Azerbaijan : BAKU-GABALA-BAKU

1 DAY – Airport Transfer

• Arrival in Baku, meeting at the Heydar Aliyev International Airport with a professional English – speaking guide

• Transfer to the hotel
• Information about the city and the country on the way to the hotel
• Check in and hotel accommodation
• Lunch in the restaurant
• Free time for leisure
• Dinner in the restaurant
• Overnight at the Hotel
  

2 DAY – Baku city tour 

• • Breakfast in the hotel

• Walk through the historical part of Old Baku – Icheri Sheher.

• If the city has an old city, then it has a heart. And it doesn’t matter how the metropolis is built and grows, this little piece of antiquity, like the roots of a tree, contains the entire crown of history. The historical complex includes many architectural monuments that have survived to our times: mosques, towers, churches, squares and other important buildings of the Shah’s reign.
  You will visit: 
• Museum and palace complex of the Shirvanshahs (XV century)
• Maiden’s Tower (XII century) . The Maiden’s Tower is the oldest symbol of the city of Baku. Most scientists believe that the tower was built in two stages: half in the V century, and the upper part in the XII century. But there are versions with dating that hint at the construction of the tower BC.
• Museum of miniature books. The world’s only museum of miniature books is located on one of the streets of the Old City (Icheri Sheher) in Baku. All books are smaller than a palm. The size of many publications is not more than 1 centimeter, and the “area” of the smallest book in the collection is 2×2 millimeters.
• Workshop of Ali Shamsi. Tourists, walking along Kichik Gala street, have to stop near a 90-year-old tree with three female faces, take a picture with a lion on the facade of the workshop and go through the open door to admire Ali Shamsi’s paintings, talk with the master and take a picture with him as a keepsake.
• Walk along the Seaside Boulevard and a boat trip (depending on weather conditions). Coming to Baku you should definitely visit the Seaside Boulevard. Visitors to the city will find many attractive places here: museums, attractions, parks, cafes, restaurants and much more. The boulevard itself is unusually beautiful and diverse. Its central part amazes with the richness of greenery and flowers, and the steps of the coastal strip end right at the sea water.
• Visit to the Carpet Museum. It is a sort of fairytale place that promises you a journey in time full of enjoyments. The first charm that grabs the attention is the shape of museum being a rolled carpet on the seaside park.

It’s a museum displaying carpet culture of Azerbaijan throughout the centuries. Here you can see mainly carpets, jewelries, traditional clothes and many other crafts, which represent Azerbaijani culture. As Azerbaijan has strong historical background, the carpet culture contains various schools and techniques with variety of motives and ornaments covering all parts of Azerbaijan in a different timeline. Walking through the museum allows traveling across the country as the exhibits in the museum are divided by regions. Apart from that, the structure of museum gives an opportunity of seeing carpets and other exhibits closely.

• Visit to Highland Park, from where a beautiful view of the city opens. Climbing the stairs higher and higher, you seem to climb the mountain. Your chest is filled with the cool and refreshing air of the highlands, your wings are spread, and you, like a bird, fly over this ancient, majestic city

Highland park, well known as ‘’Viewing Square’’, and earlier in Soviet era as ‘’Sergei Kirov park’’ is one of the most favorite places in Baku to have walk, rest, and enjoy the sea view. There you can take rest by breathing fresh air, viewing the city, drinking tea in the Highland Park Café, while listening to the classic lounge music. It’s the best place to relax, that is located right in the heart of Baku.

• Transfer to the hotel
• Overnight at the Hotel

3 DAY – Transfer to Gabala

• Breakfast in the hotel

Meeting at the hotel lobby with a friendly tour guide.

