GYD002: 6 DAYS 5 NIGHTS EXPERIENCE AZERBAIJAN - BAKU & QUBA & ABSHERON & GOBUSTAN MUD VOLCANO | Baku
COUNTRY
AZERBAIJAN
Highlight of Tour
Baku (Arrival)
Baku (Departure)
CITY
BAKU
TOUR CODE
GYD002
TOUR TITLE
6 DAYS 5 NIGHTS EXPERIENCE AZERBAIJAN - BAKU & QUBA & ABSHERON & GOBUSTAN MUD VOLCANO
TOUR TYPE
SIT IN COACH
VALIDITY
FROM 1 Jan 2020 TO 31 Oct 2020
ITINERARY
DAY 1
Meals Self expenses
Baku (Arrival)
Upon arrival Baku International Airport, local representative will pick up and guided to hotel for check in.
Free at own leisure for the rest of the day.
*Transfer Travel by Coach or Van (depend of group size)
* Meals Self expenses
* Hotel Baku Hotel (At your own choice)
DAY 2
Meals Breakfast in hotel, Lunch & Dinner at own arrangement
Baku - Old City Walking Tour
Breakfast in hotel, begin the discovery in Baku by a walking tours. Baku is no exception. The Baku Walking Tour begins in the Icheri Sheher and takes tourists on a historical journey through the different eras. From the medieval times of the Islamic Shirvanshahs through the first oil boom and the Soviet Union to the modern day. Highlights include seeing Maiden Tower, learning about the architectural styles in the Old City and getting an enriched historical and cultural experience.
Baku is the Old City or Icheri Sheher (Inner City) with its fortress walls and Maiden Tower could be more than a millennium old, dating back to sometime between the 7th and 12th centuries. Today, it’s a symbol of the old town. These fascinating structures are in fact included in the UNESCO World Heritage List.
Among the new landmarks of Baku one can distinguish the magnificent Flame Towers building, Heydar Aliyev Center and the sports, leisure and entertainment complex, Crystal Hall. You will to visit Shirvanshahlar Castle, is the biggest monument of the Shirvan-Absheron branch of the Azerbaijan architecture. The complex contains the main building of the palace, Divanhane, the burial-vaults, the shahs mosque with a minaret, Seyid Yahya Bakuvis mausoleum, a portal in the east - Murads gate, a reservoir and the remnants of the bath-house. The palace is depicted on the obverse of the Azerbaijani 10,000 manat banknote of 1994-2006, and of the 10 new manat banknote issued since 2006.
Lunch & dinner will be suggest by local guide at your preference and expense.
Return to hotel at the end of the tour.
List of sites admission (Guideline for entrance fee base on per adult/child, subject to change):
Baku Ferris Wheel USD 7
Baku Funikular USD 1
Maiden Tower USD 7.1
Shirvanshahlar Castle USD 5.9
Mugham Center USD 3
Carpet Museum USD 4.2
Boat in Little Venice USD 3
* Transfer Travel by Coach or Van (depend of group size)
* Meals Breakfast in hotel, Lunch & Dinner at own arrangement
* Hotel Baku Hotel (At your own choice)
DAY 3
Meals Breakfast in hotel, Lunch & Dinner at own arrangement
Baku - Quba Full Day Tour
Tour to Quba city which is a small city located in Quba-Khacmaz district of Azerbaijan on the north-eastern slopes of Shahdag ridge about 168 km (2 hours 30 minutes drive) away from Baku not far from Russian border.
During your Quba tour you will see main attractions of the city and wander its orderly grid of quiet leafy streets and admiring the 19th-century houses and distinctive mosques. Notice also the decrepit century-old Gümbəzli hamam (bathhouse) with its big beehive dome. Nizami Park is a pleasant tree-shaded retreat overlooking the broad gravel bed of the Qudiyalçay River. During tour you will have chance to visit town of Krasnaya Sloboda , home to a unique Jewish community with two active synagogues. You can watch Quba’s famous carpets being made at Qadim Quba, which also has a delightful boutique selling them along with handicrafts and paxlava (alternating layers of chopped nuts and white, stringy, fried pastry, all saturated in a sickly sweet syrup). Also there is a little History Museum.
Lunch & dinner will be suggest by local guide at your preference and expense.
Return to Baku. The excursion to Quba will be rounded up with a drop-off at the hotel/your place.
* Transfer Travel by Coach or Van (depend of group size)
* Meals Breakfast in hotel, Lunch & Dinner at own arrangement
* Hotel Baku Hotel (At your own choice)
DAY 4
Meals Breakfast in hotel, Lunch & Dinner at own arrangement
The Absheron Peninsula has preserved a number of historical monuments: the Ateshgah fire temple (XVII-XVIII centuries), The 14th Century Nardaran Castle, the Round Castle (1232) and Quadrangular Castle (XII century) in Mardakan settlement, the 14th Century castle in Ramana and others. Ateshgah – a temple of fire worshippers located in Suraxani village. Zoroastrians travelled thousands of kilometers from India to Ateshgah to worship fire coming out of the earth.
Next, a visit to Denro Park, a favorite place for locals to enjoy a leisurely stroll, the Dendro Parks serve the purpose of respite. The park is adjoined with some of the main attractions of Baku. It was previously renowned as a botanical garden thus owing to the fact there are several beautiful plants and trees here. Towards the end of the park on its northern side, there is a pseudo-Moorish house referred to as Yesenin museum that accommodates some incredible works of the Russian poet.
