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(Lunch & Dinner)
Breakfast at the Hotel. Arrive in Baku.Transfer to Hotel.
Lunch at an Indian Restaurant.
Visit Marty’s Lane and Highland Park. Highland Park, located near Martyrs’ Lane, connects the city center by funicular. It offers a beautiful panoramic view of the city and Baku Bay. Baku’s Highland Park has undergone significant reconstruction and has a history dating back to the 1940s. As the pictures below show, the park provides a terrific view of the seashore, and the funicular has also been updated.
Visit Flame Towers, the tallest skyscraper in Baku. Take a walk through Baku Boulevard. Baku Boulevard, also known as the Seaside National Park, is a favorite promenade for many Baku residents and visitors. Its history dates back more than 100 years when Baku’s oil barons built their mansions along the Caspian shore, gradually developing the seafront. Stretching for a full three kilometers, Baku Boulevard offers the city’s best views of the expansive and majestic Caspian Sea. It has been A favorite destination for a leisurely seaside stroll in Baku for over a century, the boulevard is also lined with grand mansions from years past.
Visit the Ferris wheel and have dinner at an Indian Restaurant.
(B/L/D)
Breakfast at the Hotel.
Baku City Tour: Enjoy a walking sightseeing tour of the ‘Inner City,’ where you’ll visit souvenir shops, carpet shops, antique shops, and workshops of local handicrafts.
Maiden Tower (XII century): The symbol of Baku, the Maiden Tower, was included in the list of World Cultural Heritage by UNESCO in December 2000. This tower, situated on the coast of the Caspian Sea, has preserved its magnificence to this day. It was called the ‘Maiden Tower’ due to its inaccessibility. This cylindrical tower is built on the coastal rock, and from the sea side, it has an oblong prop (counterfort) adjoining it. The tower stands 31 meters high from the north and 28 meters from the south. It’s worth noting that there are various interpretations of the number ’28.’ Some believe it represents the fact that the Caspian Sea is 28 meters below the world sea level, while others point to the 28 blocks in Icherisheher (Inner City) and the 28 semicircular towers connecting the fortress walls. The tower has a diameter of 16 meters on the ground floor, and the wall thickness is 5 meters on the ground floor. The tower consists of 8 floors.
Juma Mosque: The Juma Mosque in Icheri-sheher has been in operation since the 12th century. It was built in 1899 with the funds of Baku philanthropist Khadja Shikhali Dadashev. In 1888, theRussian academician A. Pavlinov took measurements of the Juma Mosque. The mosque was constructed on the site of a former temple of fire worshipers. Only four uncoated arches remain from the old building, which were allegedly part of the temple. According to many modern archaeologists, this site once served as a pagan sacred center for fire worshipers.
Lunch at an Indian restaurant.
Palace of Shirvanshah: The most remarkable example of medieval palace structures in Azerbaijan is the Shirvanshah Palace complex, dating back to the mid-15th century. This complex now serves as a state museum and is open to thousands of tourists. The two-story palace building consists of about fifty different rooms of various sizes and shapes connected by three narrow spiral staircases. Of the 25 rooms on the second floor, only 16 have survived. The ground floor of the building (27 rooms), used by servants and for the storage of domestic supplies, has been preserved exactly as it was built in the 15th century.
Nizami Street: Azerbaijan has been a popular choice for expatriates ever since large oil reserves were found in the country. The influx of Westerners resulted in the availability of branded products, which has increased dramatically since independence. Prices of these products are not very expensive, but one needs to be careful against fake brands. For any foreign tourist, the country’s arts and crafts section holds the maximum attraction. In various cities of Azerbaijan, there are streets that sell handicrafts, silk, and other artifacts local to the city. Nizami Street Azerbaijani: Nizami kü si is a large pedestrian and shopping street in downtown Baku, Azerbaijan, named after the famed classical poet Nizami Ganjavi.
Dinner at an Indian Restaurant.
(B/L/D) Breakfast at the Hotel.
The Ancient Zoroastrian Temple Atashgah – Fire Temple
The Temple of Eternal Fire – Atashgah – is an authentic Azerbaijani exotic. It is well-known practically all over the world. It is located 30 km from the center of Baku in the suburb of Surakhany. This territory is known for such a unique natural phenomenon as burning natural gas outlets (underground gas coming onto the surface contacts oxygen and lights up). The temple, in its present state, was constructed in the 17th-18th centuries. It was built by the Baku-based Hindu community related to Sikhs. However, the history of the Temple is even longer. From times immemorial, this was the holy place of Zoroastrians – fire worshippers (approximately the beginning of our era). They attributed mystical significance to the inextinguishable fire and came there to worship the relic.
