Best Things To Do In Azerbaijan

Azerbaijan is a country that fascinates

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Absheron Excursion

A trip along the central and eastern parts of the Absheron peninsula will acquaint you with the historical and architectural monuments of this amazing place. We will get a chance to visit Yanardag mountain, which has been burning for several millennia, and attend the Temple of fire-worshipers Ateshgah and the museum complex with artifacts. You will examine the cultural heritage and sights of the archaeological and ethnographic Gala complex museum dedicated to the history of the Absheron peninsula. Many of the monuments were brought to the museum from different parts of the country, restored, or recreated. On the premises of the Gala, there are exhibits of ancient artifacts of everyday life and ornaments.

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Night tour of Baku

Nighttime Baku is a unique phenomenon of urban illumination of incredible proportions, a striking effect where the deeper the night – the brighter the city! Indeed, Be sure to visit a night excursion when you are here. You will see the whole panorama of the city in your palm, admiring the spectacular view from the height of Upland Park. City fountains, museums, mosques, park areas, squares and boulevards, modern buildings, and architectural monuments will appear completely different.

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Welcome to Azerbaijan!

Azerbaijan is a historically and culturally rich country with numerous architectural monuments, old buildings, museums, ancient mosques, nature reserves, parks, and a highly developed tourist destination. Each city preserves its centuries-old history; local residents value, revere, and take pride in this history.

Recently, more and more tourists from all over the world choose the resorts of Azerbaijan for comfortable recreation or fascinating travel. This trend is completely justified. Apart from delightful cultural, historical, and natural attractions, the country offers a huge variety of first-class hotels, beach areas, numerous entertainment facilities, and various services.

Azerbaijani cuisine is delicious as well as beautiful

Cooking in Azerbaijan is an art honed to an amazing taste. The local cuisine abounds in piquant dishes and relies on an amazing variety of recipes with spices and herbs. They add a note of seductive flavors to the taste.

A true marvel is dushbara (soup made with small pelmeni), dolma (rice with meat and onion in grape leaves), Qutab (meat with greenery rolled in dough), and of course the famous Azerbaijani pilaf with saffron, chestnuts, and raisins, bozbash, kalah-pacha, dovga, piti.  The love of meat recipes gave rise to such table delicacies as saj (tender veal with an abundance of vegetables), bozartma (chicken soup), traditional lyulya-kebab, kizartmma, basturma, dolma, kufta, taydir toyug. As for drinks, the popular ones include sherbet, ayran, bulama, doshab, shoshab, iskayandzhebi. Local sweet treats are just as various. The most popular ones include shekerbura, baklava, sheker-chorek, Baku kurabe, nan, kyata, tykhma, kyulcha, mutaki, Sheki halva, and countless varieties of jam. Local residents are particularly fond of tea, which is considered a symbol of hospitality and respect.

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Amazingly beautiful nature of Azerbaijan

Azerbaijan is an amazingly beautiful part of the world full of unusual natural contrasts. There are majestic mountains, plains, alpine meadows, beautiful forests, steep slopes, gorges, and canyons. Nature has bestowed this area with 9 of the 11 existing climatic zones. Another key point, in Azerbaijan, you can simultaneously visit the snowy peaks of the mountains, descend to alpine meadows, enjoy the spring scent of forest lands and soak up the sunshine on the beaches of the sea coast.

Correspondingly, the natural mountain forest landscape of the Guba, Gabala, and Sheki districts is particularly delightful. Even more, While the attractions of the Tengealty canyon, the Tenga gorge, the famous Geshresh forest, the Yeddi Gozel, the Afurdzhyn waterfalls, the Gobustan nature reserve, and the picturesque Caucasus mountains will make a unique impression on you.

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These beautiful places make you fall in love with this place forever

The city of Gabala, nicknamed “Azerbaijani Switzerland”, is one of the oldest cities in Azerbaijan and a frequently visited tourist destination. Breathtaking natural attractions, picturesque forests, chestnut and walnut groves, rivers, lakes, and numerous architectural monuments surround the ancient city all around.

Excursions to Gabala from Caspi Tours are full of unique facts and various sights. Come to this amazing corner of the world and you will be fascinated with it forever.

Amazing open-air museum

There are 1200 mud volcanoes in the world, 387 of which are situated in Azerbaijan. The country is home to the highest mud volcano in the world Dyurar-Kolany and the most active one – Lokbatan. Over the past 200 years, it has erupted 57 times. Large and small mud volcanoes in the southeastern part of the highland area are located in the Gobustan reserve.

The Gobustan reserve zone is included in the UNESCO list of cultural heritage. It is one of the most haunting localities of Azerbaijan. There are flat rocky peaks Beyukdash, Kichikdash, and Jingirdag, the hill of Yazili. It was here that over 6,000 rock paintings, images, and inscriptions of the Neolithic period.  As well, 40 ancient burial mounds, an extinct volcano in the Dashgyn mountain area, and an active volcanism volcano Dashgil were discovered. In the vicinity of Böyükdash mountain, there is a small museum and an excursion path leading to the main rock carvings and stone inscriptions in Latin.

Baku is a modern city with medieval coloring.

Baku is an amazing city with unique architecture, history, customs, and traditions. It is the capital of Azerbaijan, a big industrial, economic, and cultural center of the country. Located in the southern part of the Apsheron peninsula. Baku is considered one of the best seaside resorts on the Caspian Seashore. A huge number of popular attractions, monuments, palaces, museums, temples, mosques, and ancient buildings surrounding Azerbaijan

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