Gobustan Absheron, Mud Volcanoes, Private Day Trip

Tour Gobustan Absheron National Park, mud volcanos, Ateshgah (Fire Temple), and other historical places on a full-day tour from Baku. See how you can combine learning about ancient human history with a visit to natural wonders. This is a perfect opportunity to discover the city if you are a first-time visitor to Baku. The Moon-like landscape filled with mountains, volcanos, and panoramas will leave you speechless.

Gobustan Rock Art Cultural Landscape includes the following cultural values: Rock art: more than 6000 petroglyphs; Shelters, ancient settlements, barrows, and ancient burial places; Piers and holy places; Shelters with petroglyphs on rocks and stone walls, the habitat of primitive people.

“Ateshgah the Fire Worshippers Temple”

It was built in the 17th and 18th centuries and is the most fascinating place in the Absheron peninsula. The temple ceased to be a place of worship after 1883 with the installation of petroleum plants at Surakhany. The complex was turned into a museum in 1975. The annual number of visitors to the museum is 15,000.

“Yanardag”

You will learn legends about Burning Mountain – Yanardag, the most famous ‘eternal flame’ in Azerbaijan; it was lit in the 1950s by a shepherd on the side of the hill. It is one of the few fire mountains that exist today—Yanardag Mountain, which has been burning natural gas for several thousands of years.

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