Eid Azerbaijan Escape

📅   Day 1   |   ARRIVAL IN BAKU - TRANSFER TO THE HOTEL- CHECK IN

• Meet and greet on arrival and transfer to your hotel.
  Overnight stay at the hotel in Baku.

📅   Day 2   |    Baku City Tour (B)

• Breakfast at the hotel.
  You start with Heydar Aliyev Centre designed by world-famous architect Zaha Hadid. Make a stop next to the popular “I love Baku” sign to take some photos. Afterwards, you visit Baku`s most popular landmark - Flame Towers Baku which is composed of 3 buildings fully covered with LED screens reflecting different visual characters in motion, easily visible from the far corners of the city in the evening. Walk along the Alley of Martyrs which is usually being included in the protocol visits of the foreign officials. Enjoy the panoramic view of the city and its bay from Baku’s Highland Park (also called Upland Park), the highest point in the Azerbaijani capital.

• Take a short walk along Baku Boulevard to see buildings of the International Mugham Center, Azerbaijan National Carpet Museum, and wander between the decorative stone bridges of so-called Little Venice, a small town on the water and one of the jewels of Baku. It has two large and several small islands, and its gondolas are traveling in channels full of still and clean water.

• Cross the street and enter Icherisheher (Inner City), known as a “Fortress” or “Old City”, a unique historical and architectural conservation area in the center of Baku. Maiden Tower (12th century) and The Palace of Shirvanshahs (13th-16th century) are the best-known historical monuments located in the Old City. Besides them there are a lot of other unique monuments such as mosques, minarets, the remnants of caravanserais “Multani” and “Bukhara”, ancient baths, etc. Stroll down the paved streets of this ancient city and drop to some of the numerous souvenir shops where you can buy national clothes, kerchiefs, scarves and caps, dishes and handmade carpets.

• Lunch at local restaurant.

• After leaving Old City move to the modern downtown, straight to the Fountain Square, the most popular public place with many restaurants and shops, main location for public festivals, shows and celebrations and pedestrian Nizami street, old trading zone with lots of shops and boutiques.

• Overnight stay at the hotel in Baku.

📅   Day 3  |    Gabala Tour (B)

• Breakfast at the hotel.
  Gabala is one of the most beautiful provinces of Azerbaijan with rich and ancient history. For 600 years the city named Kabala used to be the capital of Caucasian Albania, an ancient state that used to exist on the territory of modern Azerbaijan back in the days. The ruins of the ancient city and the main gate of Caucasian Albania had survived until today.

• On the way to Gabala you will pass so called Russian forest, river valleys, the famous Chestnut Forest and numerous picturesque villages. We will make a stop at authentic bucket bazaar to buy some fruits and vegetables which are measured and sold by bucket, not by scale.

• Gabala region is rich with natural assets. Nohur Lake has a fabulous location with a spectacular view to the Caucasus Mountains.

• Spend time in Tufandag Winter-Summer Tourism Complex which provides green and blue ski slopes for beginners and moderate skiers, as well as red and black slopes for professionals. It is possible to rent needed skiing equipment in the skiing center on the territory of the resort. If you want to take ski lessons, professional instructors will be at your disposal.

• Have a breathtaking drive in a cable car: four ropeways extending over 5.5 km will take you for a journey up to a mountain top at 1920 m height, opening spectacular views of Gabala and surrounding mountains.

• At Gabala Shooting Club (Optional) in the village of Bum you can improve your aim and enjoy its beautiful natural surroundings. It is a multi-purpose and world-class shooting facility that can serve both as a recreational and entertainment center.

• Overnight stay at the hotel in Baku.

📅   Day 4   |    Quba Tour (B)

• Breakfast at the hotel.
  Explore one of the favorite tourist destinations because of its shady woods and gorgeous mountains. Famous for carpets and apples, the town of Quba sits on a cliff top overlooking the Qudiyalchay River. Fall in love with the first stop on the way is Beshbarmag (Five Fingers) Mountain known for its mythical stories.

• Iconic Juma (Friday) Mosque is one of the oldest mosques in Quba city, built from the red brick in 1802. Its construction is typical only for the mosques of Quba province. The mosque has a cylinder-shaped structure and the form of regular octagon. In fact, the interior of the mosque is bigger than expected from outside. There is a large dome with a diameter of 16 meters covering the hall.

• Quba carpets feature intricate designs that take inspiration from nature and geometric patterns, plus a variety of vivid colors. Each village had signature patterns, though many have been lost to time. Discover Carpet Weaving Factory in Quba aims to bringing back the art of carpet weaving and reviving the skills and knowledge needed to keep this ancient art alive.

• Experience the wonderful shady Gachresh forest the road goes further to the mountains above the Gudiyalchay river and to the Mestdergah Waterfall.

📅   Day 5   |   CHECK OUT - DEPARTURE

• Breakfast at hotel.

• Check out from hotel as per flight departure time.

• Baku Airport drop

!! Have a safe journey back home with happy memories.!!

Note: We reserve the right to make changes to the exact order of visits and activities (museums and sites) if it is deemed necessary (because of bad weather, unforeseen circumstances or all others, which are beyond our control), but they always take place during the tour.