Duration: 3 days / 2 nights

1 day:

Arrival to Baku, meeting at the airport.Transfer to the hotel, check in. Free time.

2 day:

Breakfast at the hotel.

Old City Tour: Icheri Sheher (Old City), known as a “fortress” – is a unique historical and architectural conservation area in the center of Baku. This is one of the ancient and densely populated places of the country and even of the Middle East. Archaeological excavations revealed burial vaults of the Bronze Age. The Maiden Tower (the 12th century) and the Shirvanshah palace (the 13th-16th century) are well-known historical monuments also locate in Old City. Besides them there are a lot of other unique monuments of Icheri Sheher: mosques, minarets, the remnants of caravanserais "Multani" and "Bukhara", ancient baths. There are a lot of souvenir shops where you can purchase national clothes, kerchiefs, scarves and caps, dishes and handmade carpets.

Return to the hotel.

Free time: walking down to Nizami Street (old trading zone with lots of shops and boutiques), Fountain Square, shopping center “Park Boulevard”, etc. Baku Boulevard is the second largest one in Europe where tourists can get a boat to make a trip along Baku Bay and to be introduced to the interesting facts and legends of the largest lake in the world better known as Caspian Sea.

As an option, for an additional fee we can organize Baku panorama viewing from the Upland Park, and have the opportunity to have a look at Baku hotel complex «Flame Towers Baku» – a new business card of the city

3 day:

Breakfast at the hotel. Free time.Check out, transfer to the airport                  

Duration: 3 days / 2 nights

1 day:

Arrival to Baku, meeting at the airport. Transfer to the hotel, check in. Free time.

2 day:

Breakfast at the hotel. Tour to Gobustan - the national museum in the open air, the rarest monument of the world culture included into the UNESCO heritage list, one of the first centers of human civilization. Ancient images on the walls and caves, rocks and boulders. Their story covers the Upper Paleolithic period until the Middle Ages. There are located the remains of the great prehistoric cromlech (a circular composition of vertical stones, Azerbaijani analogue of Stonehenge). There are approximately 6000 drawings in Gobustan – petroglyphs describing people and animals. Visiting Gobustan State Historical-Artistic Museum equipped with innovative technology, touch screens provided with special multimedia programs, educational and entertaining games, interactive displays, 3D video, etc.

Visiting Mud Volcanos. Azerbaijan is the first in the world by the number of mud volcanoes. 350 out of 800 mud volcanoes in the world are located here! The mud volcanoes of Azerbaijan occupied the 5th place in the international contest of “Seven natural Wonders”, and on September 15, 2004 the largest mud volcano of the world located in Azerbaijan was registered in the Guinness Book of Records.

Visiting Bibi Heybat Mosque.  Built in the 13th century by Shirvanshah Farrukhzad II Ibn Ahsitan II, which was completely destroyed by the Bolsheviks in 1936 and restored later in the end of the 20^th century. The Bibi-Heybat Mosque includes the shrine of Ukeyma Khanum (a descendant of the Prophet Muhammad), and today is the spiritual center for the Muslims of the region and one of the major monuments of Islamic architecture in Azerbaijan. 

Baku panorama viewing from the Upland Park, and have the opportunity to look at Baku hotel complex «Flame Towers Baku» – a new business card of the city. The famous Flame Tower complex composed of 3 buildings. It is interesting that lighting of Flame Towers is considered to be the best in the world according to the survey of skyscrapercity.com. The surface of the Towers is fully covered with LED screens which reflect different visual characters in motion, easily visible from the far corners of the city.

Free time: Walking down to Baku Boulevard, shopping center “Park Boulevard”, Nizami Street (old trading zone with lots of shops and boutiques), Fountain Square.

Return to the hotel. 

3 day:

Breakfast at the hotel

Free time. Check out, transfer to the airport

Duration: 3 days / 2 nights

1 day:

Arrival to Baku, meeting at the airport

Transfer to the hotel, check in. Free time.

2 day:

Breakfast at the hotel. Baku panorama viewing from the Upland Park, and opportunity to look at Baku hotel complex «Flame Towers Baku» – a new business card of the city. The famous Flame Tower complex composed of 3 buildings. It is interesting that lighting of Flame Towers is considered to be the best in the world according to the survey of skyscrapercity.com. The surface of the Towers is fully covered with LED screens which reflect different visual characters in motion, easily visible from the far corners of the city.

