Overview
This 7-day tour of Baku and its surrounding regions offers a perfect blend of natural beauty, cultural exploration, and adventure. Starting with a visit to the picturesque Gabala region, you'll experience its famous winter-summer tourism complex, Nohur Lake, and beautiful mountain scenery. In Baku, you'll explore iconic landmarks like the Flame Towers, the Old City, the Heydar Aliyev Center, and the Fire Worshippers Temple. The trip also includes the unique landscapes of Gobustan, the Shahdag Mountain Resort, and the famous Yanardag Fire Mountain. This tour is a mix of history, architecture, and outdoor activities.
Top Highlights
- Gabala Tour: Skiing, cable car rides, and visits to Tufandaq Winter-Summer Tourism Complex and Nohur Lake.
- Baku City Tour: Visit to Highland Park, Flame Towers, Baku Boulevard, and Martyrs' Alley.
- Old City (Inner City): Explore the UNESCO World Heritage Site, including the Maiden Tower and the Palace of the Shirvanshahs.
- Heydar Aliyev Center: A modern architectural marvel designed by Zaha Hadid.
- Fire Tour: Visit Ateshgah Fire Temple, Yanardag Fire Mountain, and the Gobustan rock engravings.
- Shahdag Mountain Resort: Azerbaijan's largest ski resort, offering stunning mountain views and winter activities.
Day 1-2 :
Welcome to Baku. Gabala Tour
- Arrival at Airport
- Proceed to Departure to Gabala in the north-west of Azerbaijan The distance up to Baku 225 km (5 hours)
- Check in Hotel. Free time.
- Excursion in: Tufandaq Winter-Summer Tourism Complex offers cable car rides at any time of the year, skiing on the ski tracks of different difficulty level, ski training and ski school, catering service (cafe and restaurants), entertainment centres for kids, hotel and other services.
- Nohur Lake -It is located in Qabala, another region of Azerbaijan that one passes when travelling to Sheki. Lake is not on the way but if you go a bit deeper towards the mountains this beautiful view opens up in front of you.
- Back to Hotel
Day 3 :
panaramic Tour
- Breakfast in Hotel
- Back to Baku
- Check in Baku
- Assembly at lobby. Start tour. Visit to Highland Park-Alley of Martyrs, The National Assembly- also transliterated as Milli Majlis, Flame towers- the tallest skyscraper in Baku.
- View to Baku Boulevard which stretches along a south-facing bay on the Caspian Sea. It traditionally starts at Freedom Square continuing west to the Old City and beyond. Since 2012, the Yeni Bulvar (New Boulevard) has virtually doubled the length to 3.75 km.
- Back to Hotel
Day 4 :
Baku city tour
- Breakfast in Hotel
- Our tour program starts with Old City or Inner City is the historical core of Baku, the capital of Azerbaijan. The Old City is the most ancient part of Baku, which is surrounded by walls were well protected. In 2007, the Old City had a population of about 3000 people. In December 2000, the Old City of Baku, including the Palace of the Shirvanshahs and Maiden Tower, became the first location in Azerbaijan to be classified as a World Heritage Site by UNESCO (walking tour)
- Later group will experience the happening street of Nizami Street known for shopping. The street's history could be traced back to Baku's town-planning project of 1864. The street runs through the city's downtown from west to east. It begins from Abdulla Shaig Street, in mountainous part of the city and ends at railroad bed on Sabit Orujov Street, near a monument to Shah Ismail Khatai in “Black City”.
- Tour continues with the visit to the charming example of modern achticture - The Heydar Aliyev Center – a 57,500 m2 building complex in Baku, Azerbaijan designed by Iraqi-British architect Zaha Hadid and noted for its distinctive architecture and flowing, curved style that eschews sharp angles. The center is named after Heydar Aliyev, the first secretary of Soviet Azerbaijan from 1969 to 1982, and president of Azerbaijan Republic from October 1993 to October 2003. (Photoshoot outside)
- Back to Hotel
Day 5 :
Flame tour
- Breakfast in Hotel
- Tour starts with Ateshgah (Fire Worshippers Temple) Based on Persian and Indian inscriptions, the temple was used as a Hindu and Zoroastrian place of worship. “Atash» is the Persian word for fire. The pentagonal complex, which has a courtyard surrounded by cells for monks and a tetra pillar-altar in the middle, was built during the 17th and 18th centuries.
- Trip to “Fire Mountain “-“Yanardag” –a mountain on Absheron peninsula, 25 km from north of Baku. Literally, word “Yanardag” means “Blazing mountain”. Blazing bodies of flame dance on stones and floor. Yanar dag 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, which itself is known as the “land of fire.”
- Tour starts with Qobustan which is best known for being the home to the famous rock petroglyphs .The area has been settled since the 8th millennium BC. It is known for hosting thousands of rock engravings spread over 100 square km depicting hunting scenes, people, ships, constellations and animals. Its oldest petroglyphs date from the 12th century BC. In 2007, UNESCO included the ‘Gobustan Rock Art Cultural Landscape’ in the World Heritage list.
- The Bibi-Heybat Mosque is a historical mosque in Baku, Azerbaijan. The existing structure, built in the 1990s, is a recreation of the mosque with the same name built in the 13th century by Shirvanshah Farrukhzad II Ibn Ahsitan II, which was completely destroyed by the Bolsheviks in 1936. The Bibi-Heybat Mosque includes the tomb of Ukeyma Khanum (a descendant of The Islamic Prophet Muhammad), and today is the spiritual center for the Muslims of the region and one of the major monuments of Islamic architecture in Azerbaijan.
- Back to Hotel
Day 6 :
Shadag tour
- Breakfast in Hotel
- Departure to Shahdagh (3 hours)
- Start to use Shahdag activities. The Shahdag Mountain Resort Complex was open to the public in 2012. It is located in the Azerbaijan's Greater Caucasus range, the site is located near Shahdag National Park, which is known for having an intact ecological system and an untouched flora and fauna. It is the first and largest ski resort in Azerbaijan. Plans for the project include 4-5 star hotels, golf-clubs, 160-180 cottages and other objects in the complex. The winter season in Shahdag begins in the second half of December and finishes at the beginning of April, depending on snow conditions
- Back to Hotel
Day 7 :
Departure
- Breakfast in Hotel
- Check in Hotel
- Departure to Airport for return flight
