MEALS INCLUDED: BREAKFAST

Arrival at Haydar Aliyev Airport, Baku, Azerbaijan. The guide will receive the clients and take them to the hotel. Overnight at the hotel.

MEALS INCLUDED: BREAKFAST

After breakfast, an excursion to the center of Baku will be arranged. We pay a visit to the Martyrs' Cemetery, located on the highest slopes of the western end of the city, this is the best place to see the panorama of the city and the Bay of Baku. We travel to the historic center of the city of Baku, to its old town - 'Icheri Sheher'. We will see the highlights of Icheri Sheher, including the Palace of the Shirvanshah (the most striking example of medieval palace structures in Azerbaijan, dating back to the mid-15th century); we visit The Maiden's Tower from the outside. (the ancient eight-story fortress originally built as a fire lighthouse);

Later we will visit some sites on the Absheron Peninsula. Ateshgah, the Temple of the Fire Faithful located in the village of Surakhany. It was built on land where natural gas burned eternally by Zoroastrian believers who traveled from the province of Multan in India to worship. It is believed that these ancient fires gave Azerbaijan its name, which some researchers think means "Land of Fire". Then we will visit Yanar Dag (Mountain of Fire).  The word 'Yanar' in Azeri language means "to burn", and "Dagh" – "mountain". And this is really a fiery mountain, not metaphorically, but literally.

Our tour today ends with a visit to the old market of Yashil Bazar, we will be surprised by the colorful fruits, vegetables and especially its famous nuts, we taste Beluga Caviar. Later transfer to the hotel and rest.

MEALS INCLUDED: BREAKFAST

We will have breakfast and head to the Gobustan Reserve. This is an open-air museum full of Neolithic drawings on rock. Just 65 km south of Baku, Gobustan has about 6000 inscriptions dating back 12,000 years (with a 2000-year-old Latin graffiti). Well-preserved sketches show ancient populations traveling on reed boats; men hunt antelope and wild bulls, women dance. After that, we will also have the opportunity to visit a unique site in which 300 of the planet's 700 mud volcanoes are located in Gobustan, Azerbaijan. We return to the city.

Later we will visit the Carpet Museum. The first carpet museum in the world was opened in Baku, Azerbaijan. Then we will visit the Heydar Aliyev Center, a cultural center that includes the Auditorium (convention center), a museum, exhibition halls, administrative offices. The project center has been designed by the renowned British architect Zaha Hadid.

At the end return to the hotel and rest.

MEALS INCLUDED: BREAKFAST AND LUNCH

In the morning after breakfast we leave Baku for Sheki. On your way to Shamakhi, you will stop to visit the Mausoleum of Seven Domes and then visit Mesquita Djuma. We continue the route to Sheki.

In the afternoon we will arrive in Sheki. The tour will start from the summer palace of Khan, from the eighteenth century, with magnificent frescoes (one 24 m long) and exquisite stained glass (northern part of the city). Afterwards we will visit an old Caravansaray of Sheki that served as a hotel for merchants and we will see the confectioneries of Sheki, souvenir shops, workshops of the exquisite stained glass windows called Shabaka. Then we will see the Albanian church located in the village of Kish.

Arrival at the hotel where we will be staying.

MEALS INCLUDED: BREAKFAST AND LUNCH

Breakfast and then we continue to Mingachevir known as the city of lights.

Arrival and we will take a boat ride on the Kur River.

After the ride we continue the tour to the city of Ganja. Arrival in the second largest city of Azerbaijan: Ganja.

Afterwards we will visit the gates of Ganja, the old baths of the seventeenth century, Imamzada Mosque,  a nineteenth century Orthodox church near the university, the famous bottle house (a two-story building decorated with approximately 50,000 glass bottles). Afterwards transfer to the hotel and rest.

MEALS INCLUDED: BREAKFAST

In the morning, after breakfast we leave Ganja for Baku. On the way, we visit the Mausoleum of Nizami, one of the great poets of Azerbaijan who lived in the twelfth century. Then we continue the route to Baku. In the afternoon arrive in Baku and transfer to the hotel.

MEALS INCLUDED: BREAKFAST

At the scheduled time, transfer to the airport to take the flight to the next destination.