Old City Tour: Icheri Sheher (Old City), known as a “fortress” – is a unique historical and architectural conservation area in the center of Baku. This is one of the ancient and densely populated places of the country and even of the Middle East. Archaeological excavations revealed burial vaults of the Bronze Age. The Maiden Tower (the 12th century) and the Shirvanshah palace (the 13th-16th century) are well-known historical monuments also locate in Old City. Besides them there are a lot of other unique monuments of Icheri Sheher: mosques, minarets, the remnants of caravanserais "Multani" and "Bukhara", ancient baths. There are a lot of souvenir shops where you can purchase national clothes, kerchiefs, scarves and caps, dishes and handmade carpets.

Lunch time.

Visiting Azerbaijan's historical ethnographic reserve - the ancient village Gala.

There are 243 monuments of architecture and archeology in the village, from the prehistoric man of the Bronze Age (3000 BC.) to the surviving mosques, baths, premises belonging to the late Middle Ages.

Covering an area of 156 hectares, the preserve contains burial mounds, crypts, dwelling houses as well as 4 storage pools, ruins of an ancient palace, 5 mosques and 3 bath-houses dating back to a period between 3rd Millennium BC and 20th century.

Visiting an ancient Zoroastrian temple of flame – Ateshgah. The temple ages back to the 17-18th centuries and was built by Indian fire-worshipers’ community in Baku. Visiting Yanardag (literary “burning mountain”) to observe natural burning flame outlets at the surface. The hill side is covered with flame and is better viewed in the evening.

Return to the hotel. Free time.

3 day:

Breakfast at the hotel

Free time. Check out, transfer to the airport

For centuries Azerbaijan had been a country of various handicrafts, particularly carpet-making. According to the historical sources, Azerbaijan was one of the most important centers of pile and flat-woven carpets production in the East in Middle Ages. 

Duration:  4 days / 3 nights

1 day:

Arrival to Baku, meeting at the airport.

Transfer to the hotel, check in. Free time.

2 day:

Breakfast at the hotel.

Old City Tour: Icheri Sheher (Old City), known as a “fortress” – is a unique historical and architectural conservation area in the center of Baku. This is one of the ancient and densely populated places of the country and even of the Middle East. Archaeological excavations revealed burial vaults of the Bronze Age. The Maiden Tower (the 12th century) and the Shirvanshah palace (the 13th-16th century) are well-known historical monuments also locate in Old City. Besides them there are a lot of other unique monuments of Icheri Sheher: mosques, minarets, the remnants of caravanserais "Multani" and "Bukhara", ancient baths. There are a lot of souvenir shops where you can purchase national clothes, kerchiefs, scarves and caps, dishes and handmade carpets.

Visiting The Museum of Carpets & Applied Art, the impressive building located on the seafront. The Museum possesses one of the best collections of local and Persian carpets which will be presented to your attention. It has a brilliant display of woven and knotted Azerbaijani carpets, plus jewelry, embroidery, metalwork and carved wood. The oldest carpet is dated from XVII century. Here you can get acquainted with the types of carpets and weave your first little carpet as well.

3 day: 

Breakfast at the hotel.

Visiting “Azerilme” Carpet Center & Workshop where you will be taken to carpet workshops using an ancient technique of carpet weaving. You'll be given a brief lecture from Azeri experts in carpets. You`ll see the process of the carpets` birth starting from the basic coloring of the weaves with natural colors; creating of sumakh rugs, djedjims, hourjins using ancient technologies and peculiarities of carpet weaving in different regions of Azerbaijan; old carpets` refinishing, straightening and cleaning. It will be also possible to purchase carpets and related items.

Free time: Walking down to Baku Boulevard, shopping center “Park Boulevard”, Nizami Street (old trading zone with lots of shops and boutiques), Fountain Square.

4 day:

Breakfast at the hotel

Free time. Check out, transfer to the airport

Duration:  4 days / 3 nights

1 day:

Arrival to Baku, meeting at the airport.

Transfer to the hotel, check in. Free time.

2 day:

Breakfast at the hotel. Baku panorama viewing with the Upland Park and the Alley of Martyrs. The Alley is one of the parts of the visit for the foreign public officials & tourists. Next to the Alley is Baku business & hotel complex «Flame Towers Baku» – a new business card of the city. The famous Flame Tower complex composed of 3 buildings. It is interesting that lighting of Flame Towers is considered to be the best in the world according to the survey of skyscrapercity.com. The surface of the Towers is fully covered with LED screens which reflect different visual characters in motion, easily visible from the far corners of the city.

