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Unforgettable Days In Azerbaijan
Visit: Baku - Tour To Gobustan - Old City Tour: Icheri Sheher (Old City) - Visiting The Museum Of Carpets & Applied Art
On arrival to Baku airport, you will be welcomed by your guide with a sign board and your name on it. Transfer to your hotel for check-in
Day at Leisure.
No Meals
Breakfast at the hotel. Tour to Gobustan - the national Museum in the open air, the rarest monument of the world culture included into the UNESCO heritage list, one of the first centers of human civilization. Ancient images on the walls and caves, rocks and boulders. Their story covers the Upper Paleolithic period until the Middle Ages. There are located remains of the great prehistoric cromlech (a circular composition of vertical stones, Azerbaijani analogue of Stonehenge). There are approximately 6000 drawings in Gobustan – petroglyphs describing people and animals. Visiting Gobustan State Historical-Artistic Museum equipped with innovative technology, touch screens provided with special multimedia programs, educational and entertaining games, interactive displays, 3D video and others. Visiting Mud Volcanos. Azerbaijan is the first in the world by the number of mud volcanoes. 350 out of 800 mud volcanoes in the world are located here! The mud volcanoes of Azerbaijan occupied the 5th place in the international contest of “Seven natural Wonders”, and on September 15, 2004 the largest mud volcano of the world located in Azerbaijan was registered in the Guinness Book of Records. Visiting Bibi Heybat Mosque. Built in the 13th century by Shirvanshah Farrukhzad II Ibn Ahsitan II, which was completely destroyed by the Bolsheviks in 1936 and restored later in the end of the 20th century. The Bibi Heybat Mosque includes the shrine of Ukeyma Khanum (a descendant of the Prophet Muhammad), and today is the spiritual center for the Muslims of the region and one of the major monuments of Islamic architecture in Azerbaijan. Baku panorama viewing with the Upland Park, and have the opportunity to look at Baku hotel complex «Flame Towers Baku» – a new business card of the city. The famous Flame Tower complex composed of 3 buildings. It is interesting that lighting of Flame Towers is considered to be the best in the world according to the survey of skyscrapercity.com. The surface of the Towers is fully covered with LED screens which reflect different visual characters in motion, easily visible from the far corners of the city.
Ovenight.
Breakfast at the hotel. Old City Tour: Icheri Sheher (Old City), known as a “fortress” – is a unique historical and architectural conservation area in the center of Baku. This is one of the ancient and densely populated places of the country and even of the Middle East. Archaeological excavations revealed burial vaults of the Bronze Age. The Maiden Tower (the 12th century) and the Shirvanshah palace (the 13th-16th century) are well-known historical monuments also locate in Old City. Besides them there are a lot of other unique monuments of Icheri Sheher: mosques, minarets, the remnants of caravanserais "Multani" and "Bukhara", ancient baths. There are a lot of souvenir shops where you can purchase national clothes, kerchiefs, scarves and caps, dishes and handmade carpets. Lunch time. Visiting Azerbaijan's historical ethnographic reserve - the ancient village Gala. In the village there are 243 monuments of architecture and archeology, from the prehistoric man of the Bronze Age (3000 BC.) to the surviving mosques, baths, premises belonging to the late Middle Ages. Covering an area of 156 hectares, the preserve contains burial mounds, crypts, dwelling houses as well as 4 storage pools, ruins of an ancient palace, 5 mosques and 3 bath-houses dating back to a period between 3rd Millennium BC and 20th century. Visiting an ancient Zoroastrian temple of flame – Ateshgah. The temple ages back to the 17-18th centuries and was built by Indian fire-worshipers’ community in Baku. Burning flame outlets at the surface where Yanardag (literary “burning mountain”) is located. The hill side is covered with flame and is better viewed at night times. Return to the hotel. Overnight.
Breakfast at the hotel. Visiting the Museum of Carpets & Applied Art, the impressive building located on the seafront. The Museum possesses one of the best collections of local and Persian carpets which will be presented to your attention. It has a brilliant display of woven and knotted Azerbaijani carpets, plus jewelry, embroidery, metalwork and carved wood. The oldest carpet is dated from XVII century. Here you can get acquainted with the types of carpets and weave your first little carpet as well. You`ll see the process of the carpets` birth starting from the basic coloring of the weaves with natural colors; creating of sumakh rugs, djedjims, hourjins using ancient technologies and peculiarities of carpet weaving in different regions of Azerbaijan; old carpets` refinishing, straightening and cleaning. It will be also possible to purchase carpets and related items. Free time: Walking down to Baku Boulevard, shopping center “Park Boulevard”, Nizami Street (old trading zone with lots of shops and boutiques), Fountain Square.
Overnight
Breakfast at the hotel.
Check out, transfer to the airport
