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Tour: Caspian pearl
3 days, 2 nights
Day 1: Baku
Arrival to Baku. Hotel accommodation.
Excursion in Baku: Excursion begins with a visit to Nagorny Park. It is located on a hill in the western part of the city. This is the best place to see the city itself and the Baku Bay. Tourists will visit and see: Flag Square, Baku Boulevard, the Government House (formerly the House of Soviets), the building of the first casino in the Caucasus, the Philharmonic Hall, City Hall, and they will visit the Governor's Garden.
Walking tour to the "Old City": the block of the old Baku "Ichery – Shekher", historical and architectural reserve in the city center, in December 2000, it was included to the UNESCO list of World Cultural Heritage; Maiden Tower (XIIv.), mosque Bibi Heybat (XIIv.) built by Shirvanshahs Abu al-Fath Farruhzadom; Maiden Tower of the Shirvanshahs Palace (XVI c.), where were well preserved mosque, bath and entrance gates.
We continue along Nizami Street, a large pedestrian and shopping street in the center of Baku.
A walk along the Baku Boulevard including a forty-minute cruise across the Caspian Sea (on calm weather).
Dinner in he local restaurant.
Return to Baku. Overnight.      Day 2: Baku – Excursion to Gobustan – Baku
Breakfast. Departure to the reserve "Gobustan". Azerbaijan takes the first position in the world in terms of the number of mud volcanoes. There are as many as 350 pieces (in the world about 800). The dirt there began to spill out of the ground in this particular place only 50 years ago. You will be able to visit and climb up close to the craters of mud volcanoes and watch the bubbling of liquid clay.
In 2007, the cultural landscape of the art of Gobustan rock was included in the UNESCO list of World Cultural Heritage. There are about 6000 images that were created since the Mesolithic period and the Middle Ages. Figures are found mainly in caves and at the ruins of the rocks. Among the pictures, you can find hunting scenes, ritual dances, farming, depict of various animals, boats and various symbolic signs.
Lunch in the local restaurant. The temple of fire worshippers Ateshgah is located 30 km from the center of Baku and was revered at different times by Zoroastrians, Hindus, and Sikhs. This territory is known for such a unique natural phenomenon as burning natural gas outlets (underground gas coming onto surface contacts oxygen and lights up). The temple in its present state was constructed in the 17th-18th centuries. The pentagonal complex has an open courtyard with temple-altar in the center which was the place of pilgrimage for worshippers.
Next, Yanardag – one of the most famous and popular tourist places of the “eternal flame” in Azerbaijan is the mountain of Yanar Dag. Actually, it is rather a hill than a mountain, with natural gas burning on its slope from ancient times.
Visit to the Forest Oil Rig - a guide will provide you with information about the oil history of Azerbaijan.
Visit to the Heydar Aliyev Center (outside). Gala dinner at a local restaurant - for additional payment. Return to the hotel. Overnight in Baku.
     Day 3: Baku
Breakfast. Depending on the departure time, free time. Transfer to the airport for your flight to back home.
Price for group minimum 10 persons: on request
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