• Transfer to Gabala. 
• Azerbaijan’s top provincial holiday centre, Gabala is a string of flashy new hotels and a burgeoning ski resort spread up into the foothills of some glorious forested mountains.
• On the road you can visit the oldest mosque in the South Caucasus – Shamakhi Juma Mosque; Yeddi Gumbez Mosque, the Shirvan Shah’s family grave yard.
• Diri-Baba Mausoleum-Mosque – On the way from Baku to Shamakhi there is Maraza village known for its unique monument – two-storied mausoleum-mosque of the 15th century called Diri-Baba, located across from the old cemetery. For a long time, the local residents have kept the legend that their imperishable Saint Diri-Baba had been buried. 
• On the way, you will have a stop in Shamakhi Juma Mosque that is built-in 743 which is the most ancient known mosque in the Caucasus region. This oldest and largest mosque in Azerbaijan, Shamakhi Dzhuma, according to the legend was built in the 8th century when Shamakhi was chosen as residence by an Arabian caliph. The initial Arabian inscription on the portal of the mosque said that the mosque had constructed in 744. 
• Visiting “Nohurgol” (lake) – Lake Nohur in Gabala is one of the most popular tourist destinations in our country and you will tale a tour this lake during our Gabala tour. The lake is unusual, beautiful, surrounded by mountains and reed beds, and resembles a mirror in which wooded slopes look. The peculiarity of this reservoir is that although it is located high in the mountains, it is easily accessible, you can get here by car and even stay in a local recreation area.

Located 3km east of Gabala with its unique nature, the lake Nohur resembles a ring spur, located in a natural hole between the Gullurun, Goydag and Yumru mountains. At times of severe winter, the surface of Nohur Lake is completely frozen. In the winter of 1953, the ice cover on the lake surface was 40-50 cm. It was. The residents of the nearby village of Nohurqishlag using this force brought fire and building materials from the sky to the north of the lake, passing through the force of live power and technology. The fact that the surface of the dam was completely covered with ice was repeated in the winter of 2007-2008.

• Check in and hotel accommodation in the hotel in Sheki
• Free time for leisure
• Dinner in the restaurant
• Overnight at the Hotel

4 DAY – Gabala City Tour 

• Breakfast at the hotel
• Starting tour in Gabala City
• Visiting “Yeddi Gozel” (waterfall) – Seven Beauty Waterfall. iT is located in the outskirts of Gabala, near the village of Vandam. The waterfall consists of seven cascades, hence its name. If you want to admire this natural wonder, then you should go there very early. A waterfall is a place of pilgrimage for tourists from all over the world, the pedestrian route is usually crammed with cars and buses, and there is always a crowd of admiring spectators on a narrow wooden staircase. 
• Complex of Summer-Winter Recreation Zone “Tufandag”, including Tourist Complex “Tufandag”. Tufandag Winter-Summer Tourist Complex is located 4 kilometers far from Gabala city. The resort allows visitors to enjoy different extreme sports and tourism activities in the harmony with nature. Tufandag complex provides skiing in winter, going up to the mountains by cable cars in summer, mountain climbing by ATV quad bikes and other types of entertainment.
• Use Rope Line and other activities (Travel of 4 km by ATV cars (of 15-20 minutes), Off-road vehicles, Segway tours, Paragliding)
• Gabala Shooting Club. Gabala Shooting Club is part of the Gabala Sport Club, a world-class facility that prepares the athletes for the national teams of Azerbaijan in shooting, boxing, karate, taekwondo, soccer, and judo. 

Gabala Shooting Club, a favorite place for active leisure fans, is an ideal place to hold large-scale sports competitions. The Grand Prix of the International Shooting named after Heydar Aliyev has been held here in 2014 and 2016 years. All the necessary conditions have been provided for the convenience of both guests and athletes at the complex. Cottages have been built here for guests who want to spend the night at the complex.

FACILITIES AVAILABLE AT CLUB’S AREA

• 5 combined shooting ranges
• 8 sporting ranges
• 3 indoor and outdoor rifle/pistol halls
• Archery shooting pitch
• Flag square
• Shooting School
• Restrooms
• Greenness for rest of sportsmen and visitors
• Strikeball/Paintball
• 2 office blocks
• Medical point
• Children playground
• Restaurant and lounge
• Photo studio
• Sport-hunting appliances shop
• Parking lot
• Lunch in the restaurant
• Leisure time

• Dinner in the restaurant
• Overnight at the hotel

5 DAY – Transfer to Baku 

• Breakfast in the hotel
• Meeting at the hotel lobby with a friendly tour guide.
• Check out from the hotel in Sheki 
• Transfer to Baku 
• Check in and Baku hotel accommodation
• Lunch in the restaurant
• Free time for leisure
• Dinner in the restaurant
• Overnight at the Hotel