Visiting Bibi Heybat Mosque.  Built in the 13th century by Shirvanshah Farrukhzad II Ibn Ahsitan II, which was completely destroyed by the Bolsheviks in 1936 and restored later in the end of the 20^th century. The Bibi-Heybat Mosque includes the shrine of Ukeyma Khanum (a descendant of the Prophet Muhammad), and today is the spiritual center for the Muslims of the region and one of the major monuments of Islamic architecture in Azerbaijan. 

Visiting Baku Crystal Hall. Conceived as both a concert hall and a sports stadium, the 25,000-seat stadium comprises a lightweight steel structure with a faceted membrane facade intended to resemble cut crystal. One of the important factors increasing the importance of the "Baku Crystal Hall" is its location near the Square of the National Flagand the grandiose lighting system with more than 2500 searchlights.

Viewing of The Museum of Carpets & Applied Art, the impressive building located on the seafront and the Mugam Centre nearby.

Lunch time.       

Visiting the Museum of Arts is a beautiful building, used to be the residence of the earl Debua, built by the architect  Nikolay Von der Nonne in 1890. Tour continues visiting Philharmonic Park, just outside the walls of Baku´s Old City. The park, formerly known as the Governor´s Garden and later Vahid Park, slopes down towards the Azerbaijan State Philharmonic Hall(1859). Some archaeological research in the Governor´s Garden has discovered a fragment of the foundation of the south-west part of the middle fortress wall built in the 12th century (1138-1139). After that you will see beautiful City Hall, which is nowadays hosting Baku Mayor’s Office, built in the Baroque style by Polish architect Joseph V. Goslavski in the period of 1900 – 1904.

Tour continues with the Palace of Happiness (Wedding Palace) which belonged to oil baron Murtuza Mukhtarov and was one of the largest mansions in the city. It was built in Neo-Gothic style by famous architect Joseph Ploshko in 1912. Then, moving along Istiglaliyyat street, you will be acquainted with the Empress Alexandra Russian Muslim School for Girls which was built by Joseph V. Goslavski in 1901 sponsored by the Azeri oil baron and philanthropist Zeynalabdin Taghiyev. Next to it is another pearl of Baku architecture -Ismailiyya Palace, which belonged to oil baron M. Nagiev and was built by Joseph Ploshko. And the last treasure of the day is the Museum of Literature by Nizami Ganjavi  built in 1850.

Return to the hotel. Free time.

3 day: 

Breakfast at the hotel.

Old City Tour: Icheri Sheher (Old City), known as a “fortress” – is a unique historical and architectural conservation area in the center of Baku. This is one of the ancient and densely populated places of the country and even of the Middle East. Archaeological excavations revealed burial vaults of the Bronze Age. The Maiden Tower (the 12th century) and the Shirvanshah palace (the 13th-16th century) are well-known historical monuments also locate in Old City. Besides them there are a lot of other unique monuments of Icheri Sheher: mosques, minarets, the remnants of caravanserais "Multani" and "Bukhara", ancient baths. There are a lot of souvenir shops where you can purchase national clothes, kerchiefs, scarves and caps, dishes and handmade carpets.

Walking along the Nizami street (old trading zone with lots of shops and boutiques). Visiting the Opera and Ballet Theatre,  built in 1910 by the architect Nikolai Bayev upon the request of magnate D. Mailov.

Lunch time.

Visiting Heydar Aliyev Centre, the modern cultural centre of Baku. The structure of the center is deemed as one of the rare pearls of the world architecture and project belongs to famous architect Zaha Hadid. Its construction has begun in 2007. The architecture monument was completed and inaugurated on 10th of May of 2012. Total area of the center is 15.25 hectares.

Visiting an ancient Zoroastrian temple of flame – Ateshgah. The temple ages back to the 17-18th centuries and was built by Indian fire-worshipers’ community in Baku. Visiting Yanardag (literary “burning mountain”) to observe natural burning flame outlets at the surface. The hill side is covered with flame and is better viewed in the evening.

Return to the hotel. Free time.

4 day:

Breakfast at the hotel.

Check out, transfer to the airport 

Duration:  5 days / 4 nights

1 day:

Arrival to Baku, meeting at the airport.

Transfer to the hotel, check in. Free time.

2 day:

Breakfast at the hotel.

