Gobustan Rock Art and Natural Wonder Mud Volcanoes

Duration: 5-6 hours I Languages: English, Russian, Dutch, French, Turkish

About this tour

Start your day as Time Traveler with Outstanding Universal Value - Gobustan for the quality and density of its rock art engravings, for the substantial evidence the collection of rock art images presents for hunting, fauna, flora and lifestyles in pre-historic times and for the cultural continuity between prehistoric and mediaeval times that the site reflects. The site also features the remains of inhabited caves, settlements and burials, all reflecting an intensive human use by the inhabitants of the area during the wet period that followed the last Ice Age, from the Upper Paleolithic to the Middle Ages. Visit The Mud Volcanoes. It is estimated that one third of the volcanoes of the world are located in Azerbaijan. Mud volcanoes of Azerbaijan are not just beautiful and fascinating but are also a resource. They are associated with gas and oil. Resulting materials from volcanoes eruptions such as lava, muds and liquids are used in industry as raw materials. Distance from Baku to Gobustan: 67km (42 miles).

Highlights

• You explore one of the most ancient places in all of the world.

• Discover the scenes of ancient humans and their way of life related to hunting and fishing on the rocks of Gobustan.

• Learn about the ‘Yalli’ dance is one of Gobustan’s most famous petroglyphs. It depicts dancers taking part in Azerbaijan’s traditional Yalli dance.

• Walk through the huge megaliths and stone platforms

• Visit Interactive Museum. Travelling Through Time: this museum demonstrates the breadth of these changes. Beginning with the time of the dinosaurs and ending with Gobustan today. 

• Create unique and creative photos, images and videos.

• Explore The Mud volcanoes of Azerbaijan - very special and very unique experience. There are over 400 volcanoes in the country, and this is the largest number of volcanoes found in a single region.

Itinerary

• Start your day as a Time Traveler with period that followed the last Ice Age, from the Upper Paleolithic to the Middle Ages. - The site also features the remains of inhabited caves, settlements and burials, all reflecting an intensive human use by the inhabitants.

• Discover the animal images and rock art. - Welcome all success into your life with playing a music with Gaval Dash, which stands at the entrance to the park, is one of four musical stones found in the reserve. They were probably used as a percussion instrument. When this big, two-meter-long stone is struck with smaller rocks, it makes a hollow, ringing sound, resembling the sound of a tambourine, or "gaval" in Azerbaijani language.

• Learn the rock-art as a sample of first kind of communications. - It is suggested that at the time of the earliest rock drawings the climate was wetter with verdant vegetation in the area. in the rock drawings include bulls, goats, horses, deer, lions, wolves, birds, turtles, insects and more.  Piles of stones forming what looked like huge labyrinths appeared in some areas among the ‘sea of rocks.`

• Walk through the huge megaliths and stone platforms. - Get a very special feelings with walking through huge megaliths, caves (Anazagha) and stone platforms.

• Listen to the local folklore. - Those mythic elements, being the result of artistic thinking of the primary form of human society, reflect cosmos and chaos, i.e. mixture in world life, disorder, the creation of world life(order) of this irregularity, and the reflection of all this in human society. Cosmos in mythic world-outlook, i.e. rules accepted by most of the people, reflects the process of mutual understanding between the major rule of the society- family, life, man, and nature.

• Visit Interactive Museum. Travelling Through Time. - This museum demonstrates the breadth of these changes. Beginning with the time of the dinosaurs and ending with Gobustan today. This lovely museum good for the children also.

• Explore The Natural Wonder - Mud volcanoes of Azerbaijan - You get very special and unique experience. There are over 400 volcanoes in the country, and this is the largest number of volcanoes found in a single region. Dashgil Mud Volcano is located 2–2.5 km north of Alyaty railway station, which is situated 60 km southwest of Baku. The volcanic cone is a flat uplift elongated in east-west direction. Tectonically, it is confined to latitudinal faults extending along the western periclinal axis of the Dashgil structure. Dashgil is one of the active mud volcanoes in eastern Azerbaijan. It has erupted in 1882, 1902, 1908, 1926, and 1958. The area of volcanic breccia extends over 470 hectares, with an average thickness of 55 m

  
  
  

  Return to Baku city. End of the tour.

  P.S. On special request we can visit `Pir` Holy place, located nearby of Gobustan Rock Arts.

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Included:

• Specialized bilingual guide 

• Bottle of water and chocolate 

• Classic standard car, vito or sprinter car 

• Bottle of water and chocolate 

Excluded:

• Additional alcohol and non-alcohol drinks

• Tickets to museums and sites (10 AZN/6 USD)

• Second car to Mud Volcanoes (1 car for 04 pax – 20AZN/12USD)