Baku Tour 3 Nights (4 Days)

Day 1 Arrival to Baku

1. 1

   1 hour Admission ticket not included

   Tour starts from meeting in Baku International Airport named of national leader Heydar Aliyev by local guide or company representative. Having collected all the luggage in the car, we go to place of stay. Passing along one of the main avenues, you can see a modern city with many illuminations and beautiful buildings. We arrive at the hotel where friendly staff will help for check-in to the room. Time to relax.

Day 2 Exploring ancient Baku sights

1. 1

   Highland Park

   1 hour

   After excursion in Gobustan we will start to discover Baku city. Sightseeing tour of Baku with a visit and tour of the monumental, historical and architectural monuments of the city: you will see a panorama of the city of Baku Bay and the Upland Park.

2. 2

   Baku Old City

   1 hour Admission ticket included

   Then follows the visiting of the old city *Icheri sheher-the inner city*. Icheri sheher means the inner city. It was called the inner after the oil boom of the middle of the XIX century when the city stopped to hold in defense walls and left its limit. Several tens of the historical- architectural monuments at the same time the Shirvanshakhs Palace, the symbol of Baku city The Maiden Tower, the place of merchants rest Karavansaray are concentrated in the Icheri sheher, with the square of 22 hectares. Icheri sheher is the live organism which has its own infrastructure and inhabited files. The place where 1300 families are living. In a word it is an ancient city in the modern city.

3. 3

   Nizami Street

   1 hour Admission ticket included

   Just like in any metropolis, Baku has its own cultural center. This is fountain square, but on the buildings you will see the
   inscriptions of Nizami Ganjavi and Khagani streets.
   Numerous tourist restaurants, hotels, boutiques and everyday bustle of capital give this place its beauty.
   Here for the new year and other national holidays, a festival called "Cold Hands, Warm Hearts" is organized, where a
   huge number of people gather every day.

Day 3 Legacy of Zoroastrians and ancient people

1. 1

   Ateshgah - Fire Temple

   3 hours Admission ticket included

   Today after breakfast our guide will be waiting on reception in hotel. We will start our tour with excursion to Ateshgah.

2. 2

   Yanar Dag

   2 hours Admission ticket included

   You can see here nature phenomenon, incessant burning nature gas on the rock which named to the Yanar Dag reserve the burning rock. As the historians say, maybe this place gave the name *the fire country* to Azerbaijan.

3. 3

   Gobustan Rock Art

   2 hours Admission ticket included

   At a distance of 70 kilometers from the center of Baku, there is a real historical and archaeological treasure of
   the country, which is called Gobustan. The name "Gobustan" means "valley of ravines" or "land of ravines", since "Gobu"
   means a ravine, a depression, and "stan" is a land or a country. Gobustan National Park is world famous for its rock
   paintings. More than 40 thousand years BC, the ancient people, who were looking for shelter, stopped here, forming
   tribes. This is not strange, because it was on the Caspian coast in this valley of ravines that they had everything to ensure
   life. The first archaeological excavations in Gobustan began in 1939 by the Azerbaijani archaeologist Iskhak Jafarzade. He
   studied the territory with a total area of 537 hectares, where in the mountains of Gobustan called Boyukdash,
   Kichikdash, Jingyldag, Shikhgaya and Shongardag, he discovered 3500 rock paintings