Gobustan,Mud Volcanoes & Absheron Peninsula full day tour


7 hours
Pick-up offered
Free cancellation
1 - 7
Mobile ticket

Overview

Gobustan, Mud Volcanoes and Absheron tour is a one day trip and covers the major museums and historical places of the city. Below the places you will visit during the tour:
- Gobustan national museum & Gobustan Art Rock
- Mud volcanoes
- Fire temple
- Burning mountain
- The world's first industrially drilled oil Well
- Bibiheybat mosque
- Heydar Aliyev cultural center

Inclusions

  • Comfortable car with English speaking driver
  • Hotel pickup and drop-off

What to expect

Itinerary
This is a typical itinerary for this product

Stop At: Mud Volcanoes, Dasgil Hill, Qobustan 3700 Azerbaijan

Whenever we reach to Gobustan area, we will change our transport ( because, the road leading to Mud Volcanoes is in bad condition, so only specific cars specially russian cars can get there) and lead to the Mud Volcanoes.

Home to nearly a third of the world's mud volcano's, Azerbaijan features a messy, bubbling, and sometimes explosive landscape. Mud volcanoes are closely associated with hydrocarbon and petrochemical stores underground, hence the gas trying to escape to the surface. A few of these gas leaks are constantly on fire, shooting small perpetual flames into the air and some believe that these perpetual flames are strongly connected to the appearance of the Zoroastrian religion in Azerbaijan some 2, 000 years ago.

Every 20 years or so, one of these mud/gas volcanoes will ignite deep below the surface and create a massive explosion. While generally not dangerous to people, as they are far outside of most city centers, it is believed that six shepherds and over 2, 000 sheep were killed by a mud volcano in Bozdagh, Azerbaijan.

Duration: 30 minutes

Stop At: Gobustan Rock Art, Gobustan Settlement - Garadagh District 60 km South of Baku, Qobustan 1080 Azerbaijan

After coming back from Mud Volcanoes we get back to our car and go first to the Gobustan museum, and after spending some time there we lead to the Gobustan Rock Art (open air museum).

Gobustan State Reserve located west of the settlement of Gobustan, about 40 miles southwest of the centre of Baku was established in 1966 when the region was declared as a national historical landmark of Azerbaijan in an attempt to preserve the ancient carvings, mud volcanoes and gas-stones in the region.

Gobustan State Reserve is very rich in archeological monuments, the reserve has more than 6, 000 rock carvings, which depict primitive people, animals, battle-pieces, ritual dances, bullfights, boats with armed oarsmen, warriors with lances in their hands, camel caravans, pictures of sun and stars, on the average dating back to 5, 000-20, 000 years.

Duration: 1 hour 30 minutes

Stop At: Bibi-Heybat Mosque, Baku Azerbaijan

On the way back from Gobustan area we will pass through the Bibi-Heybat Mosque, where we will stop for a while

Duration: 15 minutes

Stop At: Yanardag State Historical, Cultural and Natural Reserve, The village of Mammadli Absheron Peninsula, Baku 0125 Azerbaijan

Going on our tour next destination will be Yanardag (Burning Mountain), where our guest will discover the natural fire burning steadily.

Yanar Dag (Azerbaijani: Yanar Dağ, meaning "burning mountain") is a natural gas fire which blazes continuously on a hillside on the Absheron Peninsula on the Caspian Sea near Baku. Unlike mud volcanoes, the Yanar Dag flame burns fairly steadily, as it involves a steady seep of gas from the subsurface. It is claimed that the Yanar Dag flame was only noted when accidentally lit by a shepherd in the 1950s.

Duration: 20 minutes

Stop At: Ateshgah - Fire Temple, Сураханский район, Baku Azerbaijan

The Baku Ateshgah (from Persian: آتشگاه‎, Atashgāh, Azerbaijani: Atəşgah), often called the "Fire Temple of Baku" is a castle-like religious temple in Surakhani town, a suburb in Baku, Azerbaijan.

Based on Persian inscriptions, the temple was used as a Hindu, Sikh, and Zoroastrian place of worship. "Atash" (آتش) is the Persian word for fire. The pentagonal complex, which has a courtyard surrounded by cells for monks and a tetrapillar-altar in the middle, was built during the 17th and 18th centuries. It was abandoned in the late 19th century, probably due to the dwindling of the Indian population in the area. The natural eternal flame went out in 1969, after nearly a century of exploitation of petroleum and gas in the area, but is now lit by gas piped from the nearby city.

Duration: 50 minutes

Additional information

  • Not wheelchair accessible
  • Most travelers can participate
  • This is a private tour/activity. Only your group will participate
  • Confirmation will be received at time of booking

Ticket delivery

You can present either a paper or an electronic voucher for this activity.

Cancellation

For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours in advance of the start time of the experience.
JasonD4205
May 2019

We did a half day-tour with Azer to Qobustan Mud Volcano. There were 4 of us, Azer picked us up from our accommodation on-time. He had a lovely new and comfortable car (Kia Optima I believe). He was a very safe driver and speaks exceptional English. Azer provided fantastic information throughout ...

Shibac701
November 2019

We booked this tour through Best Baku through email communication before our arrival. We chose to do a private tour for 2 at 90 usd for the day. This did not include lunch & ticket costs to the attractions. But the private tour worked out really well. We got picked up at 9 am by Azar, our guide c...

Traveler_3569M
October 2019

This was a solo trip that I wanted to pack as much in as possible. I had a fantastic few days with Azar, felt like a friend was showing the best parts of his home and he was able to accommodate my schedule request perfectly. Last day around the city I had Josh as my guide. Both were polite with i...

RyanDsilva1314
September 2019

We were there for 4 days & 3 nights in Baku, we did 2 tours with best baku tours & Azhar was our tour guide, Azhar is really knowledgeable of the places wherever we visited, he guided us properly, very informative, very friendly & helpful. I highly recommend Best Baku Tours. It's the best & the f...

jerith18
August 2019

We just had 2 days tour and it was amazing. Our trip was short but because we have a very kind and informative tour guide, we visited almost all the main tourist attractions in Baku. I highly recommended BEST BAKU TOURS. Thanks a lot Azar!

bdieze
August 2019

We had a great day out, our guide seemed to enjoy taking us around and was very knowledgeable (we really enjoy the place he took us for lunch). This is the tour we have enjoyed the most while in Baku and if we come back we will definitely do another tour with them. Thank you

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