6 DAY – Absheron Tour

• • Breakfast at the hotel
• Starting Absheron tour
• Absheron tour covers three historical places. You will get an opportunity to become acquainted with old household and ethnographic traditions at Gala open-air museum. During the tour you will see Quadranqular Tower, one of the ancient Absheron towers located in Mardakan village.
• Moreover, you will also learn legends about Ateshgah Temple and Burning Mountain and the streams located nearby.
• Firstly, to Atesgah (Fire Temple) it is the first main settlement of worshippers in Azerbaijan since the second century. Ateshgah often called the “Fire Temple of Baku” is a castle-like religious temple in Surakhani town, a suburb of Baku, Azerbaijan. Based on Persian and Indian inscriptions, the temple was used as a Hindu, Sikh, and Zoroastrian place of worship. 
• Ateshgah – is temple of fire exotic of Azerbaijan. It is known almost all over the world. It is situated 30 km away from Baku, in Surakhani district. This territory is well known with it is phenomen – natural gas which comes from ground and and burns. The temple was built in XVII-XVIII centuries. It was built by a Hindu community in Baku, belonging to the Sikh caste. But the history of Ateshgah is more ancient. Long ago in this territory was located the sanctuary of Zoroastrians – fire worshipers (approximately the beginning of our era). 
• Lastly, we will visit: Yanar Dag (Azerbaijani: Yanar Dağ, meaning “burning mountain”) Fire mountain — is one of the most incredible natural sightseeings of Absheron peninsula. This is a mountain hill which is impossible to put out neither with rain nor with sand. And it is several thousand years that it burns. The frightening and simultaneously mesmerizing fiery landscape are actually explained very simply: From the upper layers of the soil natural gas is released, and when it comes into contact with oxygen, it turns into a flame.
• Trip to “Fire Mountain “- “Yanardag” – (25 km from Fire Temple) is a mountain on Absheron peninsula, 25 km from north of Baku. Literally, word “Yanardag” means “Blazing mountain”. Blazing bodies of flame dance on stones and floor. Yanar dag is a natural gas fire which blazes continuously on a hillside on the Absheron Peninsula on the Caspian Sea near Baku, the capital of Azerbaijan, which itself is known as the “land of fire.” 
• Lunch in restaurant
• Visiting Heydar Aliyev Center. Heydar Aliyev Center is considered as is one of the main attractions for tourists and has also become a symbol of modern Azerbaijan and modern Baku. The iconic Heydar Aliyev Centre was designed by Iraqi-British architect Zaha Hadid and is famous for its distinctive flowing, curved style that eschews sharp angles. As a brilliant piece of post-modern architecture, the building’s shape is an eternal cycle, connecting the past with the present. The building houses a conference hall, gallery halls, museums and more and seeks to unite people of diverse backgrounds in a place of shared ideas. The building won the London Design Museum award in 2014.
• Dinner in the restaurant
• Back to the Hotel

7 DAY – Farewell Day

• Breakfast in the hotel
• Departure from the hotel
• Airport transfer During the trip

INCLUDES:

• • 6 nights in a hotel with breakfast (2n Baku+2n Gabala+2n Baku)
  • Transportation service

• Guide service (English, Arabic, Russian, Turkish, German and etc.)
• Sightseeing tour in Baku
• Sightseeing tour in Absheron 
• Sightseeing tour in Shamakhi, Gabala, Sheki, Oguz

NOT INCLUDES:

• • Personal expenses such as tips, porterage, telephone calls, room’s service, etc
  • Flight
  • Travel Insurance

• E-Visa (30 USD per person)
• Any Meals other than specified in inclusions
• Surcharge will be applicable on particular events, festival, exhibition & fairs
• Any security deposit asked by the hotel during check in

TERMS AND CONDITIONS:

• Rates offered are valid until Sep. 30, 2021 only
• Rates are quoted in US Dollar
• Rates offered are non-commissionable
• Rooms subject to availability on the actual date of booking
• Check-in and Checkout Timing of the Hotel will be according to the timing of the respective Hotels.
• Check-in time is 1500 hours and Check-out time is 1200 hours.
• Early check-in and late check-out are subject to availability.
• Late check-out from 1200 hours to 1800 hours will be charged 50% of the Best Available Rate of the day.

• Package rates are subject to change without prior notice
• The package cannot be combined with any other offer
• The above package is not valid during national holidays, festivals, long weekends and New Year
• MWA reserves the right to change/modify or terminate the offer any time at its own discretion and without any prior notice