Azerbaijan Travel International is pleased to present our guests Shamakhi-Gabala tour.
Baku-Gabala tour is a journey in which cities, regions, capitals, climatic zones and parts of the world change. After spending a day on this way, you get acquainted with the main feature of the nature of Azerbaijan – its rich diversity. And in addition to being close to nature, you get closer to the culture and history of Azerbaijan, as the road passes in the lands that have a wonderful past.
And the details are in the journey itself. What a miracle happened a thousand years ago in Qobustan, what is special about the technology of the ancient Shamakhi mosque, what Gabala looks like from a bird's-eye view, what is special about the taste of Sheki halva and much, much more will be learned by anyone who will make himself (and loved ones) a pleasant gift by purchasing the Baku-Gabala tour.
Duration: 12 hours
Van, Mini bus
Morning in Baku. The guests are met by a guide around the country – a representative of the tour operator Azerbaijan Travel International and everyone sets off on a comfortable bus, first passing through the whole city. There are 250 kilometers ahead, and guests will have several halts, stops with excursions and lunch.
10:45 Shamakhi city is the ancient capital of the medieval state of Shirvan. In this city, one of the centers of Azerbaijani poetry and viticulture, guests will have an excursion to the Juma Mosque. Guests will find themselves in the walls of a grandiose architectural structure made according to ancient antiseismic technology. A visit to the first Muslim temple in the Caucasus, built in 743, will introduce tourists to the history of Islam in Azerbaijan and the history of the mosque itself. After that, they will go further along the road that stretches like a ribbon along the Mugan mountain Pass, classic for the Greater Caucasus, and leads to the northwest of Azerbaijan to Ismayilli.
13:30 Lunch in the mesmerizing Goychay forest. An hour break in a car transfer in a cozy restaurant will bring the main gastronomic notes to the Baku-Gabala tour. A three-course meal will end with a tea party, and fresh air saturated with oxygen will have a beneficial effect on digestion. Well-fed and with pleasant impressions from the first half of the tour, the guests go on. The culmination of the journey awaits them.
You will make your own way to the meeting points