8 days / 7 nights
from 455
Day 1.
- Meeting with the tour guide at the airport, transfer to Baku
- Transfer to Hotel, accommodation in hotel, overnight
Day 2
- Breakfast at hotel
- Leaving hotel for Old City (Altstadt of Baku)
- Walking excursion in Old city: visiting Maiden tower (IX century), Shirvanshakhs
- Palace (XV century), Karvansarai Multani and Bukhara (XV century), places where
- Soviet movie “Brilliant hand” was filmed, Amphibian Man, Tehran 43 and so on.
- Visiting Martyrs Avenue and watching panorama of the city
- Walking excursion in Boulevard (optionally, tourists can rent a bicycle)
Day 3
- Breakfast at hotel
- Check out, leaving the hotel
- Visiting Bibi-Heybat mosque where Imam Huseyn’s sister was buried (one of the main figures in Islam)
- Watching the first oil fields
- Visiting Gobustan National Park (Site is under UNESCO World Tangible Heritage List) and watching the petroglyphs dating back to Stone Age
- Departure towards the western region of the country
- Visiting the German colonies: “Annenfeld” (Shamkir) and “Yelenedorf” (Khanlar)
- Built by German colonists from Baden-Wuerttemberg settled in these regions during the Ekaterina II period of Russian Empire
- Leaving for Gandja
- Sightseeing tour in Gandja: visiting Mausoleum of Medieval Age Azerbaijan poet Nizami Gandjavi, walking excursion to Alexander Nevsky church, Agyan church, Shakh Abbas
- Mosque, Mausoleum of khan of Gandja- Javad Khan
- Overnight in Gandja
Day 4
- Breakfast at hotel
- Leaving the hotel for Shaki
- Visiting the mountainous village Kish where ancient Alban Churches remains
- Lunch at local restaurant and tasting the main dish of Shaki “the Piti”Walking
- excursion in the oldest sites of Shaki city (Yuxari Bash)
- Visiting the Shaki Khan’s Palace (excellent example of Palace architecting during the late Safavids’ period)
- Visiting Folk Art museum of Shaki located in ancient Albanian temple.
- Visiting the Shaki Silk factory. Learning the old methods of silk production
- Visiting the Shaki Karavansarai
- Overnight in Shaki
Day 5
- Breakfast at hotel
- Leaving the hotel for Gabala
- Visiting Oguz city on the way to Gabala
- Familiarization with the local synagogues of Oguz
- Visiting the ancient Nij village and Udin’s church. (Udins are the descendants of the ancient Albanians and they kept their language and religions)
- Arriving in Gabala
- Accommodation at hotel in Gabala
- Free time (depending on the wish tourists can visit skiing resort Tufandag which is located 1660 meters above the sea level)
- Overnight in Gabala
Day 6
- Breakfast at hotel
- Leaving the hotel for Ismayilly
- Visiting the Ivanovka village (people of the Ivanovki are Molokans, Russian colonists who were moved here during Ekaterina II period of Russian Empire.
- Learning about the welfare of Molokans
- Moving to Baku through Muganly Pereval (photo capture in the most beautiful place of Caucasian Ridges)
- On the way, visiting Yeddi Gozal (7 beauties) Mausoleum in Shamakha
- Arrival in Baku
- Overnight
Day 7
- Breakfast at hotel
- Leaving for Absheron Peninsula
- Visiting the temple of fire worshippers - Ateshgah
- Transfer to Baku
Day 8
- Breakfast at hotel
- Transfer to Airport
- Visiting the “Burning mountains” (Yanardag) where natural gas output in suburban area of Baku
- Price specified per pax in DBL room
- Accommodation in 4* Hotels
- 4 nights in Baku
- 1 nights in Gandja
- 1 night in Sheki
- 1 night in Gabala
- Breakfast at the hotels
- Transer upon tour program
- Guide Services