Ultimate Gobustan National Park Tour: Explore Mud Volcanoes, Ancient Museums, and Historic Mosques
Qobustan
Embark on the ultimate Gobustan National Park tour and discover the wonders of mud volcanoes, ancient museums, and historic mosques. Explore the largest mud volcano, visit the Gobustan museum, Bibiyehbat Mosque, and the world's first industrially drilled oil rig.
Duration: 5 hours
Cancellation: 1 day learn more
Highlights
  • Mud Volcanoes - After picking up the guests we head to the Gobustan area and whenever we arrive there, we will change our car to Lada car, (because the road going to there is in bad condition) and head to one of the largest Mud Volcanos in the world.
    The absolute height is more than 390 m. Its crater, 500-550 m in diameter, is bordered with 8 m high bank and is broken from the west side by mud volcanic breccia flow, 1 km long and 250-300 m wide. The total size of the volcano is 3.8 by 2.9 km. The mud volcanic sheet area comes to 754 ha, the breccia average thickness is 100 m.
  • Gobustan Rock Art - After coming back from the Mud volcano, we change cars, and take our comfortable car again and lead to Gobustan National Museum.
    Gobustan State Reserve located west of the settlement of Gobustan, about 40 miles southwest of the centre of Baku was established in 1966 when the region was declared as a national historical landmark of Azerbaijan in an attempt to preserve the ancient carvings, mud volcanoes and gas-stones in the region.

Gobustan State Reserve is very rich in archeological monuments, the reserve has more than 6,000 rock carvings, which depict primitive people, animals, battle-pieces, ritual dances, bullfights, boats with armed oarsmen, warriors with lances in their hands, camel caravans, pictures of sun and stars, on the average dating back to 5,000-20,000 years.

  • Bibi-Heybat Mosque - On the way back from Gobustan area we will pass through the Bibi-Heybat Mosque, where we will stop for a while
What's Included
  • Professional Driver and Guide
  • Comfortable Car with a/c
  • Special Transport to the Toragay Mud Volcano
What's Not Included
  • Food & Drinks
  • Entrance fee to the Gobustan museum
  • Other additional expenses during the tour
Additional Information

This expedition presents the opportunity to visit one of the globe’s most immense mud volcanos, alongside other historical locations such as the Gobustan museum, Bibiyehbat Mosque and the first industrially drilled oil rig worldwide.

During this journey, you will explore:

  • The world’s largest mud volcanoes
  • The Gobustan National Museum
  • The Bibi-Heybat Mosque
  • The globally recognized first industrially drilled oil well
Location
Mud Volcanoes
Dasgil Hill
Cancellation Policy

For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours before the scheduled departure time.

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