Baku: Gobustan, Mud Volcano, Fire Temple & Burning Mountain
Description
Begin your tour with a pickup from your Baku hotel and head to Gobustan Settlement to explore ancient rock carvings, some over 20,000 years old. Next, visit the Mud Volcanoes of Gobustan for 45 minutes to learn why Azerbaijan has the most mud volcanoes in the world. Then, spend 15 minutes at the Bibi-Heybat Mosque, a key Islamic monument. Continue to the site of the world’s first mechanically drilled oil well from 1846. Stop at Ateshgah Fire Temple for an hour to admire the eternal flame. Proceed to Yanardag Reserve and the village of Mammadli for 45 minutes of guided exploration. Conclude with a 30-minute stop outside the Heydar Aliyev Cultural Center before returning to your hotel.
Tour Options
Itinerary
Depart from your Baku hotel and head to Gobustan Settlement. Spend about an hour exploring the ancient rock carvings, some over 20,000 years old. As you walk, delve into the area's rich history.
Head to the renowned Mud Volcanoes of Gobustan. Discover why Azerbaijan has the highest number of mud volcanoes in the world and spend about 45 minutes exploring this unique area.
Visit the Bibi-Heybat Mosque which is now a spiritual center for Muslims in the region and a significant monument of Islamic architecture in Azerbaijan.
Enjoy a leisurely lunch for one hour (optional, extra fee).
Visit Ateshgah, the Zoroastrian Fire Temple, and spend an hour exploring this sacred site, admiring the eternal flame, and finding inner peace.
Next, head to the Yanardag State Historical, Cultural, and Natural Reserve in the village of Mammadli, spending 45 minutes exploring with your guide.
Conclude your tour with a 30-minute stop outside the Heydar Aliyev Cultural Center. Learn about the rich cultural traditions of the area before returning to your hotel in Baku.
Highlights
What's included
Traveller Ratings
Important Information
- Infants are required to sit on an adult’s lap
- Not recommended for travelers with spinal injuries
- Not recommended for pregnant travelers
- Not recommended for travelers with poor cardiovascular health
- Suitable for all physical fitness levels
- Travel time is already included to the total tour duration.
- Approx. 6 Hours Drive time is included to the total tour duration.
Reviews(12)
This was a great experience! Make sure to bring cash for the trip, but I met wonderful guests on the tour and it takes you to all the highlights of Baku and the surrounding region. The coordination was smooth and the tour guide was very informative, speaking in both English and Russian. For the previous reviews that complained about the tour location, if you follow the address it leads to a road where the tour vans are parked. It was very obvious that they were there and I had no problem finding them.
Well managed tour,It was like family tour,sufficient time was give at every spot , Vehicle was confortable,thanks driver for the safe driving.Thanks Razak and Russian translator guide.
Our tour guide was absolutely fantastic, so knowledgeable, friendly, and very funny. The planned itinerary was perfect and we thoroughly enjoyed it
Baku: Gobustan, Mud Volcano, Fire Temple & Burning Mountain. I messed up my phone number and missed my tour, but the management at Tranquil Tours was kind enough to reschedule my tour without any extra charges. The 8 hours tour was awesome, our tour guide 'Rza' spoke perfect english and explained the history of various locations. The tour was well managed with good vehicles and complimentary water on board. Highly recommended.
Save your self trouble and don’t book this tour the address is fake there isn’t any form on that address only empty alley waste of money and time it messed up my schedule now i can’t visit the place the whole trip. I asked people from other firms that worked literally 5 meters from where this firm was supposed to be and they’ve never heard of them. Attached photo is supposed to be where the firm is.
Booked a trip in Baku to the mud pools and different attractions. Showed up 30 minutes before departure at 9:00. Could not find the company on my own. Despite I had Whatsapp, the operator never contacted me. After filling a request for a refund, I received a message by email that they would investigate. The operator and I had a conversation over WhatsApp (You can get a transcript if you want to), where he admitted he had not done enough and tried booking me for other trips, but I did not have time for this. Viator never returned with status (Although it was promised within a week in the email). You can not respond to the email. If trying to contact the company on the webpage viator.com the popup form does not support entering text and without text you can not send the form. Conclusion: You can not contact the company! And after a month still no refund. I suppose non-delivery of the tour and no way to contact the company is a one-star experience, maybe zero stars should also be an option....
Excellent guide good English Knowledgeable helpful Excellent sites Great history Wonderful natural phenomenon Enjoyed it
I stayed in Baku for two days. This trip offers me opportunity to view all the Baku must see in suburb areas including the fire temple mud volcano fire mountain the Qobuston and even the I love Baku signature.
The guide: too talkative about all the unnecessary things in the world and had too little to say about the history and the spots. He was borderline disinterested in the group. We saw so many guides would actually go to each room in the Fire temple whereas our guide just read the first para from the wiki and then left us to explore it at our own. He actually gave me a headache. Plus my parents dont understand English so I translate the content for them in Hindi. I have taken tours in other countries where the guides out of respect give me like 10 seconds to translate but our guide didn't give a damn if my parents felt as the part of the group or not. Food: we pre-paid for the food which was a biiiiiiiggg mistake. All we got was two pieces of chicken per person and some rice followed by a bitter coffee. It was by far the worst prepaid food experience I have had till now. And as usual the guide will leave you with the staff that doesn't understand English to enjoy their meal earned from the commission only the appear at the end just as formality.
Very good experience Mr Murad is amazing tour guide tell us everything take this tour must you will enjoy
