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Gobustan,Mud Volcanoes & Absheron Peninsula full day tour

By Best Baku Tours
Free cancellation available
Price is P 12,980 per adult* *Get lower prices by selecting more than 2 adults
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Features
  • Free cancellation available
  • 7h
  • Mobile voucher
  • Instant confirmation
  • Selective hotel pickup
Overview

Gobustan, Mud Volcanoes and Absheron tour is a 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
Activity location
  • Mud Volcanoes
    • Dasgil Hill
    • 3700, Qobustan, Azerbaijan, Azerbaijan
Meeting/Redemption Point
  • Mud Volcanoes
    • Dasgil Hill
    • 3700, Qobustan, Azerbaijan, Azerbaijan

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Full day Absheron-Gobustan tour
  • Activity duration is 7 hours7h
    7h

Pickup included

Price details
P 11,505.00 x 1 AdultP 11,505.00
Paid at activityP 1,475.00
Total
Price is P 12,980.00
Until Fri, Dec 12

What's included, what's not

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    Tour on a private basis
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    Hotel pickup and drop-off
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    Comfortable car with English speaking driver
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    Food and drinks
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    Entrance fees to the museums (Mud Volcanoes, Gobustan, Fire Temple, Yanardag)
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    Other expenses

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  • Suitable for all physical fitness levels

Activity itinerary

Mud Volcanoes
  • 30m
  • Admission ticket not included
Whenever we reach to Gobustan area, we lead to the Mud Volcanoes. Home to nearly a third of the world's mud volcanoes, 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.
Gobustan Rock Art
  • 1h 30m
  • Admission ticket not included
After coming back from Mud Volcanoes, we go first to the Gobustan museum, and after spending some time there, we go 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 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.
Bibi-Heybat Mosque
  • 15m
On the way back from Gobustan area we will pass through the Bibi-Heybat Mosque, where we will stop for a while
Yanardag State Historical, Cultural and Natural Reserve
  • 20m
  • Admission ticket not included
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.
Ateshgah - Fire Temple
  • 50m
  • Admission ticket not included
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.

Location

Activity location
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    Mud Volcanoes
    • Dasgil Hill
    • 3700, Qobustan, Azerbaijan, Azerbaijan
Meeting/Redemption Point
  • PEOPLEPEOPLE
    Mud Volcanoes
    • Dasgil Hill
    • 3700, Qobustan, Azerbaijan, Azerbaijan

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