Paradisiac Baku & Sheki

📅   Day 1   |   Arrival in Baku & Transfer to Sheki

• Welcome to Heydar Aliyev International Airport in Baku where you will meet and greet our local representative. Get the transfer to Sheki & Overnight Stay at the hotel.

📅   Day 2   |  Sheki City tour and visiting Tufandag Winter-Summer Complex (B/-/-)

• After breakfast, proceed to the Caucasus Mountains to explore the ancient city of Sheki. This private tour delves into the history of the city, once the center of silk production, and visit many historic landmarks such as the Khans Palace, the Upper Caravanserai, and the Shamakhi Juma Mosque.

• it is worth visiting. Complex of Summer-Winter Recreation Zone "Tufandag", including Tourist Complex "Tufandag". Tufandag Winter-Summer Tourist Complex is located 4 kilometers far from Gabala city. The resort allows visitors to enjoy different extreme sports and tourist activities in harmony with nature. Tufandag complex provides skiing in winter, going up to the mountains by cable cars in summer, mountain climbing by ATV quad bikes and other types of entertainment & overnight at Sheki.

📅   Day 3   |   Transfer from Sheki to Baku (B)

• After breakfast, Check-out & Transfer from Sheki to Baku, Check-in at Baku Hotel & Overnight Stay.

📅   Day 4   |   Baku City Tour (B/-/-)

• After breakfast, Proceed to Baku Old City – Historical monument of Baku. The Old City of Baku is protected with the Preservation walls remained since the 6th century. The guide introduces the Old City’s history to the guests while they are travelling. The historical places, such as Karvansaray, Maiden Tower, old labyrinth streets, mosques, small souvenir shops are showed by the guide during the Old city tour.

• Here the guests visit Azerbaijani historical museum Shirvanshah Palace which is among the monuments within the Old City. In the mentioned museum tourists will enter the throne room, shah’s burial place, mosque, tomb, and shah’s bathroom.

• They will explore 19-20th century’s architecture: Nizami Street, Fountain Square, Nizami Ganjavi monument, Rasul-Zade Street. Return to the hotel & Overnight stay at Baku.

📅   Day 5   |   Gobustan-Absheron Tour (B/-)

• After breakfast at the hotel, Starting Gobustan tour - There are about 800 mud volcanoes and 350 of them are located in Azerbaijan. Moreover, some of these volcanoes are quiet. During your trip to Azerbaijan, we will take you to the place of Gobustan, where one of the most famous fields of mud volcanoes is located.

• Tour of the Museum (closed exposition) and the reserve (open part). The petroglyphs Museum (Museum under the open sky). Gobustan origins from the words Gobu and Stan. Thus, Gobustan is a country of ravines. Ravines there are really a lot and the rivers were, but dried up, and the valley of mud volcanoes is, but the main thing is not this. The main thing in Gobustan is its famous petroglyphs. Therefore, scientists call images on a stone and consider it rudiments of writing. The age of these images is different-from the 12th century BC to the Middle Ages. In this area from time immemorial lived people who have left us traces of their ancient and powerful culture. There are traces of such antiquity on the globe in many places, but Gobustan is one of the unique places in both the number and preservation of such images, and in the coverage of such a large historical period. People settled in these places for thousands of years– one generation after another, and each left traces of their stay. head to the ancient Zoroastrian temple Ateshgah which is considered as an authentic Azerbaijani exotic site to visit. It is located about 30 km away from the centre of Baku in the suburb of Surakhany settlement. At about 12.00 pm, the guests will visit the Mystical Burning Mountain (Yanardag), which has burned itself with natural gas for several thousands of years. Ateshgah and Yanardag tour combines exploration of two ancient and historical places, which have been tied by culture and history for centuries. Return back to Baku & Overnight stay.

📅   Day 6   |   Departure – Baku Airport (B)

• After breakfast at the hotel, the tourists should have their baggage packed and do check out from the hotel. At the agreed time and according to the guests’ departure details, the driver will be waiting for them at the hotel for the transfer to the airport.

                            !! Have a nice trip back home and thanks for choosing Dealcation!!