Baku Shopping Festival
Tour
Duration 4 nights / 5 days
Regions:
Baku-Absheron Peninsula
1 Day
Meeting at the airport.
Accommodation at the hotel 4 * in the city
19:00. Excursion. "Lights of the
Evening Baku".
Tour "Lights of Evening
Baku" begins with a visit to Mountain Park. It is here that the "City
of Winds", as Baku is often called, opens to you in all its glory. The
observation platform located on the highest part of the city, near the
"Burning Flame Tower" shows the city with all its bright lights
bordering Baku Bay reflecting the measured pace of life in the evening Baku.
Further we continue our excursion to one of the favorite places of the walk of
the Baku guests of the city of all ages and social groups, a place where no one
is in a hurry in the evening - "Baku Boulevard". The national park, sometimes called the "diamond necklace of
Baku", stretches along Baku Bay for 16 km. At each time of the day the
boulevard has its charm - in the morning you can walk in silence, feel unity
with nature, go in for sports, during the day, especially on weekends, the
boulevard is fully revived thanks to the small inhabitants of the capital,
riding on attractions, rollerblades and bicycles, in the evening it turns in the
magical world of dreams for all lovers. And the original illumination and
illumination of the park, fountains and other innovations give our boulevard a
special charm. At the end of our excursion "Lights of Evening Baku"
we will go to the most lively and central street of the city of Nizami
"Torgovaya street" as it is also called from the old times. Trading
is the longest of Baku's streets (its length reaches 3.5 km). It is also called
the most beautiful street in Baku - it has a large number of architectural
monuments, beautiful houses, cinemas, parks, many modern boutiques and shops.
Transfer to the hotel and free time
Overnight at the hotel.
2 Day
09:00 Breakfast at the hotel.
Excursion.
"Baku City Tour".
The tour begins with a visit to one of the modern and most recognizable places of the "Heydar Aliyev Center". The center of Heydar Aliyev is a cultural center, which is a complex building, which includes an auditorium (congress center), a museum, exhibition halls, administrative offices. The famous architect Zaha Hadid designed the project of the center. Baku is a city that combines modern and ancient, traditional and unusual. This applies to the religions represented here and our next attraction is the church of the "Holy Wives of the Myrrhbearers". In the Soviet period, the temple was closed one of the first in 1920. First there was a warehouse in it, and then a gym. In the days of the January events of 1990, two shells hit the bell tower of the temple, due to which it was partially destroyed, the floor sagged, the walls cracked, and the roof collapsed. In 1991, the dilapidated building of the church was transferred to the Russian Orthodox Church. On May 27, 2001, His Holiness Patriarch Alexy II of Moscow and All Russia made a great consecration of the Holy Mother of God Church and conferred on him the status of a cathedral of the diocese. After inspecting the temple, we are on our way to the Nagorny Park. It is here that the "City of Winds", as Baku is often called, opens to you in all its glory. The observation platform located on the highest part of the city, near the sleeping "The Languages of Flame" shows the city with all its beauties and greenery bordering Baku Bay. After viewing the observation deck, we go down the stairs and head towards the "Bibi Abyat Mosque". Bibi-Heybat Mosque (Azerbaijan's Bibiheybət məscidi) is a mosque located on the shore of Baku Bay, in Azerbaijan. The existing structure, built in the 1990s, is a reconstruction of the mosque of the same name, built in the 13th century by Shirvanshah Abu-l-Fath Farrukhzad and completely destroyed by the Bolsheviks in 1936, when a fierce struggle with religion was going on throughout the territory of the USSR. The Bibi-Eybat complex, in addition to the mosque, includes tombs and tombs of revered people (including the grave of Ukeima Khanum, the descendant of the Prophet Muhammad), as before destruction, and today is a spiritual center for Muslims of the East and one of the significant monuments of Islamic architecture of Azerbaijan. The mosque was once visited by Abaskuli-aga Bakikhanov, Alexander Dumas, Khurshudbanu Natavan. The local population in the past called it "the mosque of Fatima". Using the same name, described the mosque and visited it in the 40 years of the XIX century, Alexander Dumas. At the end of the modern Baku tour we visit the world's first oil well drilled in the Bibi-eibat oil-bearing region.
Visit to the old town of Icheri Sheher
Very often Icheri Sheher is
called a fortress, as it is surrounded by a well-preserved fortress wall.
People in the territory of Icheri Sheher lived in the Bronze Age, and by the
8th-11th centuries it was completely populated. Behind the walls there are many
unique monuments: the palace complex of the Shirvanshahs with a burial vault, a
sofa, a mosque; "Gyz Galasy" ("The Maiden's Tower");
mosques and minarets, the remains of caravanserais, baths. Buildings of the old
fortress are of a special nature. Because of the lack of the territory of the
building, the wall to the wall was erected here from ancient times. There are
no gardens, the yards are extremely small and separated by "threads"
of narrow streets, lanes and dead ends. When the Shirvanshahs moved their
capital from Shemakha to Baku in the 15th century, massive buildings began in
Icheri Sheher. During this period the pearl of the fortress was built - the
Palace of the Shirvanshahs. It should be noted that Baku XVII-XIX centuries did
not go beyond the boundaries of Icheri Sheher. Here were located the palaces of
the rulers, and residential quarters. From 1747 to 1806 there was the capital
of the Baku Khanate. Only after the beginning of the oil boom, the city began
to expand and goes beyond the boundaries of Icheri Sheher.
