Gobustan Tour

On the way to Gobustan, you will see whole jungle of oil rigs, which provided the USSR with black gold for more than 70 years. This is the district of Baku where the scene of the nineteenth film of the bondiana was shot "And the whole world is not enough" This is the very scene where Bond first appears in Azerbaijan and drives his BMW Z8 near the oil rigs in the village of Bibi-Heybat. The large oil pipeline being built in the film, which is being laid to deliver Caspian oil to the West - through Azerbaijan, Georgia and Turkey, actually exists.

The first stop of the tour will be the Gobustan National Reserve, famous for its rocky landscapes, where the stories told by our professional guides will take you to thousands years ago. During the tour you will have an opportunity to visit the Gobustan National Museum and see unique exhibits that have reached us through the millennium of history.

After visiting the indoor museum, you will be taken to the open-air museum, where with your professional guide you will discover the mysterious world of petroglyphs - rock paintings and inscriptions of both ancient people and the legionaries of the Roman emperor Domitian.

In good weather conditions, this package also includes an exciting trip to the mud volcanoes. More than 300 out of 700 mud volcanoes, which by origin are associated with oil and gas fields, are located in the Republic of Azerbaijan. In areas of mud volcanoes, you can see gas condensate and oil fields.

On the way back, you can also see the Bibi-Heybat mosque, built by Shirvanshah Abu-l-Fath Farrukhzad in the 13th century. The interior amazing with its colorfulness and the majestically stretching up the facade is not all! Visiting this beautiful monument of architecture, you will also admire views of the Caspian Sea and high cranes of the cargo port located nearby.

At the end of the tour you will have lunch in the picturesque restaurant, which includes green kutab, meat kutab, kebabs of assorted lamb, lula, chicken, vegetables, pilaf, choban-salad, soft drinks.