Baku - Absheron Tour

Day 1.
• Arrival in Baku
• Check in at the hotel (from 14:00)
• Free day
• Overnight in the hotel

Day 2.
• Breakfast in the hotel
• City tour (4 hours) in Baku with a visit and tour of the monumental, historical and architectural monuments of the city, including:
- Motorways and the town square; Baku attractions and Heydar Aliyev Center
- Panorama of the city and the Baku Bay from the Upland Park
- Visit the medieval part of the city "Icheri Sheher" / "Inner City": ramparts, the main gate of the city, "Gosha Gala gapi" Shirvanshahs Palace, Tower Temple "Maiden Tower", medieval baths, caravanserais, handicraft workshops, carpet and antique shops, the Museum of Azerbaijani carpet and folk-applied art.
• Lunch
• A walk along the Seaside Boulevard

Boat trip on the Baku Bay

Walking and shopping in the central part of Baku / area of “Fountainssquare”
• Dinner
• Free time: Night in the hotel

Day 3
• Breakfast in the hotel
• Absheron Peninsula:

 Auto – excursion trip to the natural, historical and architectural moments of Absheron peninsula ( near Baku in a radius of 50 km)

Including a visit and inspection:
- a place of natural combustible gases entering the mountain Yanardagh in Mammadli village
- old oil fields in land and medieval tower temple-castle in Ramana settlement 
- 2-minaret mosque in the village Amirjan
- temple of fire-worshipers “Ateshgah” in Surakhan; settlement
- tower temples in the villages of Shagan and Mardakan
• Lunch
• Gobustan

Drive to the historical and artistic reserve under the open sky "Gobustan" for the purpose of inspection of rock art sites of ancient human Neolithic period, as well as the introduction of other excursion information:
- old oil fields and the ancient temple in the area of Bibi Kheybat;
- review of offshore oil platforms in the Caspian Sea;
- rock paintings, inscriptions and symbols in the mountain Bekdash;
- visiting pagan sanctuary "Pir Gara Atly" at Mount Kichik Dash;
- visiting mud volcanism on Mount Dashgil / hill, griffin, salsas
• Dinner
• Free time: Night in the hotel

Day 4
• Breakfast in the hotel
• Free time
• Check-out from the hotel and Departure (12:00 leave from rooms)