Azerbaijan · UNESCO Heritage Sites

8-Hour Gobustan Heritage Tour from Baku with Mud Volcanos

8 Hours Round trip from 40°0552.0N 49°2258. Easy pace

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The journey

Trip highlights

01 Explore the Gobustan Rock Art Cultural Landscape with more than 6,000 ancient engravings
02 Take photos among the rock formations of the Gobustan open-air museum
03 Experience the famous Mud Volcanos and try the mineral-rich Azerbaijani mud on your skin
04 Visit the historic Fire Temple and learn how its eternal flame was revived
05 See the striking Heydar Aliyev Center with its auditorium, gallery hall, museum, and park

Visit the Gobustan Stones, Gobustan Museum, Mud Volcanos, Burning Mountain, Fire Temple, and Heydar Aliyev Center on this 8-hour tour from Baku. Explore the Gobustan Rock Art Cultural Landscape, which covers three areas of a plateau of rocky boulders rising out of the semi-desert of central Azerbaijan, with an outstanding collection of more than 6,000 rock engravings bearing testimony to 40,000 years of rock art.

Azerbaijani mud is considered very healthy for the skin, and you can apply it to your skin.

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At a glance

What this trip includes

Duration 8 Hours

Tour type Shared

Activity level Easy

Accommodation Not included

Transport Included

Wheelchair access Not applicable

Cities Baku, Gobustan National Park

Languages Arabic, English, Russian

Day by day

The itinerary

Day 01

Gobustan Heritage and Fire Temples from Baku

Pick up at 9 AM from your hotel in Baku by your Azerbaijani tour guide. After that, head to Gobustan. At the Gobustan Stones, take awesome pictures in the open-air museum.
Then, continue to the Gobustan Museum.
Explore the Mud Volcanos. Azerbaijani mud is considered very healthy for the skin, and you can apply it to your skin.
After this, go to the Burning Mountain.
Next, visit the Fire Temple, a historical place. 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 petroleum and gas exploitation in the area, but it is now lit by gas piped from the nearby city.
Continue to the Heydar Aliyev Center. The center houses a conference hall (auditorium), a gallery hall, a museum, and a park. After finishing the tour, leave and arrive back at 6 PM.