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Gobustan & Mud Volcanoes Half-Day Private Tour
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Important Information
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Suitable for all physical fitness levels
Cancellation policy
For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours before the scheduled departure time.
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For a full refund, you must cancel at least 24 hours before the experience’s start time.
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Cut-off times are based on the experience’s local time.
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If you cancel less than 24 hours before the experience’s start time, the amount you paid will not be refunded.
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This experience requires a minimum number of travelers. If it’s canceled because the minimum isn’t met, you’ll be offered a different date/experience or a full refund.
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Any changes made less than 24 hours before the experience’s start time will not be accepted.
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Gobustan & Mud Volcanoes tour is a half-day tour and designed for tourists and visitors who are interested in the Stone Age period of humanity, Unesco’s World Heritage, and history. Also, tourists will have the chance to see a group of mud volcanoes. These places will be visited during the tour: - Gobustan National Museum & Gobustan Art Rock - Mud volcanoes - Bibiheybat Mosque
Highlights
4 hours
Free Cancellation
Mobile Ticket
4 hours
Free Cancellation
Mobile Ticket
What's Included
Tour on a private basis
Hotel pickup and drop-off
Comfortable car with English speaking driver
Food and drinks
Additional expenses
Entrance fees
Itinerary
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Mud Volcanoes
Whenever we reach to Gobustan area, we go to the Mud Volcanoes.
Home to nearly a third of the world's mud volcanoes, Azerbaijan features a messy, bubbling, and sometimes explosive landscape. Mud volcanoes are closely associated with hydrocarbon and petrochemical stores underground, hence the gas trying to escape to the surface. A few of these gas leaks are constantly on fire, shooting small perpetual flames into the air, and some believe that these perpetual flames are strongly connected to the appearance of the Zoroastrian religion in Azerbaijan some 2,000 years ago.
Every 20 years or so, one of these mud/gas volcanoes will ignite deep below the surface and create a massive explosion. While generally not dangerous to people, as they are far outside of most city centers, it is believed that six shepherds and over 2,000 sheep were killed by a mud volcano in Bozdagh, Azerbaijan.
30 minutes
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Gobustan Rock Art
After coming back from Mud Volcanoes, we go first to the Gobustan museum, and after spending some time there, we go to the Gobustan Rock Art (open-air museum).
Gobustan State Reserve, located west of the settlement of Gobustan, about 40 miles southwest of the centre of Baku, was established in 1966 when the region was declared a national historical landmark of Azerbaijan in an attempt to preserve the ancient carvings, mud volcanoes, and gas-stones in the region.
Gobustan State Reserve is very rich in archeological monuments, the reserve has more than 6,000 rock carvings, which depict primitive 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.
1 hour and 30 minutes
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Bibi-Heybat Mosque
On the way back from Gobustan area we will pass through the Bibi-Heybat Mosque, where we will stop for a while
Gobustan & Mud Volcanoes tour is a half-day tour and designed for tourists and visitors who are interested in the Stone Age period of humanity, Unesco’s World Heritage, and history. Also, tourists will have the chance to see a group of mud volcanoes. These places will be visited during the tour: - Gobustan National Museum & Gobustan Art Rock - Mud volcanoes - Bibiheybat Mosque