Tour to Gobustan - the national мuseum in the open air, the rarest monument of the world culture included into the UNESCO heritage list, one of the first centers of human civilization. Ancient images on the walls and caves, rocks and boulders. Their story covers the Upper Paleolithic period until the Middle Ages. There are located remains of the great prehistoric cromlech (a circular composition of vertical stones, Azerbaijani analogue of Stonehenge). There are approximately 6000 drawings in Gobustan – petroglyphes describing people and animals. Visiting Gobustan State Historical-Artistic Museum equipped with innovative technology, touch screens provided with special multimedia programs, educational and entertaining games, interactive displays, 3D video and others.

Visiting Mud Volcanos. Azerbaijan is the first in the world by the number of mud volcanoes. 350 out of 800 mud volcanoes in the world are located here! The mud volcanoes of Azerbaijan occupied the 5th place in the international contest of “Seven natural Wonders”, and on September 15, 2004 the largest mud volcano of the world located in Azerbaijan was registered in the Guinness Book of Records.

Visiting Bibi Heybat Mosque.  Built in the 13th century by Shirvanshah Farrukhzad II Ibn Ahsitan II, which was completely destroyed by the Bolsheviks in 1936 and restored later in the end of the 20^th century. The Bibi-Heybat Mosque includes the shrine of Ukeyma Khanum (a descendant of the Prophet Muhammad), and today is the spiritual center for the Muslims of the region and one of the major monuments of Islamic architecture in Azerbaijan. 

Baku panorama viewing with the Upland Park, and have the opportunity to look at Baku hotel complex «Flame Towers Baku» – a new business card of the city. The famous Flame Tower complex composed of 3 buildings. It is interesting that lighting of Flame Towers is considered to be the best in the world according to the survey of skyscrapercity.com. The surface of the Towers is fully covered with LED screens which reflect different visual characters in motion, easily visible from the far corners of the city.

3 day: 

Breakfast at the hotel.

Old City Tour: Icheri Sheher (Old City), known as a “fortress” – is a unique historical and architectural conservation area in the center of Baku. This is one of the ancient and densely populated places of the country and even of the Middle East. Archaeological excavations revealed burial vaults of the Bronze Age. The Maiden Tower (the 12th century) and the Shirvanshah palace (the 13th-16th century) are well-known historical monuments also locate in Old City. Besides them there are a lot of other unique monuments of Icheri Sheher: mosques, minarets, the remnants of caravanserais "Multani" and "Bukhara", ancient baths. There are a lot of souvenir shops where you can purchase national clothes, kerchiefs, scarves and caps, dishes and handmade carpets.

Lunch time.

Visiting Azerbaijan's historical ethnographic reserve - the ancient village Gala. In the village there are 243 monuments of architecture and archeology, from the prehistoric man of the Bronze Age (3000 BC.) to the surviving mosques, baths, premises belonging to the late Middle Ages. Covering an area of 156 hectares, the preserve contains burial mounds, crypts, dwelling houses as well as 4 storage pools, ruins of an ancient palace, 5 mosques and 3 bath-houses dating back to a period between 3rd Millennium BC and 20th century.

Visiting an ancient Zoroastrian temple of flame – Ateshgah. The temple ages back to the 17-18th centuries and was built by Indian fire-worshipers’ community in Baku. Burning flame outlets at the surface where Yanardag (literary “burning mountain”) is located. The hill side is covered with flame and is better viewed at night times.

Return to the hotel. Free time.

4 day:

Breakfast at the hotel.

Visiting The Museum of Carpets & Applied Art, the impressive building located on the seafront. The Museum possesses one of the best collections of local and Persian carpets which will be presented to your attention. It has a brilliant display of woven and knotted Azerbaijani carpets, plus jewelry, embroidery, metalwork and carved wood. The oldest carpet is dated from XVII century. Here you can get acquainted with the types of carpets and weave your first little carpet as well.

Visiting “Azerilme” Carpet Center & Workshop where you will be taken to carpet workshops using an ancient technique of carpet weaving. You'll be given a brief lecture from Azeri experts in carpets. You`ll see the process of the carpets` birth starting from the basic coloring of the weaves with natural colors; creating of sumakh rugs, djedjims, hourjins using ancient technologies and peculiarities of carpet weaving in different regions of Azerbaijan; old carpets` refinishing, straightening and cleaning. It will be also possible to purchase carpets and related items.

Free time: Walking down to Baku Boulevard, shopping center “Park Boulevard”, Nizami Street (old trading zone with lots of shops and boutiques), Fountain Square.

5 day:

Breakfast at the hotel

Free time. Check out, transfer to the airport