Gobustan and Absheron Tour

With this tour of Gobustan and the Absheron Peninsula, you'll explore mud volcanoes, petroglyphs, the Temple of Fire, and a burning mountain.

Gobustan and Absheron Tour

At the designated time, we will pick you up at the Baku City Tour's Office for the Absheron Peninsula tour. The first stop is the site of the city's first oil well, drilled in 1871.

We will continue by passing the Bibi-Heybat mosque and proceed to Gobustan National Park to view over 6,000 petroglyphs from the Upper Palaeolithic to the Middle Ages. Here, you can board an old Soviet cab to approach the UNESCO-listed mud volcanoes.

After observing the mud formations, we will have a buffet lunch around 1 pm in the vicinity of Baku.

Finally, we will visit the Absheron peninsula to see the Yanar Dag fire mountain and the Temple of Fire, where we will learn about Zoroastrianism.

The tour concludes back at the meeting point in Baku after approximately 7.5 hours.