku
12:00 am - 11:59 pm

Day 9: Baku

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

Visiting Azerbaijan Carpet Museum

Free time

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

Day 10: Baku

Check-out from the hotel

Departure to the airport

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Guaranteed Azerbaijan Tour (9 Nights / 10 Days)

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Itinerary of your trip Guaranteed Azerbaijan Tour (9 Nights / 10 Days)

Day 1: Baku

Day 2: Baku – Absheron Peninsula Tour

Day 3: Baku – Gabala

Day 4: Gabala – Sheki

Day 5: Sheki – Mingachevir – Ganja

Day 6: Ganja

Day 7: Ganja – Baku

Day 8: Baku – Guba – Baku

Day 9: Baku

Day 10: Baku

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