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Short
Tours in Azerbaijan
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Tour in Baku |
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Cultural Tour
(3 days) |
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Azerbaijan is the country of
ancient history and culture.
Here is more than 6 thousand
historical-architectural
monuments. It is a lot of
centuries back present region
served as a crossroads of
trading ways from Asia to the
Europe, was a key part of
caravan routes. Already then
numerous merchants, travelers,
ambassadors, historians,
ethnographers marked interesting
historical-architectural
monuments.
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Day 1 |
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City of
Baku
Meeting at the airport. Check-in at
the hotel. Start of excursion in Old
Town - "Icheri Sheher". See the
highlights of Icheri Sheher
including the Palace of the Shirvans
(the most striking example of the
Medieval palace structures in
Azerbaijan, dating to the middle of
15th century); the Maiden's Tower
(the ancient, eight storey fortress
originally built as a fire beacon);
visit Dzhuma Mosque, shops of
antiques and carpets, and the Carpet
Museum (the impressive building
located on the seafront)
Sightseeing tour in the city:
Martyr's Cemetery, located on the
higher slopes of the city's
west-end, this is the best place for
viewing the city and the Bay of
Baku. You will have a walk in
Naberezhny park (Boulevard) - the
second largest one in the Europe. On
Boulevard you can get a boat and
make 30 minutes trip on it along
Baku Bay of the Caspian sea -
largest lake in the world. Return to
the hotel.
Overnight. |
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Day 2 |
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Absheron
Peninsula
Leaving for a tour in Absheron
peninsula. The second day will be
spent primarily within the Greater
Baku, where you will be taken to
main sites on the Absheron
Peninsula. You will pay a visit to
Ateshgah - the Fire Worshippers'
Temple located in the village of
Surakhany. It was built on land
where natural gas burned eternally
by Zoroastrian believers who
travelled from the province of
Multan in India to worship. These
ancient fires are believed to have
given Azerbaijan its name, which is
thought by some researchers to mean
the 'Land of Fires'.
This day you will visit the Gobustan
reserve. Gobustan is an open-air
museum littered with neolithic rock
drawings. Just 65km (40miles) south
of Baku, Gobustan has some 4000
inscriptions that go back 12,000
years (with some 2000 year old Latin
graffiti to boot). Stone Age folks
sporting loin cloths pose hunt and
boogie down. Their dances are
thought to have been accompanied by
the melodious strains of the Gaval-Dashy
(Tambourine Stone) - a rock that has
a deep, resonating tone when struck.
There are paintings or etchings (petroglyphs)
of what appear to be long boats in
the style of the Viking ships of
more recent times. Famous Norwegian
researcher Thor Heyerdahl was
convinced that people from the area
went to Scandinavia in about 100 AD
and took their boat building skills
with them, and transmuted them into
the viking boats we know from digs
in Northern Europe. Besides being
famous for the petroglyphs the
Gobustan are also has some amazing
landscape, particularly an area
filled with mud volcanoes (about 7km
south of Gobustan), which provide a
quasi-lunar horizon.
Back to the hotel, free time.
Overnight. |
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Day 3 |
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Baku / Departure
Walk in the city centre. Pay a visit
to Baku high street – Torgovaya
avenue and Fountain Square and get
acquainted with city architecture.
At the end of the 19th century
Azerbaijan was responsible for more
than half of the world's oil
production, and Baku was rolling in
money. Between 1885 and 1915
hundreds of luxurious mansions were
built by entrepreneurs and oil
barons who had grown wealthy almost
overnight. The architecture they
created displays a unique and
exuberant blend of European and
Oriental influences, in which
neoclassical, Renaissance, Gothic
and Art Nouveau styles merge with
Persian, Egyptian, Ot¬toman and
Moorish designs.
Next stop will be The Museum of
Carpets & Applied Art (the
impressive building located on the
seafront - its collection was
enriched with the carpets brought
from Shusha Carpet Museum, evacuated
before the Armenian advance). The
Museum posses one of the best
collections of local and Persian
carpets which will be presented to
your attention. It has a brilliant
display of woven and knotted
Azerbaijani carpets, plus jewellery,
embroidery, metalwork and carved
wood. . The oldest carpet is dated
from XVII century. Here, you not
only can get acquainted with the
types of carpets but also can weave
your first little carpet
Transfer to Yanar Dagh. Yanar Dagh
is a mountain that has been
continuously on fire for one
thousand years. The natural gas
vents ensure that hot flames roar
out of the sides of this hill even
when it rains. There is a small cafe
next to the natural wonder that
serves tea and snacks.
Dinner in ‘Caravan-Saray’ national
restaurants located in the Old City
with national dishes and folklore
performances.
Transfer to the Airport. |
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Other details available upon request
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Note:
Duration of the tour must be fit to your
arrival and departure Flights. |
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Airport - Hotel - Airport
Transfer |
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Inland transportation |
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Tour Guide |
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Hotel Accommodation (in the
cities) Double room |
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FB Meal: BLD |
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Museums Entrance fees |
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Air
fare |
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Single room supplement
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Meals except described |
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Alcoholic beverages |
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Travel insurance
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