PRIVATE TOURS IN Azerbaijan |
| Guide for Baku city tour - At the end of the 19th century Azerbaijan was responsible for more than half of the world's oil production, and Baki was rolling in money. Between 1885 and 1915 hundreds of luxurious mansions were built by entrepreneurs and oil barons who had grown wealthy almost overnight. |
| Tours outside Baku. - Sheki - (320 km from Baku), This is one of the most ancient towns in Azerbaijan, situated on a mountain slope over 2,200 ft above sea level. The upper, ancient part of the town is turned to a historical museums. |
| Tour to Nakhchivan - Nakhchivan (Naxcivan, Naxjivan, Nakhichivan) is the magnificently stark, disconnected chunk of Azerbaijan stretching from the awesome shadow of Mt Agri (Ararat) to the historic town of Ordubad. For most of the Soviet era this was a secretive military zone. |
| Carpet tour - For centuries Azerbaijan had been a country of various handicrafts, particularly carpet-making. Carpet-making is one of the ancient fields of the decorative-applied art of Azerbaijan. |
| Baku city tour - First Day Arrival to Baku, transfer from the Airport to your Hotel Accommodation in the hotel Breakfast Beginning of excursion in Old Town - "Icheri Sheher". See the highlights of Icheri Sheher including the Palace of the Shirvans (the most striking example of the Medieval palace structures in Azerbaijan, dating to the middle of 15th century). |
| Individual tours - We are delighted to have the opportunity to help you plan a tailor made tour to Azerbaijan. Please give us as more information as possible on what you expect or would like to see within this trip in order to enable us to give you as exact reply as we can. |
| Old City Tour includes visiting the Shirvan-Shahs - This is a unique complex of buildings richly decorated by 15th -century skilful architects and craftsmen. Among them are the tomb of Seid Yahia Bakuvi, a court astronomer; Shah's family tomb; the Palace Bathhouse, discovered in 1936; Synyk-Kala Minaret, the earliest (XI c. |
| Guide for Old Baku tour - Baki's compact Old Town is a mixture of Medieval monuments, 19th century oil boom Mansions, and a few Soviet-era monstrosities. It once extended farther east towards the sea, but part was demolished to make way for Neftchilar prospekti and the waterfront park. |
| Fire Worshippers - It is an Indian Temple built near the natural vents of flaming gas in Surakhny area at a 25- km distance from Baku. Openings in the walls permitted a view of the eternal fire on the altar inside and other flames at the four corners of the altar roof. |
| Maiden Tower - The Maiden Tower is a remarkable architectural monument of V-XII cc; this is one of 2000 architectural monuments within the Absheron area. Raising to a height of 90 ft, it stands much as it did a thousand years ago. |
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