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Gobustan Rock Art & Mud Volcanoes Tour (Private or Group)
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Duration - 4 hours
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Guide optionsEnglish
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Cancellation PolicyStandard
Overview
This mystical place enables travelers to see the most unique place in Azerbaijan like Mud volcanoes, petroglyphs, ancient sites, and other facilities which date back thousands of years. Guests will spend a day in Azerbaijan’s most popular attractions on this full-day tour from Baku
Highlights
- Experience the lifestyle of prehistoric people dating back to thousand years and learn the history
- Enjoy the bubbling Mud volcanoes called Modern Mars in Azerbaijan
- Explore Gobustan open air rock museum and mud volcanoes
- Admire number of mud volcanoes those 300 mud volcanoes are to be found here
- See the World's first drilled Oil well and working process
Description
Gobustan Rock Art & Mud Volcanoes Tour (Private or Group)
OVERVIEW
Guests will visiting Gobustan Rock Art Cultural Landscape - ancient open-air museum, the world's greatest concentration of Mud Volcanos.
Gobustan State Historical and Cultural Reserve is located west of the settlement of Gobustan, about 40 miles (64 km) southwest of the center of Baku. It was established in 1966, when the area was declared a national historical landmark of Azerbaijan in an attempt to preserve the prehistoric rock carvings, mud volcanoes and musical stones in the region. Gobustan State Reserve is very rich in archeological monuments. Gobustan Rock Art Cultural Landscape within the reserve, which covers an area of 537 ha, has more than 6,000 rock carvings, which depict people, animals, battle-pieces, ritual dances, bullfights, boats with armed oarsmen, warriors with lances in their hands, camel caravans, pictures of sun and stars, on the average dating back to 5,000-20,000 years. Gobustan State Historical and Cultural Reserve acquired national status in 2006, and Gobustan Rock Art Cultural Landscape was inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage List in 2007
What's included
- Inclusions:
- Pick-up from your hotel, and drop-off back to your hotel
- English Speaking Tour Guide
- Comfortable Transportation
- Exclusions:
- Food & Drinks
- Entrance Fees to the museums
- Admission ticket the Gobustan Museum and Rock Art (Est. price is 6 USD per person)
- Anything not mentioned in the inclusions
Itinerary
- Visited Places:
- Gobustan National Park Museum
- Gobustan Rock Art Cultural Landscape
- Gobustan Mud Volcano
-10:00 – pick up from any address or arranged meeting point within Baku
-Drive to Gobustan State Historical and Cultural Reserve
-Stop at: Gobustan Museum
-Stop at: Gobustan Petroglyphs
-Stop at: Mud Volcanoes
-Stop at: Bibiheybat Mosque and Oil Well
-Drop off your hotel or arranged point
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