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Fire, mountain villages, forest lakes and Silk Road towns in fifteen days.
Fifteen days across the whole country: Baku and the Fire Mountain, Quba and the high village of Khinalig, Shahdag, the lakes and waterfalls of Gabala, Sheki’s palace and craftsmen, the coppersmiths of Lahij and the rock carvings of Gobustan, then back to Baku for its modern landmarks.
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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 and a stone village, then up into the mountains.
After breakfast you drive north out of Baku to Quba, a town of apple orchards. You visit the Red Village across the river, a historic Jewish settlement of stone houses, and then the road climbs to Shahdag Mountain Resort in the Greater Caucasus, where you reach your hotel in the afternoon.
Nota: Entrance fees, cable cars, rides and games are not included. The schedule can change with traffic, weather and road conditions.
Hospitium: Shahdag
A village at 2,300 metres, with its own language and stone houses.
A day into the high mountains. You drive to Khinalig, one of the highest inhabited villages in Europe, at about 2,300 metres, where the stone houses cling to the slope and the people speak a language found nowhere else.
The road is long and steep, and the view of the snow peaks is the reward. You return to your hotel in Shahdag in the evening.
Nota: The mountain road can close in snow or heavy rain, and the day is then changed. Entrance fees are not included.
Hospitium: Shahdag
Across the country, with a stop at the Juma Mosque.
After breakfast you drive south and west across the foothills. The first stop is Shamakhi and its Juma Mosque, one of the oldest and largest mosques in the Caucasus. The road then continues into the green hills of Gabala, where 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 forest lake and a valley of seven waterfalls.
A nature day around Gabala. You visit Nohur Lake, a calm lake in the forest below the mountains, and walk up the Seven Beauties Waterfall, a series of seven falls in a wooded valley.
The afternoon is for the old streets of Gabala and its cafés.
Nota: Entrance fees, cable cars, rides and games are not included. The schedule can change with traffic, weather and road conditions.
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
An ancient church in the hills and the workshops of the old town.
A second day in Sheki. You drive up to the village of Kish to see its old church, one of the oldest in the region, set among the hills.
In the afternoon you walk the old town and visit the workshops where craftsmen make stained-glass windows and the sweets the town is known for.
Nota: Entrance fees are not included.
Hospitium: Sheki
A mountain village of coppersmiths on the long road to the capital.
After breakfast you leave Sheki and drive east, with a stop at Lahij, an old mountain village whose cobbled lanes are lined with copper workshops. You can watch the craftsmen at work and buy a hand-made piece.
The road continues to Baku, where 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: Baku
A UNESCO site of ancient carvings and bubbling mud.
A day south of Baku in Gobustan. The Gobustan National Park holds thousands of rock carvings of hunters, boats and animals, some of them many thousands of years old, a UNESCO World Heritage site.
Then you ride across the desert hills to the mud volcanoes, small cones where cold mud bubbles up from deep in the earth.
Nota: Entrance fees and the 4x4 ride to the mud volcanoes are not included.
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
A guide and car for the day, as you wish.
A day to shop for gifts, with your driver at your disposal: Ganclik Mall, Fountains Square and Nizami Street are the main shopping areas of the city.
In the evening the Flame Towers light up in moving colours, a last view of Baku from the boulevard.
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 · 3 noctes
Genus hospitii: Double room
Imagines huius deversorii mox addentur cum ius utendi habebitur.
Shahdag Mountain Resort · 2 noctes
Genus hospitii: Double room
Imagines huius deversorii mox addentur cum ius utendi habebitur.
Gabala, by Nohur Lake · 3 noctes
Genus hospitii: Double room
Imagines huius deversorii mox addentur cum ius utendi habebitur.
Sheki · 2 noctes
Genus hospitii: Double room
Imagines huius deversorii mox addentur cum ius utendi habebitur.
Nasimi, central Baku · 4 noctes
Genus hospitii: Double room
Imagines huius deversorii mox addentur cum ius utendi habebitur.
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