Later you will enjoy the view of Yanar dag - the infamous burning mountain. In ancient times natural eternal flames were burning in many places of Absheron. Yanar dag was declared State Historical-Cultural and Natural Reserve in order to protect natural monument.
Lunch & dinner will be suggest by local guide at your preference and expense.
Return to Baku. The excursion to Absheron Peninsula will be rounded up with a drop-off at the hotel/your place.
List of sites admission (Guideline for entrance fee base on per adult/child, subject to change):
Atashgah Temple USD 2.4
Yanar dag Burning Mountain USD 1.2
Dendro Park USD 1.8
* Transfer Travel by Coach or Van (depend of group size)
* Meals Breakfast in hotel, Lunch & Dinner at own arrangement
* Hotel Baku Hotel (At your own choice)
DAY 5
Meals Breakfast in hotel, Lunch & Dinner at own arrangement
Baku - Gobustan Mud Volcano
Gobustan geographical region is situated in the west-south of Baku. The meaning of the word «Gobustan» is derived from two words «gobu» – «ravine» and «stan»- «place», i.e. ravine area. The word «gobu» is also of Turkic origin and means «a dried up river valley».
The tour will start off from Gobustan Museum where you will see ancient human bones, work tools used in back to thousand years ago. Then, you will advance to the mountain in order to see real rock paintings in the open air museum. Most people don’t travel to Gobustan for the mud volcanoes – they come for the petroglyphs. Petroglyphs are symbolic and figurative ‘drawings’ made by early humans by chiselling shapes into the patina of exposed rock. Petroglyphic ‘art’ (crude as it may be) is evidence of the development of symbolic thinking, making it one of the most important artifacts of early human history. Gobustan’s petroglyphs date back up to 40,000 years to the Upper Paleolithic, Mesolithic and Neolithic periods. More than 6,000 individual carvings were discovered here in the 1930s and have been protected through the Gobustan National Park (Gobustan Milli Parkı) ever since.
Later on the tour will continue to the Mud Volcano which is not far from Gobustan National Museum.
Azerbaijan keeps the first place in the world for the number of mud volcanoes. About 300 mud volcanoes are to be found in Azerbaijan – at the shore, in the sea and on islands. During this trip you will get a great chance to see these amazing active volcanoes from very close distance. Mud volcanoes are not really volcanoes at all, but take their name from their resemblance to the molten-lava kind. Mud volcanoes come in all shapes and sizes and many are very small. Because they have no lava and rarely erupt, it’s safe to get up close.
Lunch & dinner will be suggest by local guide at your preference and expense.
Return to Baku. The excursion to Gobustan will be rounded up with a drop-off at the hotel/your place.
List of sites admission (Guideline for entrance fee base on per adult/child, subject to change):
Gobustan Museum USD 3
* Transfer Travel by Coach or Van (depend of group size)
* Meals Breakfast in hotel, Lunch & Dinner at own arrangement
* Hotel Baku Hotel (At your own choice)
DAY 6
Meals Breakfast in hotel, Lunch & Dinner at own arrangement
Baku (Departure)
* Breakfast serve at hotel, free at own leisure until the meeting time for transfer to airport for flight departure.
* Transfer Travel by Coach or Van (depend of group size)
* Meals Breakfast in hotel, Lunch & Dinner at own arrangement
PRICE (MYR)
CATEGORY
HOTEL
2 TO GO GROUND PACKAGE (Price Per Person)
4 TO GO GROUND PACKAGE (Price Per Person)
6 TO GO GROUND PACKAGE (Price Per Person)
3*
GORGUD HOTEL OR SIMILAR
1890
1690
1690
4*
GRAND HOTEL OR SIMILAR
2350
2200
2200
INCLUDES
EXCLUDES
* 05 nights hotel accommodation in Baku
* Daily breakfast at hotel
* 04 full days sightseeing without entrance fee
* Round trip private service airport-hotel transfer
* English speaking tour guide or driver guide service
* Private Service (Except cruise, flight, train or sightseeing public coach if any involved)
* International or domestic air ticket
* Individual expenses
* Airport & hotel portage
* Tour guide or driver guide tipping, EURO 5 per person per day (pay direct
* Sites admission (as mention in itinerary, pay direct)
REMARKS
* General travel period: 01 November 2018 until 31 October 2019 (Travel must be completed by 31 October 2019)
* Red Alert Period: High season surcharge like holiday week, convention week or peak season subject to change upon booking.
* Suggestion flight route: Kuala Lumpur- Baku - Kuala Lumpur
* The above rates are valid for Malaysian passport; surcharge might apply for foreigner passport, subject to individual hotel surcharge.
* Hotel confirmation based on availability at the time of booking.
* The above rates require a minimum of 02 adults per booking, strictly no apply for single traveler unless surcharge apply.
* Triple rate is based on triple occupancy using existing bedding (1 bed or 2 beds) with roll away bed.
* For extra or extension night with us or own hotel arrangement, chargeable for airport-hotel or hotel- airport transfer
* If there any optional tour proposed by tour guide, optional tour fee will be collected before the tour start.
* Optional tour once booked and paid, non-refundable without a valid reason.
* Arrival transfer is scheduled for a maximum 2 hours service from the spot time, any delays or rescheduling flight may incur additional charges and is subject to availability.
* Advance booking required at least 30 working days before departure.
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