Yanar Dag – a Reminder of the Ancient Cult of Fire Azerbaijan is historically called the Land of Fire, and it is not just a witty remark. At the whim of nature, the land of this Caucasian country, located on the picturesque coast of the Caspian Sea, is replete with underground sources of oil and gas that long to ignite. Natural gas in the Azerbaijani bowels is so abundant that it continuously surfaces. One of the most famous and popular tourist places of the eternal flame in Azerbaijan is the mountain of Yanar Dag. Actually, it is more of a hill than a mountain, with natural gas burning on its slope from ancient times. Meter-long tongues of fire lick the stratified earth, approximately 10 meters in width, searing those who approach too closely. People gather on benches to watch the blazing hill in the evening when its sight is most impressive.
Heydar Aliyev Centre The Heydar Aliyev Centre is a 619,000-square-foot building complex in Baku, Azerbaijan, designed by Iraqi-British architect Zaha Hadid. It is noted for its distinctive architecture and flowing, curved style that avoids sharp angles. The center is named for Heydar Aliyev, the leader of Soviet-era Azerbaijan from 1969 to 1982 and president of Azerbaijan from October 1993 to October 2003.
The Centre houses a conference hall (auditorium), a gallery hall, and a museum. The project plays an integral role in the intellectual life of the city. Located close to the city center, the site is pivotal in the redevelopment of Baku. The Heydar Aliyev Centre represents a fluid form that emerges through the folding of the landscape’s natural topography and the wrapping of individual functions of the Centre. All functions of the Centre, along with entrances, are represented by folds in a single continuous surface. An internationally recognized architectural work, the building of the Heydar Aliyev Centre has become a signature landmark of modern Baku due to its innovative and cutting-edge design. The building was nominated for awards in 2013 at both the World Architecture Festival and the biennial Inside Festival.
(B/L/D) Breakfast at the Hotel.
Excursion to Gobustan Gobustan occupies the southeastern spur of the Great Caucasian Range and is situated 60 km south of Baku. It is a monticulate semi-desert area dissected by numerous gullies and ravines, and Gobustan, in translation, means ravine land. Caves and rock outcroppings surround the region. Settled since the Stone Age, the area is one of the major and most ancient museums of rock engravings (petroglyphs) in the world. It was here in Gobustan, in the area of this fantastic destruction of mountains Beyukdash, Kichikdadh, Jingirdag, Shongardag, and Shikhgaya, in the ‘sea of rocks,’ the witnesses to the past of Azerbaijan people of the Stone Age and subsequent periods are concentrated: these are rock carvings, settlements, tombstones, etc. Among them, ancient rock carvings are of particular prominence. Ancient people used to cover the stone blocks near the caves and the walls of the caves with images of human beings, animals, and various signs which had been carved with stone implements and, sometimes, with metal tools. These prehistoric art monuments reflect the culture, economy, world outlook, customs, and traditions of ancient Azerbaijan people.
Excursion to Mud Volcanoes Azerbaijan and its Caspian coastline are home to nearly 400 mud volcanoes, more than half the total throughout the world. In 2001, one mud volcano 15 kilometers from Baku made world headlines when it suddenly started ejecting flames 15 meters high. Many geologists as well as locals and international mud tourists trek to such places as the Firuz Crater, Gobustan, Salyan, and end up happily covered in mud, which is thought to have medicinal qualities. On average, every twenty years or so, a mud volcano may explode with great force in Gobustan, shooting flames hundreds of meters into the sky and depositing tons of mud on the surrounding area.
Bibi-Heybat Mosque The Bibi-Heybat Mosque (Azerbaijani: Bibiheyb tm scidi is a historical mosque in Baku, Azerbaijan. The existing structure, built in the 1990s, is a recreation of the mosque with the same name built in the 13th century by Shirvanshah Farrukhzad II Ibn Ahsitan II, which was completely destroyed by the Bolsheviks in 1936. The Bibi-Heybat Mosque includes the tomb of Ukeyma Khanum (a descendant of Muhammad), and today is the spiritual center for the Muslims of the region and one of the major monuments of Islamic architecture in Azerbaijan. It is locally known as the mosque of Fatima, which is what Alexandre Dumas called it when he described the mosque during his visit in the 1840s. The mosque was built over the tomb of the daughter of the seventh Shiite Imam – Musa al-Kazim, who fled to Baku from persecution by the caliphs. On the tomb, there is carved on a stone inscription indicating that Ukeyma Khanum belongs to the sacred family: Here was buried Ukeyma Khanum, a descendant of the Prophet Muhammad, the granddaughter of the sixth Imam Ja’far al-Sadiq, the daughter of the Seventh Imam Musei Kazym, sister of the eighth Imam Riza.
Breakfast at the Hotel.
Transfer to Airport for the Departure flight.
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