Gobustan,Mud Volcanoes & Absheron Peninsula Full Day Tour - Baku

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Key Details

  • Mobile Voucher Accepted
  • Hotel pickup Available
  • Duration: 7 Hrs
  • Language:
    English
  • Departure Time :
    10:00 AM Hotel pickups commence prior to this time
  • Return Details :
    Hotel pickups commence prior to this time
  • Cancellation Policy :
    This activity is non-refundable Tours booked using discount coupon codes will be non refundable.

Overview

Gobustan, Mud Volcanoes and Absheron tour isa one day trip and covers the major museums and historical places of the city. Below the places you will visit during the tour:
- Gobustan national museum & Gobustan Art Rock
- Mud volcanoes
- Fire temple
- Burning mountain
- The world's first industrially drilled oil Well
- Bibiheybat mosque
- Heydar Aliyev cultural center

Know More about this tour


Whenever we reach to Gobustan area, we will change our transport ( because, the road leading to Mud Volcanoes is in bad condition, so only specific cars specially russian cars can get there) and lead to the Mud Volcanoes.Home to nearly a third of the world's mud volcano's, Azerbaijan features a messy, bubbling, and sometimes explosive landscape. Mud volcanoes are closely associated with hydrocarbon and petrochemical stores underground, hence the gas trying to escape to the surface. A few of these gas leaks are constantly on fire, shooting small perpetual flames into the air and some believe that these perpetual flames are strongly connected to the appearance of the Zoroastrian religion in Azerbaijan some 2,000 years ago.Every 20 years or so, one of these mud/gas volcanoes will ignite deep below the surface and create a massive explosion. While generally not dangerous to people, as they are far outside of most city centers, it is believed that six shepherds and over 2,000 sheep were killed by a mud volcano in Bozdagh, Azerbaijan.
After coming back from Mud Volcanoes we get back to our car and go first to the Gobustan museum, and after spending some time there we lead to the Gobustan Rock Art (open air museum).Gobustan State Reserve located west of the settlement of Gobustan, about 40 miles southwest of the centre 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 primitive people, animals, battle-pieces, ritual dances, bullfights, boats with armed oarsmen, warriors with lances in their hands, camel caravans, pictures of sun and stars, on the average dating back to 5,000-20,000 years.
On the way back from Gobustan area we will pass through the Bibi-Heybat Mosque, where we will stop for a while
Going on our tour next destination will be Yanardag (Burning Mountain), where our guest will discover the natural fire burning steadily.Yanar Dag (Azerbaijani: Yanar Dağ, meaning "burning mountain") is a natural gas fire which blazes continuously on a hillside on the Absheron Peninsula on the Caspian Sea near Baku. Unlike mud volcanoes, the Yanar Dag flame burns fairly steadily, as it involves a steady seep of gas from the subsurface. It is claimed that the Yanar Dag flame was only noted when accidentally lit by a shepherd in the 1950s.
The Baku Ateshgah (from Persian: آتشگاه‎, Atashgāh, Azerbaijani: Atəşgah), often called the "Fire Temple of Baku" is a castle-like religious temple in Surakhani town, a suburb in Baku, Azerbaijan.Based on Persian inscriptions, the temple was used as a Hindu, Sikh, and Zoroastrian place of worship. "Atash" (آتش) is the Persian word for fire. The pentagonal complex, which has a courtyard surrounded by cells for monks and a tetrapillar-altar in the middle, was built during the 17th and 18th centuries. It was abandoned in the late 19th century, probably due to the dwindling of the Indian population in the area. The natural eternal flame went out in 1969, after nearly a century of exploitation of petroleum and gas in the area, but is now lit by gas piped from the nearby city.

Itinerary:


Whenever we reach to Gobustan area, we will change our transport ( because, the road leading to Mud Volcanoes is in bad condition, so only specific cars specially russian cars can get there) and lead to the Mud Volcanoes. Home to nearly a third of the world's mud volcano's, Azerbaijan features a messy, bubbling, and sometimes explosive landscape. Mud volcanoes are closely associated with hydrocarbon and petrochemical stores underground, hence the gas trying to escape to the surface. A few of these gas leaks are constantly on fire, shooting small perpetual flames into the air and some believe that these perpetual flames are strongly connected to the appearance of the Zoroastrian religion in Azerbaijan some 2,000 years ago. Every 20 years or so, one of these mud/gas volcanoes will ignite deep below the surface and create a massive explosion. While generally not dangerous to people, as they are far outside of most city centers, it is believed that six shepherds and over 2,000 sheep were killed by a mud volcano in Bozdagh, Azerbaijan.
After coming back from Mud Volcanoes we get back to our car and go first to the Gobustan museum, and after spending some time there we lead to the Gobustan Rock Art (open air museum). Gobustan State Reserve located west of the settlement of Gobustan, about 40 miles southwest of the centre 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 primitive people, animals, battle-pieces, ritual dances, bullfights, boats with armed oarsmen, warriors with lances in their hands, camel caravans, pictures of sun and stars, on the average dating back to 5,000-20,000 years.
On the way back from Gobustan area we will pass through the Bibi-Heybat Mosque, where we will stop for a while
Going on our tour next destination will be Yanardag (Burning Mountain), where our guest will discover the natural fire burning steadily. Yanar Dag (Azerbaijani: Yanar Dağ, meaning "burning mountain") is a natural gas fire which blazes continuously on a hillside on the Absheron Peninsula on the Caspian Sea near Baku. Unlike mud volcanoes, the Yanar Dag flame burns fairly steadily, as it involves a steady seep of gas from the subsurface. It is claimed that the Yanar Dag flame was only noted when accidentally lit by a shepherd in the 1950s.
The Baku Ateshgah (from Persian: آتشگاه‎, Atashgāh, Azerbaijani: Atəşgah), often called the "Fire Temple of Baku" is a castle-like religious temple in Surakhani town, a suburb in Baku, Azerbaijan. Based on Persian inscriptions, the temple was used as a Hindu, Sikh, and Zoroastrian place of worship. "Atash" (آتش) is the Persian word for fire. The pentagonal complex, which has a courtyard surrounded by cells for monks and a tetrapillar-altar in the middle, was built during the 17th and 18th centuries. It was abandoned in the late 19th century, probably due to the dwindling of the Indian population in the area. The natural eternal flame went out in 1969, after nearly a century of exploitation of petroleum and gas in the area, but is now lit by gas piped from the nearby city.

