Baku and Gabala Package 04 Days / 3 Nights

BAKU AND GABALA PACKAGE

04 Days /3 Nights

Per Person in DBL 845 AED

PACKAGE INCLUDES:

ü  Accommodation in Yeddi Gozel 3* hotel or Lakeside Hotel&Spa 4* in Gabala - 1 night on BB basis

ü  Accommodation in Parkway inn Hotel & Spa 4* in Baku - 2 nights on BB basis

ü  Airport-hotel-airport transfer

ü  Gabala tour with car and English/Arabic speaking driver

ü  Absheron and Baku city tour with car and English/Arabic speaking driver

ü  1 bottle of water per excursion day

Itinerary :

Day 1: ARRIVAL

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

Day 2: GABALA

Breakfast at the hotel. Check-out from the hotel. Gabala tour. Pick-up time 10:00.

Gabala (4-hour drive from Baku) is one of the most beautiful provinces of Azerbaijan with rich and ancient history. For 600 years the city named Kabala used to be the capital of Caucasian Albania, an ancient state that used to exist on the territory of modern Azerbaijan back in the days. The ruins of the ancient city and the main gate of Caucasian Albania had survived until today.

On the way to Gabala you will pass so called Russian forest, river valleys, the famous Chestnut Forest and numerous picturesque villages. We will make a stop at authentic bucket bazaar to buy some fruits and vegetables which are measured and sold by bucket, not by scale.

Gabala region is rich with natural assets. Nohur Lake has a fabulous location with a spectacular view to the Caucasus Mountains. Yeddi Gozel (Seven Beauties) waterfall is situated near Vandam village in a mountainous area with dense forests. The name of the waterfall comes from the seven cascades falling from the highest peak of the mountain. Wooden stairs are leading to the very top. In spring and summer teahouses dot every mountain road, where guests can enjoy tea with traditional types of Gabala jam (for example, walnut or white cherry jam).

Later we will spend some time in Tufandag Winter-Summer Tourism Complex. It provides skiing in winter, going up to the mountains by cable cars in summer, as well as many other types of entertainment like mountain climbing by ATV quad bikes, zip-line, mountain biking, horse riding, etc. Have a breathtaking drive in a cable car: four ropeways extending over 5.5 km will take you for a journey up to a mountain top at 1920 m height, opening spectacular views of Gabala and surrounding mountains.

At Gabala Shooting Club in the village of Bum you can improve your aim and enjoy its beautiful natural surroundings (optional). It is a multi-purpose and world-class shooting facility that can serve both as a recreational and entertainment center.

You can have lunch in national restaurant in a calm and peaceful natural place enjoying delicious fresh farm eco- food coupled with outstanding view to the Caucasus Mountains.

Transfer back to Baku. Check-in to the hotel. Free time.

Day 3: ABSHERON AND BAKU

Breakfast at the hotel. Pick-up time 09:30.

Let`s begin our interesting tour around “Land of Fire”! Our excursion will start with visiting Gala village (40 min drive from Baku), which today is the State Historical Ethnographic Reserve and Open-Air Museum offering the opportunity to see the original lifestyle of Azerbaijani people dated back to 10th-19th centuries. It is a unique place where you can not only make a tour into the past, but also try to bake bread in ancient oven “tandir”, weave a carpet, smear with clay in a pottery workshop or feed camels and horses.

Our next stop is Ateshgah Fire Temple in the village of Surakhani that for centuries has been attracting crowds of thrill seekers. Built in the 17th–18th centuries around naturally burning flames which were previously worshipped by Zoroastrians, the site then had become an important place of pilgrimage for fire-worshipping Hindus until the 1880s. Today it houses a well-designed open-air museum.

And the final stop of our “fiery tour” is State Historical, Cultural and Natural Reserve Yanardag (literary “Burning Mountain”), a complex built around the hill located on the top of the natural gas pocket causing continuous flame eruption. Most probably the fire has been burning in Yanardag for over 20,000 years. These natural flames were described by Marco Polo in the 13th century and continue to mesmerize those who visit the site.

Lunch time.

Enter Icherisheher (Inner City), known as a “Fortress” or “Old City”, a unique historical and architectural conservation area in the center of Baku. This is one of the most ancient places of the country where archaeological excavations revealed burial vaults of the Bronze Age. Maiden Tower (12th century) and The Palace of Shirvanshahs (13th-16th centuries) are the best-known historical monuments located in the Old City.

Besides them there are a lot of other unique monuments such as mosques, minarets, the remnants of caravanserais “Multani” and “Bukhara”, ancient baths, etc. Stroll down the paved streets of this ancient city and drop to some of the numerous souvenir shops where you can buy national clothes, kerchiefs, scarves and caps, dishes and handmade carpets.

Want to have a close look at the Baku`s most popular landmark? Baku business and hotel complex Flame Towers Baku is composed of 3 buildings. The surface of the Towers is fully covered with LED screens reflecting different visual characters in motion, easily visible from the far corners of the city in the evening. Walk along the Alley of Martyrs which is usually being included in the protocol visits of the foreign officials. Enjoy the panoramic view of the city and its bay from Baku’s Highland Park (also called Upland Park), the highest point in the Azerbaijani capital.

Wander between the decorative stone bridges of so-called Little Venice, a small town on the water and one of the jewels of Baku. It has two large and several small islands and its gondolas are travelling in the channels full of still and clean water.

Return to the hotel. Free time.

Day 4: DEPARTURE

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

PACKAGE EXCLUDES:

Flight ticket, insurance, visa, extras in the hotel, tickets to museums, lunches and dinners

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION :

·         Car types: 2-3 pax – sedan (Hyundai, KIA, Honda CRV); 4-6 pax – minivan (Mercedes Vito/Viano)

·         The package is valid till 25/12/2024. Blackout periods:, 12-17 September, 7-26 November.

·         We are not hold any rooms in any hotels; thus, the rooms and prices are upon availability.

·         The prices may not be valid during festive and holiday period, please always reconfirm with us

·         We reserves the right to change the hotel to the different one of the same categories.

·         we reserves the right to change the order of excursions in case of necessity.

·         Check-in to the hotels: 14:00 (can be 15:00 in some cases). - Early check-in before 06:00 in the morning is subject to 100% of the room rate, early check-in between 06:00 and 14:00 is subject to 50% of the room rate (please confirm with our reservation managers before booking).

·         You can extend your stay, add more excursions and/or change the hotel category for additional payment (please confirm with our reservation managers before booking).

·         Tickets for museums mentioned in the program, per person:
- Maiden Tower – 11 USD
- Shirvanshah Palace – 11 USD 
- Heydar Aliyev Centre – 11 USD
- Azerbaijan Carpet Museum – 8 USD
- Cable car in Tufandag Resort – 15 USD
- Cable car in Shahdag Resort – 14 USD
- Gala Ethnographic Museum – 9 USD
- Ateshgah and Yanardag – 11 USD