Vacation to Baku (Azerbaijan) 6N/7D

Over Night Stay at hotel

09:30 starting the tour. o Shahdag is very interesting to enjoy the winter activities.There are several natural beauties in this place as well. So you can go and spend your time effectively in the fresh air with nature. Shahdag Mountain Resort gives you a chance to hit the slopes in one of Azerbaijan’s most scenic locales. Other on-site activities are also available. o The Candy Cane Mountains are a psychedelic, red-pink and white striped area of exposed rock in the Northwest of Azerbaijan. Iron in the ground gives the mountains their deep red color and powdery shale makes up the white parts. Through a geological process, they’ve mixed underground, layer on top of layer, and when exposed to the elements, they eroded into a beautiful, completely bizarre sight. o Overnight in Baku.

Check out from hotel of Shahdag and transfer to Baku

o Transfer to hotel o Evening Panoramic Tour (All Photo Stops) which includes the below starts at 06:00 pm Baku Funicular: It connects a square on Neftchilar Avenue and Martyrs' Lane.It is the first and remains the only funicular system in the country. Length of railway track is 455 meters (1,493 ft) Ichari Sheher The historic quarter also known as “Castle” or simply “Old City” among the people is the ancient part of Baku, also historic-architectural reserve. Ichari Sheher being the ancient part of Baku was surrounded by well protected castle walls. Over 1300 families live in the territory of reserve having the area of 221m Highland Park: The highland park Baku is the highest point of the capital of Azerbaijan, from where a beautiful panorama of the city and the bay opens. People from Baku and tourists often come here to see Baku from a bird’s eye view, as well as just take a walk. Little Venice: Little Venice" in Baku Boulevard is a small town built in 1960. It was expanded up to 10,000 sq.meter Boats are provided for 4 people: one is designed for guide and the rest for passengers. Baku Ferris Wheel also known as the Baku Eye. The wheel is 60 metres (200 ft) tall and has 30 cabins, each holding eight people. It makes a complete turn in 30 to 40 minutes The park is about 16 km in size and located in south coast of the Caspian Sea. It starts at the National Flag Square and ends at o Overnight in Baku.

o Breakfast in the hotel o 10:00 starting the tour -- Only Photo Stops o Rising from the south shore of the Apsheron Peninsular at the western edge of the Caspian Sea, the Walled City of Baku was founded on a site inhabited since the Palaeolithic period. The city reveals, along with the dominant Azerbaijani element, evidence of Zoroastrian, Sassanian, Arabic, Persian, Shirvani, Ottoman, and Russian presence in cultural continuity. The inner city (Icherisheher) has preserved much of its 12th-century defensive walls, which define the character of the property. The most ancient monument of Icherisheher is the Maiden Tower – symbol of the city of Baku. Some evidence suggests that the construction of the Tower might have been as early as the 7th-6th centuries BC. Another monument of universal value, one of the pearls of Azerbaijan's architecture is the 12th- to 15th-century Shirvanshahs' Palace, located at the highest point of Icherisheher. Within the Palace complex are the Divankhana (reception hall) or, as some researchers believe, the Tomb of Shah, the residential building of Shirvanshahs, the remains of Key-Kubad Mosque, the Tomb of Seyid Yahya Bakuvi, Murad’s Gate (the only monument of the 16th century), the Tomb of Shirvanshahs’ Family, the Shah Mosque and the Palace bath-house. Earlier monuments of Icherisheher include the Mohammed Mosque, together with the adjacent minaret built in 1078, and remains of the 9th- to 10thcentury mosque near the Maiden Tower. o There are also numerous historical-architectural monuments of the medieval period such as caravanserais, hamams (bath-houses), mosques and residential buildings of the 18th to 20th centuries located within the property. o The magnificence of Icherisheher lies in the combination of its distinct architectural monuments and its historically composed architectural spatial planning with original street views, which have merged into a single entity to reflect its long history and the melding of cultures that have influenced its development over the past nine centuries. Icherisheher is still a living, vibrant city with residential areas housing local communities o Overnight in Baku.

o Breakfast in the hotel o 09:30 am starting of the tour o Azerbaijan is nicknamed the land of fire, thanks to its numerous natural gas vents and a long history of fire worship in the country. The Baku Ateshgah (Fire Temple) was built during the 17th and 18th centuries as a monastery and place of worship for Zoroastrian monks as well as Indian devotees of Shiva. The pentagonal castle like structure was constructed on top of a natural gas vent where fire rituals were practiced, like lying atop hot coals. o Visit the incredible burning mountain known as Yanar Dag near Baku in Azerbaijan.Yanar Dag is a burning mountain (actually a small hill) situated in the Absheron Peninsula 25km north of the capital Baku. This incredible display is like the little brother of the Door to Hell in Turkmenistan across the Caspian Sea. A fire blazes continuously from natural gas deposits in the hillside. Azerbaijan has a long history when itcomes to all things fiery, rooted in the early Zoroastrian religion and its worship of fire. Flames have beenburning on this peninsular since the times of Marco Polo and he observed the fires on his visit to the peninsula in the 13th Century.