Inclusions

  • Hotel pickup and drop-off
  • Comfortable car with English speaking driver

Exclusions

  • Food and drinks
  • Entrance fees to the museums (Gobustan, Fire Temple, Yanardag)
  • Other expenses

Additional Info

Suitable for all physical fitness levels

Traveler Reviews

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  • 03-Oct-2022

    Amazing, the tour was well organized personalized to your liking. I was on a babymoon on my early third trimester, Azar recommended activities that are suitable for me. Thank you Best baku tours!

  • 09-Feb-2022

    Our private full day tour with Parvin was absolutely brilliant for me and my parents! Parvin was the best guide, very knowledgeable, a great driver, always willing to help, and good company for a day out exploring. The sites are very interesting. I had been to Ateshgah without a guide before but going with Parvin made it a much better experience - he really bought it to life. Thank you for such a great, unforgettable trip!

  • 03-Dec-2021

    Great trip! Our family loved going to Qobustan, seeing and learning the thousand years old Petroglyphs. The drive to the Mud Volcanoes was an amazing experience! It was really cool seeing the Mud Volcanoes almost up close while they were bubbling. We enjoyed our trip with our guide Emin and definitely would recommend him to others visiting Baku.

  • 30-Nov-2021

    It was bayond expectation.Best tour with full of entertainment.Best Guide we had.Mr.Zikerrya , who knows full history , have good grip on English and very respectful and friendly with kids. If I visit again , I will definitely book this company tour and same guide. Highly recommended …

  • 19-Oct-2021

    Kamran is an excellent tour guide/driver! He is always on time and exceeds our expectations. He is always willing to help and always find a solution or an alternative to every problem.

  • 28-Feb-2020

    We spent a perfect day around Baku with Azar who was very well acquainted with history, stories and made the tour very pleasant. To reach the mud volcanos we had to switch cars and had a great Lada experience. There was nothing to reproach during the tour. We honestly recomend it!

  • 02-Feb-2020

    The tour was organised by Azar very friendly and helpful , our guide was Kamran very nice and experienced person we really enjoyed our tour , very informative and historical tour , definitely recommend this tour , in short time and very reasonable price you can visit most of places .

  • 03-Dec-2019

    We had an amazing tour with our tout guide Azar. He is so kind and well aware of the places we’ve been through. Definitely recommends him when you take your vacation to Baku and Azerbaijan. It was also a really nice place to visit to tick off from the bucket list.

  • 05-Nov-2019

    We booked this tour through Best Baku through email communication before our arrival. We chose to do a private tour for 2 at 90 usd for the day. This did not include lunch & ticket costs to the attractions. But the private tour worked out really well. We got picked up at 9 am by Azar, our guide cum driver in a clean and comfortable car. He was punctual, polite, knowledgeable & spoke English very well. 9 am start kept us ahead of the big tourist rush. This full day tour covers the essentials around Baku & the Heydar Alyiev Centre, which is a little out of the way though inside Baku. So even if you have 2 days in Azerbaijan for tourism, this should be the agenda for one of the 2 days. The Burning Mountain, the mud volcanoes are very unique to Azerbaijan as very few locations elsewhere in the World have this. Juts a tip for the mud volcanoes ... carry an empty jar ... to bring back some of the mud for use later. Carry some tissue and water to wipe off the mud which you may end up touching. We never felt rushed. The lunch spot was well chosen with a lot of local food options, I did consider doing a self drive version of this ,,, but having done the guided private tour ... I would recommend the private guided tour.

  • 16-Oct-2019

    We had private tour for two people with our guide Hamran. He was excellent from start to finish. He had a great knowledge of the places we visited but was also happy to chat with us about his country and its history, culture etc. The rock art is really good but the mud volcanoes were awesome.

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