Day 1
• Arrival to Baku
• Meet your guide at the airport, transfer to Baku
• Short night car excursion “Land of the Fires”
• Welcome dinner in a traditional Azerbaijani style
• Transfer to hotel, accommodation at the hotel
• Overnight in Baku

Day 2
• Breakfast in the hotel
• Walking tour in the old town: visit the Maiden Tower (IX), Palace of the Shirvanshahs (XV), Caravanserai
Multani and Bukhara (XV c.),
• Lunch in a restaurant in the Old Town
• Visit to the Alley of Martyrs to the see the Panorama of the city
• Walking tour through the Boulevard
• Boat trip on the Baku Bay (depending on weather conditions)
• Proceed to the Nizami street (shopping street in the past)
• Free time for shopping
• Dinner at the restaurant
• Transfer to the hotel

Day 3
• Breakfast in the hotel
• Departure from the hotel
• Visit the Mosque Bibi-Kheybat, where was buried a sister of Imam Hussein (one of the main fig-
ures in Islam)
• Inspection of the first oil fields
• Visit Gobustan National Park (a World Heritage site by UNESCO) with a tour of petroglyphs of
the Stone Age period
• Then we leave towards the country’s western region
• Arrival in Naftalan, hotel accommodation
• Dinner ( for additional charges)
• Introduction to the healing properties of naphthalan oil
• Overnight in Naftalan

Day 4
• Breakfast in the hotel
• Departure from the hotel
• Visiting former German settlements of Annenfeld (Shamkir) and Elenendorf (Khanlar), built by German
colonists from Baden-Württemberg, which were moved to the region by the Empress Catherine II
• Arrival in Ganja
• Lunch on the way ( for additional charges)
• A sightseeing tour in Ganja: mausoleum of a medieval Azerbaijani poet Nizami Ganjavi,
Then the walking tour: visit the church of Alexander Nevsky, Church Aguan, Shah Abbas Mosque, Javad
Khan Mausoleum in Ganja
• A visit to the Islamic Shrines of Imamzade
• Dinner at local restaurant (for additional charges)
• Overnight in Ganja

Day 5
• Breakfast in the hotel
• Departure from the hotel to Shaki
• A visit to the mountain village of Kish, where the ancient Albanian church is situated
• Hike to the castle “Gelersen Gorersen” (“Come – You’ll see”)
• Lunch at a local restaurant (for additional charges)
• Walking tour to the old town of Sheki (“Yukhari Bash”)
• A visit to the Palace of Sheki Khans (striking example of construction of the palace of late Safavid period)
• Visit to the Museum of Applied Arts of Shaki, located in the ancient Albanian temple..
• Visiting Sheki caravanserai
• Dinner at Caravanserai (for additional charges)
• Overnight in Sheki

Day 6
• Breakfast in the hotel
• Departure from the hotel to Gabala
• A visit to the city of Oguz on the way
• Introduction to local synagogues in Oguz
• A trip to the village of Nij, visit Udi Church (Udins are direct descendants of the ancient Albanians, they
have preserved their language and way of life, as well as professing Christianity)
• A visit to the ruins of the ancient Gabala (Chukhurkabala), the first capital of Azerbaijan
• Lunch (for additional charges)
• Arrival in Gabala
• Transfer to the hotel
• Free time (optional tourist routes on the cable car to the ski resort Tufandag – 1660 meters above sea level,
for extra fee)
• Dinner (for additional charges)
• Overnight in Gabala.

Day 7
• Breakfast in the hotel
• Departure from the hotel to Ismayilli
• A visit to the village of Ivanovka (inhabitants of the village Ivanovka are Molokans, Russian Old Believers,
resettled by Catherine II in Azerbaijan)
• Understanding the life of the Molokans
• Lunch in Ismayilli (for additional charges)
• Moving to Baku through Muganli pass (photo stops in the most beautiful region of the Caucasus Ridge)
• On the way visit the mausoleum Yeddi Gumbez (“Seven Tumbes”) in Shamakhi
• And the temple in the rock Diri Baba (“Living Grandfather”), the place where wishes come true
• Arrival to Baku
• A visit to the “Burning Mountain” (Yanardag), the place of Natural Gas release in the suburbs of Baku
• Dinner (for additional charges)
• Overnight in Baku

Day 8
• Breakfast in the hotel
• Trip to the Absheron Peninsula
• A visit to the worldwide famous temple of Zoroastrians – Ateshgah
• Trip to the village of Gala, a visit to the Ethnographic Museum Gala, culinary and craft workshops from lo-
cal residents
• Lunch at local restaurant (for additional charges)
• Visit Mardakan Towers
• Transfer to Baku
• A visit to the local Hamam (for additional charges)
• Dinner (for additional charges)

Day 9
• Breakfast in the hotel
• A visit to the local market. Free time in the market for independent shopping
• Dinner
• Airport transfer
• Departure