Fairytale Baku Tour Itinerary

  • Arrival to Baku
  • Meeting at the airport
  • Transfer to the hotel
  • Hotel accommodation
  • Free time
DAY2 Day 2

08:00 - 09:00. Breakfast in the hotel

09:30 - 11:00. Departure from the hotel and the start of a sightseeing tour of Baku.

Baku is the easternmost citadel of Europe, as well as the only place in the world where the partition between the authentic East and the many-sided West runs along the walls of the Old City (Icherisheher).

As part of a sightseeing tour, you will walk along the main avenues of the city, get acquainted with its unique and admiring architecture of different times, plunge into cultural layers and milestones of history, see the city sung by Mayakovsky, Yesenin, and Dumy, visit oil fields, as well as modern unique mega-buildings such as the Flaming Towers and the Heydar Aliyev Center, plus view the city from a bird's eye view, as if in your own palm.

11:00 - 13:30. Walking tour "Secrets of the Baku fortress."

The “Old City” is the heart of our capital, which holds many secrets and fascinating stories. Walking around the Old City, you can not pass by the most attractive masterpieces of Baku architecture - the Shirvanshahs Palace and the Maiden’s Tower. Dozens of historical monuments are located on the territory of the old city - a market square, mosques, caravanserais, baths, houses, and the famous workshop of Ali Shamsi. It is also impossible to ignore the old cobblestone street where the films “The Diamond Arm” and “The Amphibian Man” were shot. It is worth visiting souvenir shops and try the national cuisine in one of the local colorful restaurants.

If desired, you can visit a wine boutique for tasting local wines (for an additional fee).

13:30 - 14:30. Lunch (extra charge)

Free time

DAY3 Day 3

08:00 - 09:00. Breakfast in the hotel

09:30 - 13:00. Departure from the hotel and the beginning of the excursion to the Gobustan reserve.

Gobustan - rock paintings and mud volcanoes included in the UNESCO cultural heritage list is one of the most memorable sights of Azerbaijan.

Tour of the museum (closed exhibition) and the reserve (open part)

Museum of Petroglyphs (Open Air Museum)

The Museum of Petroglyphs - the so-called Gobustan - is a mountainous place in the southeast of the Greater Caucasus Mountain Range, located 65 km from Baku. It was here that the ancient sites of primitive people were found, leaving behind a lot of rock paintings - petroglyphs.

If desired, you can visit the mud volcanoes (for an additional fee).

13:00 - 14:00. Lunch (extra charge)

14:00 - 18:00. Start of the Excursion in Absheron (Ateshgah, Gala Complex, Yanardag).

Ateshgah Temple of Eternal Flame is one of the most popular attractions in Baku. It is located 30 km from the center of Baku, on the outskirts of the village of Surahani. This area is known for such a unique natural phenomenon as burning outlets of natural gas. In its modern form, the temple was built in the XVII-XVIII centuries. It was built by the Hindu community living in Baku, belonging to the Sikh caste. However, the history of Ateshgah temple is much more ancient. Since ancient times, the sanctuary of Zoroastrians - fire worshipers (approximately the beginning of our era) was located on this territory. They attached mysterious significance to unquenchable fire and came here to worship the shrine. After the adoption of Islam, the temple of Zoroastrians was destroyed. Many Zoroastrians left for India and continued their faith there.

Archaeological and Ethnographic Museum Complex Gala

On the territory of the reserve covering 156 hectares, there are those belonging to the period from the III millennium BC. Until the twentieth century, mounds, crypts, houses, 4 structures for storing water, the ruins of an ancient castle, 5 mosques, 3 baths and more. To preserve these monuments, as well as further enrich the reserve through archaeological finds discovered in Absheron, in 2008, with the support of the Heydar Aliyev Foundation, the first open-air archaeological and ethnographic complex was created here. The museum complex occupies 2 hectares of territory.

Yanardag

Yanardag is one of the most amazing natural attractions of the Absheron Peninsula. It is a mountain slope engulfed in flames, which cannot be extinguished either by rain or falling asleep with sand, burning for several millennia. The frightening and at the same time bewitching fiery landscape is actually explained very simply: natural gas is released from the upper layers of the soil, turning into flame when it comes into contact with oxygen.

DAY4 Day 4
  • Breakfast in the hotel. Check-out before 12:00
  • Airport transfer
  • Departure