Tour price includes:
Price does not include:
• Air ticker
• Lunch
• Dinner
• Insurance
Arrival to Azerbaijan Baku.
Transfer to Hotel.
City Tour. We invite for an excursion in Old Town - "Icheri Sheher” with highlights, including the Palace of the Shirvans’ Shahs (the most striking example of the medieval palace structures in Azerbaijan, dating to the middle of 15th century); Maiden's Tower (the ancient fortress originally built as a fire beacon with eight floors); visit to Juma Mosque, antiques and carpet shops.
Lunch.
After lunch break join us to undertake a tour to the new city: Martyr's Cemetery, situated on the highest slopes of the west-end part of the city, this is the best place for panoramic view of the city and the Bay of Baku. You will have a walk along the National Park of Baku- Boulevard, the second largest one in the Europe. You will be introduced with the interesting facts and legends of the largest lake in the world better known as Caspian Sea.
Dinner.
Returning to the hotel
Overnight in hotel
Breakfast at Hotel.
This day is devoted for visiting to Gobustan reserve. Gobustan is an open-air museum with littered Neolithic rock drawings. Just 65km in the South of Baku, Gobustan has some 4000 inscriptions that go back 12,000 years (with some 2000 year old Latin graffiti to boot). You can see a lot of drawings made by Stone Age folks on the rocks, which reflect the daily life, especially as they were hunting and liked boogie. Their dances are thought to have been accompanied by the melodious strains of the Gaval-Dashy (Tambourine Stone) - a rock that has a deep, resonating tone when struck.
The well-preserved sketches display ancient populations travelling on reed boats; men hunt antelope and wild bulls, women dance. The famed Norwegian anthropologist Thor Heyerdahl returned many times to Azerbaijan between 1961 and his death in 2002 to study the site, which he argued to be evidence that modern-day Scandinavians migrated north through the Caucasus in prehistoric times. He found similarities in the drawings to those found in Scandinavia, particularly some in Alta, Norway. According to Icelandic Sagas, written in the 13-th century, the Norse God Odin (Wotan) migrated from the Caucasus in the first century AD.
Lunch.
Excursion to Heydar Aliyev Museum Center. The Heydar Aliyev Center is a 619,000-square-foot building complex in Baku, Azerbaijan designed by Iraqi-British architect Zaha Hadid and noted for its distinctive architecture and flowing, curved style that eschews sharp angles. The center is named for Heydar Aliyev, the leader of Soviet-era Azerbaijan. The Center houses a conference hall (auditorium), a gallery hall and a museum. The project is intended to play an integral role in the intellectual life of the city. Located close to the city center, the site plays a pivotal role in the redevelopment of Baku.
Back to the hotel.
Diner
Overnight in hotel.
Breakfast
Leaving for a tour in Absheron peninsula. This day will be spent primarily within Great Baku, where You will be taken to main sites on Absheron Peninsula
Ateshgah - the Fire Worshippers' Temple situated in Surakhany village. It was built on land where natural gas was burned eternally by Zoroastrian believers who travelled from the province of Multan in India to worship. These ancient fires are believed to have given Azerbaijan its name, which is thought by some researchers to mean the 'Land of Fires'.
Lunch
Excursion to Modern Museum of Azerbaijan. The museum was built at the initiative of the First Lady of Azerbaijan, Mehriban Aliyeva and opened on 20 March 2009. It was funded by the Heydar Aliyev Foundation, of which the First Lady is head. The foundation has also created projects with the Louvre Museum and the Palace of Versailles. The museum is intended as a focus for an "eco-cultural zone" conceived of by Thomas Krens, former director of the Guggenheim Foundation, that will also include a white-sand beach, a Frank Gehry skyscraper, and a walkway that projects out over the Caspian Sea.
Dinner
Back to the hotel, leisure.
Overnight in hotel
Breakfast.
Transfer to Airport.
