Duration of Tour: 4-6 hours
Season: all season
Location: Baku, Absheron
Meeting point: Hotel or other appointed place
Type of Tour: Group and Individual
Language: - Russian, English, Arabic, German
Full day
Included
Included
Ateshgah Temple: The Ateshgah Temple or the Fire Temple is a castle-like temple located in the Surakhani suburb of Baku. The pentagonal complex, which has a courtyard surrounded by cells for monks and a tetra pillar-altar in the middle was built during the 17th and 18th centuries. It was abandoned after 1883.
Yanardag: it is rather a hill than a mountain, with natural gas burning on its slope from ancient times. Meter-long tongues of fire are licking the stratified earth approximately for 10 m in width, searing those who approached too close. People occupy the benches to watch the blazing hill in the evening, when the its sight is most effective.
The Qala Archaeological and Ethnographic Museum is a Petroglyphs covering the period from the 3rd and 2nd millennia B.C. to the Middle Ages, gavaldash (tambourine stone), ceramics, domestic and adornment items, weapons and coins, conserved remnants of ancient residential complex etc. found in the Absheron peninsula are displayed at the Complex.
