Fasciculi itinerum
Flames and towers, Silk Road palaces and mountain lakes.
Ten days across Azerbaijan: Baku with the Fire Mountain, the Old City and a day in Quba and Shahdag, then Gabala’s lakes, waterfalls and Tufandag, Sheki’s Khan’s Palace and caravanserai, and Gobustan’s rock carvings on the way back.
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Your driver waits at the airport.
Arrive at Baku’s Heydar Aliyev Airport, where your driver meets you and takes you to your hotel to receive your room.
The rest of the day is yours. An evening walk along the Caspian boulevard is the easiest way to meet the city.
Hospitium: Baku
From Highland Park to the Old City, the boulevard and Nizami Street.
A full day in the capital. You start at Highland Park, the highest viewpoint in Baku, with the Flame Towers and the whole bay below you. Then you walk through Icheri Sheher, the walled Old City, with its narrow lanes, the Maiden Tower and the Palace of the Shirvanshahs.
The afternoon follows the Baku Boulevard along the Caspian shore, with Little Venice and its canals, and finishes on Nizami Street, the pedestrian street of cafés and shops, which is lively until late.
The best view of the Flame Towers and the bay.
Walled lanes, the Maiden Tower and the Shirvanshahs’ Palace.
A seafront walk, canals and a pedestrian street.
Nota: Entrance fees and the Baku Eye wheel ride are not included.
Hospitium: Baku
A hillside that burns, an old fire temple and the villages of the peninsula.
A day on the peninsula east of Baku, the land of fire. You start at Yanar Dag, the Fire Mountain, a hillside where natural gas has burned for decades, and then visit Ateshgah, the old fire temple where pilgrims once came to worship the flame.
The afternoon is free for the shoreline villages of the peninsula and a seafood dinner by the Caspian Sea.
Nota: Entrance fees, cable cars, rides and games are not included. The schedule can change with traffic, weather and road conditions.
Hospitium: Baku
Apple orchards, the Red Village and a ski resort in the mountains.
A day trip north of Baku. You drive to Quba, a town of apple orchards, and visit the Red Village across the river, a historic Jewish settlement of stone houses. Then the road climbs to Shahdag Mountain Resort, in the Greater Caucasus, with fresh mountain air and wide views.
You return to Baku in the evening.
Nota: The Shahdag cable car and entrance fees are not included.
Hospitium: Baku
The Juma Mosque, a forest lake and seven waterfalls on the way to Gabala.
After breakfast you leave Baku for Gabala. The first stop is Shamakhi and its Juma Mosque, one of the oldest and largest mosques in the Caucasus. The road continues into the green hills of Gabala.
Here you visit Nohur Lake, a calm lake in the forest, and the Seven Beauties Waterfall, a series of seven falls in a wooded valley. You reach your hotel in the evening.
Nota: This is a long driving day. Stops are shortened if the road or the weather needs it.
Hospitium: Gabala
A mountain resort, a shooting range and a fun park.
A day of mountains and fun in Gabala. You visit Tufandag Mountain Resort, with its wide mountain views, then the shooting range, and finally Gabaland, the amusement park of the town.
The cable car, the shooting and the rides are paid extras you choose on the day.
Nota: The cable car, the shooting range, the rides and the games are not included.
Hospitium: Gabala
A palace of stained-glass windows and a trade inn of the Silk Road.
After breakfast you drive west to Sheki, an old town in the foothills. You visit the Khan’s Summer Palace, small and beautifully decorated, with windows made of coloured glass held in wooden lattices (shebeke) without a nail or glue.
Then you see the caravanserai, a Silk Road inn with a stone courtyard, and taste Sheki’s famous halva before you reach your hotel.
Nota: Entrance fees are not included.
Hospitium: Sheki
Back to the capital, with a stop at the rock carvings.
After breakfast you drive back east to Baku across the country. Near the end of the road you stop at Gobustan National Park, where thousands of rock carvings of hunters, boats and animals, some many thousands of years old, are a UNESCO World Heritage site.
You reach Baku in the evening.
Nota: This is a long driving day. Stops are shortened if the road or the weather needs it.
Hospitium: Baku
Modern Baku’s landmarks, then a shopping evening.
A day for modern Baku. You visit the Heydar Aliyev Center, a building of flowing white curves, and the Carpet Museum, shaped like a rolled carpet, with the story of Azerbaijani weaving.
The afternoon and evening are for Ganclik Mall, the largest shopping centre in the city, for gifts and dinner.
Nota: Entrance fees are not included.
Hospitium: Baku
Your driver takes you to the airport.
After breakfast your driver takes you to Baku Airport for your flight home. We look forward to welcoming you again.
Finis itineris
Nasimi, central Baku · 4 noctes
Genus hospitii: Double room
Imagines huius deversorii mox addentur cum ius utendi habebitur.
Gabala, by Nohur Lake · 2 noctes
Genus hospitii: Double room
Imagines huius deversorii mox addentur cum ius utendi habebitur.
Sheki · 1 nox
Genus hospitii: Double room
Imagines huius deversorii mox addentur cum ius utendi habebitur.
Nasimi, central Baku · 2 noctes
Genus hospitii: Double room
Imagines huius deversorii mox addentur cum ius utendi habebitur.
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