+994 12 465 70 62

Chronicle of Times: Baku

5 days / 4 nights

 

195 USD

The traditional Caucasian hospitality, plentiful and delicious meals, desperately striking architectural sights are surprisingly combined with a careful attitude to what was before. The old city is surrounded on all sides by new Baku. With its modern skyscrapers, the work of local artists, shopping arcades for tourists. Combining the old and the new, Baku will not leave anyone indifferent. Amazing guests with its magnificent skyscrapers and impressive family traditions.




Tour program
( 6 days/ 5 nights ) 

 

 




Day 1: Fiery greetings from Baku

• Meeting at the airport with a professional english speaking guide.
• Information about the city and country on the way to the hotel with a professional guide.
• Check in and hotel accommodation.
• Free time.

 


Day 2: Mysterious Old Town
 
• Breakfast in the hotel.
• Walk through the historical part of Old Baku - Icheri Sheher.
If the city has an old city, then it has a heart. And it doesn’t matter how the metropolis is built and grows, this little piece of antiquity, like the roots of a tree, contains the entire crown of history. The historical complex includes many architectural monuments that have survived to our times: mosques, towers, churches, squares and other important buildings of the Shah's reign.
You will visit:
• Museum and palace complex of the Shirvanshahs (XV century)
• Maiden's Tower (XII century)
The Maiden’s Tower is the oldest symbol of the city of Baku. Most scientists believe that the tower was built in two stages: half in the V century, and the upper part in the XII century. But there are versions with dating that hint at the construction of the tower BC.
• Museum of miniature books
The world's only museum of miniature books is located on one of the streets of the Old City (Icheri Sheher) in Baku. All books are smaller than a palm. The size of many publications is not more than 1 centimeter, and the "area" of the smallest book in the collection is 2x2 millimeters.
• Workshop of Ali Shamsi
Tourists, walking along Kichik Gala street, have to stop near a 90-year-old tree with three female faces, take a picture with a lion on the facade of the workshop and go through the open door to admire Ali Shamsi's paintings, talk with the master and take a picture with him as a keepsake.
• Transfer to the hotel.




Day 3: New Baku

• Breakfast in the hotel
• Visit to the Heydar Aliyev Center.
Everyone admires this building: those who have visited Baku more than once, and those who came to us for the first time. The Heydar Aliyev Center, designed by the famous Zaha Hadid, immediately fell into the lists of the most amazing buildings of the 21st century.
•  Walk trough the streets of new Baku, the architectural feature of which combines the eclecticism of styles of the 19th and 20th centuries:
- Nizami Street
- Fountain Square
- Monument to Nizami Ganjavi
• Visit to Highland Park, from where a beautiful view of the city opens. Climbing the stairs higher and higher, you seem to climb the mountain. Your chest is filled with the cool and refreshing air of the highlands, your wings are spread, and you, like a bird, fly over this ancient, majestic city.
• Visiting Flag Square
• Walk along the Seaside Boulevard and a boat trip (depending on weather conditions)
Coming to Baku you should definitely visit the Seaside Boulevard. Visitors to the city will find many attractive places here: museums, attractions, parks, cafes, restaurants and much more. The boulevard itself is unusually beautiful and diverse. Its central part amazes with the richness of greenery and flowers, and the steps of the coastal strip end right at the sea water.
• Visit to the Carpet Museum.
• Transfer to the hotel.



Day 4: Bewitching Flames
 

• Breakfast in the hotel
• Meeting in the hotel lobby
• A trip to the village of Surahani.
The spread of Zoroastrianism in the territory of modern Azerbaijan was due to spontaneously flammable sources of oil and gas. Therefore, such a monument as the Ateshgah temple has been preserved in this area.
• Excursion in Ateshgah.
The Temple of Fire Ateshgah (literally the Fiery House) is located 30 kilometers from the center of Baku, on the southeastern outskirts of the Absheron Peninsula. Excursion to Yanardag. Near this small village on the Absheron Peninsula is Mount Yanardag. The word "Yanar" in Azerbaijani means "burning", and "Dag" - "mountain". And this is a real burning mountain - not metaphorically, but literally. Once upon a time, there were many places on Absheron where natural gas escaping from the earth to the surface spontaneously ignited, but with the beginning of the mass production of oil and gas on Absheron, these places began to disappear.
• Free time
• Transfer to the hotel.

 

Day 5: Gobustan cultural landscape with cave paintings

• Breakfast in the hotel
• Meeting in the hotel lobby
• In the morning, visit the Gobustan rock art landscape.
Gobustan is very rich in archaeological sites. The reserve has more than 6,000 rock paintings dating from 5,000 to 40,000 years old.
• Mud volcanoes.
By the number of mud volcanoes, Azerbaijan ranks first in the world. About 350 of the 800 existing mud volcanoes are in Azerbaijan. Most of them are concentrated in the Gobustan region. (it depends on the weather, because in rainy weather cars cannot reach the volcano)
• Free time
• Transfer to the hotel.


Day 6

• Meeting in the hotel lobby
• Transfer from airport.






                                                                                                           Tour Price *



         Accommodation   2 pax    4 - 6 pax   6 - 10 pax


  Hotel 3* (350 m  from the city center) 


  320 USD   240 USD   215 USD


  Hotel 4* (5 кm from the city center)


  340 USD   260 USD   235 USD
 

 

*Price is per person in group

*Price is per person in double room category
 

PRİCE İNCLUDES:

- Transfer / airport-hotel-airport
- Accommodation in a hotel in Baku 5 nights
- Breakfast in hotels 
- Professional English-speaking guide
- Individual transport within the program
- Sea of ​​impressions and emotions 


PRİCE EXCLUDES:

- Flights
- Lunch and dinners
- Entrance fees to museums
- Visa fees and support (+30 usd)
- Insurance
- Additional expenses

 

NOTE:

These prices may vary depending on the dollar exchange rate at the time of booking
*These hotels can be replaced by similar ones
* The company has the right to change the days of excursions and the sequence of tourist places?depending on the weather and/or other force majeure situations.



CONTACT INFORMATION

You can find us using the following data

59A, Hasanoglu str, AZ1072/Baku Azerbaijan

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Tel :
+994(12) 465-70-82 ; 465-70-62
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