The fortress wall itself is of interest. Once Baku had two of them, and they
were separated by moats, but at the beginning of the XIX century, the city grew
so fast that it was necessary to demolish and build the outer wall. Remained
only the inner wall. It has 25 towers and 5 gates. They say that back in the
30s. Twentieth century in the fortress there were more than 900 buildings, and
by the beginning of the XXI century only half remained.
Free time
Overnight at the hotel.
3 Day
09:00 Breakfast at the hotel.
Excursion. "Fire worships Temple Ateshgyah + Burning Mountain Yanardagh".
The Temple of Eternal Fire - Ateshgyah - is an authentic Azerbaijani exotic. It is well-known practically all over the world. It is located 30 km from the center of Baku in the suburb of Surakhany. This territory is known for such unique natural phenomenon as burning natural gas outlets (underground gas coming onto surface contacts oxygen and lights up). The temple in its present state was constructed in the 17th-18th centuries. It was built by the Baku-based Hindu community related to Sikhs. However, the history of the Temple is even longer. From times immemorial this was the holy place of Zoroastrians- fire worshippers (approximately beginning of our era). They attributed mystical significance to the inextinguishable fire and came there to worship the relic.
After
the introduction of Islam Zoroastrian temple was destroyed. Many Zoroastrians
left to India and there continued their worship. But in the 15th -17th
centuries the Hindus-fire worshippers who came to Absheron with trading
caravans began to make pilgrimages to Surakhany. The Indian merchants started
erection of the temple. The earliest temple part is dated 1713. The latest -
the central temple-altar was built with the support of merchant Kanchangar in
1810. During the 18th century chapels, cells, a caravanserai were added to the
central part of the temple. On у can find carved inscriptions in Indian
lettering there.
In the early 19th century the Temple acquired
its present-day appearance. Ateshgah is a pentagonal structure with a
castellation and entrance portal. In the center of a yard the altar-sanctuary
executed in the form of a stone bower on which angles some more centers are
located towers. In the center of an altar - a well from which beat
"eternally" burning gas.
Burning Mountain Yanardagh
One of the most famous and popular tourist
places of the "eternal flame” in Azerbaijan is the mountain of Yanar Dag.
Actually, it is rather a hill than a mountain, with natural gas burning on its
slope from ancient times. Meter-long tongues of fire are licking the stratified
earth approximately for 10 m in width, searing those who approached too close.
People occupy the benches to watch the blazing hill in the evening, when the
its sight is most effective.
Yanar Dag is located 25
km to the north from Baku, in Mehemmedi village. There are buses running to it
from the city, so you can get there fairly cheap and easy. From the year 2007
Yanar Dag is declared a state-protected conservation area.
Free Time
Overnight in hotel
4 Day
09:00 Breakfast at the hotel.
Excursion
"Ethnographic Museum Gala".
Forty kilometres from Baku, there is Gala, the
well-known open-air historical and ethnographic museum. The museum, founded in
2008 at an archaeological site located in the same-name village, is dedicated
to the history of the Absheron Peninsula. There, you can see how the Azerbaijani
lived, what they ate and drank and how they managed a household over the period
from the XVI to XIX centuries. The territory of 1.2 ha hosts old-time houses –
portable tents made of animal skins, subsequently replaced by stone and beaten
cobworks with cupolas, an ancient blacksmith shop, market, pottery, bakery,
threshing mill and other interesting medieval buildings. You can see, touch,
and take picture of all of them. You can even try to bake bread in a common
oven, weave a carpet, muddy in pottery or feed camels, horses and donkeys,
peacefully resting in their stalls. Many monuments and
exhibits were brought to the Gala Museum from different corners of the Absheron
Peninsula; they were renovated or fully reconstructed. All together, they help
to get an idea of the life of the medieval people in Azerbaijan.
Free time
Overnight in hotel
5 Day
09:00 Breakfast at the hotel.
Free time to visit the eastern market, shops with sweets and souvenir shops.
Transfer to the airport
Visa upon arrival at international airports of Azerbaijan can be obtained only
by citizens of Turkey, Israel, Qatar, Oman, Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, Kuwait,
Japan, China, South Korea, Malaysia and Singapore. For citizens of Russia and
the CIS (except for Turkmenistan), a visa is not required to Azerbaijan.
Citizens of other countries must obtain a visa prior to arrival, through the
consulates of Azerbaijan in their country or to issue an electronic visa
through our travel agency. To apply for a visa, contact our managers at least 4
weeks before arriving in Azerbaijan.
Local currency: Manat
the recommended currency for the exchange is: USD or EURO.
Where to exchange currency: Upon arrival at the airport, the guide will provide
accurate information on where and how to exchange cash for local currency.
Availability of ATM: Only in large cities.
Accept credit cards: Only in large cities.
The cost of the tour from 365
USD per person for a stay in Double room includes:
Accommodation in hotel 4 * double room on the program based on breakfast.
Transfers and transportation according to the program.
Excursions on the program.
Services of a Russian-speaking or English-speaking guide.
Entrance tickets to museums.
Additional paid:
Lunch - from 15 USD (soft drinks included)
Dinner - from 20 USD (soft drinks are included)
Supplement for single accommodation: $ 99 per tour
The cost of a visa is 40 USD (if not citizens of the CIS),
Charges for photo - and video shooting in museums
The firm reserves the right to change the
order of visiting excursion objects, keeping the program as a whole. The
company reserves the right to change the cost of the tour provided that it is
notified in time.
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