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Baku: Unesco Site Gobustan and Natural Wonder Mud Vulcanoes
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Baku: Unesco Site Gobustan and Natural Wonder Mud Vulcanoes

By Addtrip
Free cancellation available
Price is RM 885 per traveller* *Get a lower price by selecting multiple travellers
Features
  • Free cancellation available
  • 1d
  • Mobile voucher
  • Instant confirmation
  • Selective hotel pickup
  • Multiple languages
Overview
  • You explore one of the most ancient places in all of the world.
  • Discover the scenes of ancient humans and their way of life related to hunting.
  • Walk through the huge megaliths and stone platforms
  • Create unique and creative photos, images and videos.
  • Explore The Mud volcanoes - it is very special and very unique experience

Activity location

    • Baku
    • Baku, Bakı, Azerbaijan

Meeting/Redemption Point

    • Baku
    • Baku, Bakı, Azerbaijan

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1-Day, Baku: Unesco Site Gobustan and Natural Wonder Mud Vulcanoes in Multilingual
  • Activity duration is 1 day1d1d
  • English
Price details
RM 884.93 x 1 TravellerRM 884.93

Total
Price is RM 884.93
Until Fri, 3 May

What's included, what's not

  • What's includedWhat's includedInclusion:
  • What's includedWhat's includedSpecialized bilingual guide,
  • What's includedWhat's includedBottle of water and chocolate,
  • What's includedWhat's includedClassic standard car, vito or sprinter car,
  • What's includedWhat's includedBottle of water and chocolate.
  • What's excludedWhat's excludedExclusion:
  • What's excludedWhat's excludedUnfortunately, no food will be served on this tour but there is a café where you can purchase it.
  • What's excludedWhat's excludedGratuities are not included, it is recommend to tip the guide 15-20% at the end of the tour.
  • What's excludedWhat's excludedFood and aditional drinks.
  • What's excludedWhat's excludedAnd addtional services and destinations.
  • What's excludedWhat's excludedEntrance tickets to museum 10azn per person/6 usd per person

Know before you book

  • Not allowed: Luggage or large bags
  • Not suitable for: People with mobility impairments

What you can expect

• 10 am Start your day as a Time Traveler with period that followed the last Ice Age, from the Upper Paleolithic to the Middle Ages.

The site also features the remains of inhabited caves, settlements and burials, all reflecting an intensive human use by the inhabitants.
• 11:45 am Discover the animal images and rock art.
Welcome all success into your life with playing a music with Gaval Dash, which stands at the entrance to the park, is one of four musical stones found in the reserve. They were probably used as a percussion instrument. When this big, two-meter-long stone is struck with smaller rocks, it makes a hollow, ringing sound, resembling the sound of a tambourine, or “gaval” in Azerbaijani language.

• 12: 15 Learn the rock-art as a sample of first kind of communications.
It is suggested that at the time of the earliest rock drawings the climate was wetter with verdant vegetation in the area. in the rock drawings include bulls, goats, horses, deer, lions, wolves, birds, turtles, insects and more. Piles of stones forming what looked like huge labyrinths appeared in some areas among the ‘sea of rocks.`

• 12:35 Walk through the huge megaliths and stone platforms.
Get a very special feelings with walking through huge megaliths, caves (Anazagha) and stone platforms.

• 12:45 Listen to the local folklore.
Those mythic elements, being the result of artistic thinking of the primary form of human society, reflect cosmos and chaos, i.e. mixture in world life, disorder, the creation of world life(order) of this irregularity, and the reflection of all this in human society. Cosmos in mythic world-outlook, i.e. rules accepted by most of the people, reflects the process of mutual understanding between the major rule of the society- family, life, man, and nature.

• 13:00 Visit Interactive Museum. Travelling Through Time.
This museum demonstrates the breadth of these changes. Beginning with the time of the dinosaurs and ending with Gobustan today. This lovely museum good for the children also.

• 14:00 Explore The Natural Wonder - Mud volcanoes of Azerbaijan
You get very special and unique experience. There are over 400 volcanoes in the country, and this is the largest number of volcanoes found in a single region. Dashgil Mud Volcano is located 2–2.5 km north of Alyaty railway station, which is situated 60 km southwest of Baku. The volcanic cone is a flat uplift elongated in east-west direction. Tectonically, it is confined to latitudinal faults extending along the western periclinal axis of the Dashgil structure. Dashgil is one of the active mud volcanoes in eastern Azerbaijan. It has erupted in 1882, 1902, 1908, 1926, and 1958. The area of volcanic breccia extends over 470 hectares, with an average thickness of 55 m.

• 15:30 Return to Baku city. End of the tour.

Location

Activity location

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    • Baku
    • Baku, Bakı, Azerbaijan

Meeting/Redemption Point

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    • Baku
    • Baku, Bakı, Azerbaijan