Gobustan World Heritage and Mud Vulcanoes Day Tour The tickets to the Moon!
€35/person
About this tour
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Cities: Baku
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Duration:7 Hours
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Languages: English , Russian , German
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Group Size: 20
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Free cancelation: Up to 3 Days
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Live tour guide
Highlights
- Meeting Point: At your hotel Pick up from any location mentioned in Baku city area.
- Gobustan World Heritage Museum and Rocks As a Time Traveler with Outstanding Value Gobustan for the density of its rock arts! Gobustan UNESCO Site it is the remains of caves and burials, considering with an intensive human use by the inhabitants on period of last Ice Age, the Upper Paleolithic and the Middle Ages. Duration: from Baku city to Gobustan World Heritage - 40 minutes driving. Playing a music with Gaval Dash (one of four musical stones found in the reserve) which probably were used as a percussion instrument, resembling the sound of a tambourine. The First Kind of Communications - the rock-art as a sample of this. In the rock drawings include bulls, goats, horses, deer, birds and more. Walk through the huge megaliths and stones, enter to Anazagha cave.
- Explore The Natural Wonder Mud volcanoes. - You will get the unique experience with discovering over 200 mud volcanoes in Gobustan - Alat area and there more than 450 mud vulcanoes which is the largest number of volcanoes found in a single region. The volcanic cone is a flat uplift elongated in east-west Apsheron Peninsula. Dashgil area is a one of the active mud volcanoes in Azerbaijan. It has erupted many times: in 1882, 1902, 1926, and 1958.
- Mud volcanoes are associated with oil and gas resource often within hydrocarbon source rocks. Hydrocarbon deposits are very high in country, especially in geological sections of the middle Pliocene, Paleogene-Miocene and Mesozoic layers (approx 14000 y.) The volcanic mud in this region is rich in minerals: sulfur, magnesium, iodine which is highly beneficial for health conditions. People have used the mud for centuries to treat skin disorders, joint pain, respiratory problems. In Azerbaijan it is mostly used to detoxify the body.
- Ending Point: at your hotel
Description
Duration: 5 hours One way duration : 40 minutes Passing by the Oild and Gas industry. The area around the city has a numerous mud volcanoes, as one of the world’s natural phenomenon. Known for their active bubbling dark grey mud, they sometimes are ready to erupt. Gobustan Rock Art Cultural Landscape covers three areas of a plateau of rocky boulders with an outstanding collection of more than 6,000 rock engravings bearing testimony to 40,000 years of rock art, constellations, animals, music, dance, and hunting scenes in Gobustan.
Includes
- Tour Guide
- Driver and private transportation
- Unlimited water
Excluded
- Entrance fee to Gobustan museum :5€ person
Departure & Return
- Pick up: your hotel or any location in Baku city area
- Drop off: any location mentioned in Baku city area
Covid-19 precautions
- No restrictions
Cancelation Policy
- 48 hours before
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