Azerbaijan

Arriving at Baku International Airport. After emigration formalities, meet our representative at the airport. Transfer to Hotel and Check-in. After Fresh up, proceed for Panoramic City Tour at Baku.

Highland Park (Dagustu Park): Upland Park is located on a hill in the western part of the city. This is the best place to see the city and the Baku Bay which commands a breathtaking panorama of Baku.

Flame towers: Completed in 2012, this trio of sinuous blue-glass skyscrapers forms contemporary Baku’s modern architectural signature. The design was conceived as a set of flames, driven from the ground up one of the main hills of Baku. Fire symbolizes energy and eternity, and also goes back to the ancient worship of this element. Baku National Boulevard: the 2nd longest boulevard in the world, which is the favorite resting g place of the Baku residents and capital guests, stretching for a long way along the seashore.

Mini Venice: This “little Italian town” recreated at the seaside boulevard adds a special colour to the park. The Little Venice consists of several channels, where gondolas and gondoliers sail between the small bridges and invite the guests to a romantic journey. In the restaurants at the “shore”, you will be able to enjoy a tasty dinner, get some appetizer and drinks, or just relax with a cup of tea and make clouds with shisha.

Flag Square: If you go a little further towards the city you will find yourself at the National Flag Square. In fact, you won’t be able to bass by without seeing it. In May 2010, this flagpole has been registered in the “Guinness book of records” as the tallest in the world. The museum building, below the flagpole’s pedestal, is designed in the shape of an eight-pointed star. 

After dinner at restaurant transfer back to hotel.

Meals: In flight meals, lunch, dinner

Overnight at Baku

Post breakfast, check out & transfer to Gabala.

Gabala is considered a popular tourist destination due to the combination of a very good spring climate, mountainous landscape, and diverse fauna. Many sizable world hotel chains have a presence in the city. Natural climatic conditions of the region create opportunities for the development of both summer and winter tourism in the region. The northern side of Gabala belongs to the southern slopes of the Greater Caucasus mountain range, the central part to Alazan-Haftaran valley, the southern part to Ajinohur upland. Furthermore, the highest mountain peak of the republic- Mount Bazarduzu (4466 meters) is situated in this region. Gabala is around 225Kms away from Baku.

Visit Nohur Lake.

Nohur Lake: Guests will visit Nokhur Lake:-Beautiful quiet nature, clean water surface surrounded by high mountains – all this brings peace and a sense of distant exotic countries. Swimming in the Hohur lake is prohibited, however, fishing is allowed here – this is one of the main entertainment attractions that people enjoy near this place. Nohur lake which existed as a natural lake until 1949, used to be surrounded by a swamp covered with dense reeds and water plants and there was a lake with yellowish-green water in a deep groove in the central part of it. In 1949, by building a soil dam with 850 m length, 8-10 m height and 4-6 m width, a water-storage reservoir was constructed in the south part of this lake. 

After Lunch Proceed to Tufandag Summer Winter Complex:  Longest teleferic of the world – Whether for skiing, or just for memorable summer views of the Caucasus scenery behind Gabala, jump aboard the Tufandag network of four cable cars. The complex serves up to 3,000 people a day.

After Tufandag, proceed to hotel for Check in.

Meals: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner

Overnight at Gabala

Breakfast at hotel. Check out & transfer to Baku.

Icheri Sheher or Old city (Inner City): the pearl at the heart of Azerbaijan’s cultural heritage, has a history of thousands of years and is located in the historic centre of ancient Baku, the capital city of the ancient state of the Shirvanshahs and symbol of Azerbaijani statehood .The historical and architectural reserve includes the Shirvanshah Palace, Maiden Tower, Medieval Market Square, Icheri Sheher Archaeological Museum, caravanserais, mosques, madrassahs, bath-houses, Baku Khans’ House also numerous rich residences of the ХIХ century.

Fountains Square/ Nizami Street: Endlessly popular with strollers, this leafy piazza forms Central Baku’s natural focus. The fountains for which it is named include one topped by shiny silvered spheres giving fish-eye reflections of the trees and stone facades. And the beautiful statue-inlay ed facade of the Nizami Literature Museum (you can do shopping here as well).

Meals: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner

Overnight at Baku

After breakfast, Proceed to visit Gobustan and Absheron.

Gobustan State Reserve a UNESCO World Heritage site located west of the settlement of Gobustan, about 40 miles southwest of the center 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.

Mud Volcanoes – a whole family of ‘geologically flatulent’ little conical mounds that gurgle, ooze, spit and sometime erupt with thick, cold, grey mud. It’s more entertaining than it sounds – even when activity is at a low ebb, you get the eerie feeling that the volcanoes are alive. Azerbaijan is in the first place in the world for the amount of mud volcanoes. Mud volcanoes broadly spread in Azerbaijan. Half of the total mud volcanoes in the world is in Azerbaijani Republic.

Ateshgah (Suraxani Fire Temple) – “Fire Temple of Baku” is a castle-like religious temple based on Persian and Indian inscriptions, the Zoroastrian place of worship. Although the site was originally a place of worship for Zoroastrians, the fortified complex you see today was built by 18th-century Indian Shiva devotees.

Yanar Dag: Burning Mountain is considered as “eternal fire” and fulfills the trip with unique and interesting experience. In the 13th century Marco Polo mentioned numerous natural-gas flames spurting spontaneously from the Absheron Peninsula. The only one burning to day is Yanar Dag.

Meals: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner

Overnight at Baku

Breakfast at hotel. Check out & continue our sightseeing.

Heydar Aliyev Center– Is a 57,500 m2 (619,000 sq ft) 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 after Heydar Aliyev, the first secretary of Soviet Azerbaijan from 1969 to 1982, and president of Azerbaijan Republic from October 1993 to October 2003. (Photo Stop only).

After lunch at restaurant transfer to Heydar Aliyev International Airport to board flight your return. It is time to return home. The Heydar Aliyev International Airport is ready to take you in, for our return
journey to India.

Meals: Breakfast, Lunch, In Flight Meal

Arrive home with pleasant memories of your Azerbaijan tour.