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Explore Gobustan State Reserve on a full-day private tour

Baku
Book online or call: +44 0800 015 4961
Duration: 6 h
Activity Level: Moderate
Experience: Adventure, Unesco, Ecotourism, Family, Historical, Nature
Language: English
Photo permit included
Tour by public transport
Canal Boat tour included
Train tickets included
Suitable for little children
Wheelchair accessible tour
Museum ticket included
Light snack included
Lunch included
Transportation included
Walking Tour

Overview

Gobustan State Reserve is located in a picturesque place between the Great Caucasian ridge and Caspian See. It is famous for the cultural landscape of cave drawings made by ancestors in the stone age and subsequent periods, as well as their dwellings. This tour will take you to this ancient and mysterious place and to the spectacular mud volcanos which make the terrain look like the lunar surface.

What's included

  • Professional licensed guide
  • Transportation by a private vehicle
  • Pick up and drop off
  • Entrance tickets
  • Food and drinks

Highlights

Baku
Baku is the capital and largest city of Azerbaijan, as well as the largest city on the Caspian Sea and of the Caucasus region. Baku is located 28 metres below sea level, which makes it the lowest lying national capital in the world and also the largest city in the world located below sea level. Baku lies on the southern shore of the Absheron Peninsula, alongside the Bay of Baku.
Gobustan State Reserve
Gobustan State Reserve located west of the settlement of Gobustan, about 64 km southwest of the center of Baku was established in 1966 when the region was declared as a national historical landmark of Azerbaijan in an attempt to preserve the ancient carvings, mud volcanoes, and gas-stones in the region. Gobustan State Reserve is very rich in archeological monuments, the reserve has more than 6,000 rock carvings, which depict people, animals, battle-pieces, ritual dances, bullfights, boats with armed oarsmen, warriors with lances in their hands, camel caravans, pictures of the sun and stars, on the average dating back to 5,000-20,000 years. Gobustan State Historical and Cultural Reserve acquired national status in 2006. As a part of the 31st Session of the UNESCO World Legacy Committee included within the World Social Legacy List.
Mud volcanoes
Azerbaijan has the most mud volcanoes of any country, spread broadly across the country. 350 of the 700 volcanoes of the world are in the Azerbaijani Republic. Local people call them “yanardagh” (burning mountain), “pilpila” (terrace), “gaynacha” (boiling water) and “bozdag” (grey mountain) alongside its geographical name – mud volcanoes.
The Bibi-Heybat Mosque
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 Muhammad), and today is the spiritual center for the Muslims of the region and one of the major monuments of Islamic architecture in Azerbaijan. It is locally known as "the mosque of Fatima", which is what Alexandre Dumas called it when he described the mosque during his visit in the 1850s.

Itinerary

8:00 9:00 10:00 11:00 12:00

Meet your guide at the hotel you are staying in Baku and start your unforgettable trip.

The guide will drive you to Gobustan along the Caspian coast.

First of all, you will visit the Gobustan Museum where you will see the work tools of the ancient people who lived in this region. Then the guide will lead you to the mountains to discover the cave drawings.

The next stop will be the valley of mud volcanos and you will learn about their emergence and take amazing pictures.

The last stop will be the Bibiheybat mosque and mausoleum.

When the tour finishes, the guide will drop you off to the hotel.

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