Baku Tours & Holidays
Baku Small Group Tours & Tailor-Made Holidays
Baku is a pleasant city, built around a bay on the Caspian Sea, with a wide and shady promenade. Central Baku is made up of the medieval walled city known as "Icheri Sheher" with its medieval mosques, caravanserais and narrow alleyways, whilst the boom town area houses the mansions of the oil barons built during the oil boom of the late 19th century. This was a time when the Nobel and Rockefeller families made their fortunes from Baku Oil. The second oil boom took place when the "deal of the century" ...
Baku is a pleasant city, built around a bay on the Caspian Sea, with a wide and shady promenade. Central Baku is made up of the medieval walled city known as "Icheri Sheher" with its medieval mosques, caravanserais and narrow alleyways, whilst the boom town area houses the mansions of the oil barons built during the oil boom of the late 19th century. This was a time when the Nobel and Rockefeller families made their fortunes from Baku Oil. The second oil boom took place when the "deal of the century" was signed in 1994.
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Visit the land of sacred fire
Home to an abundance of natural oil and gas deposits, Absheron is a fascinating area to visit. Discover the ancient and modern methods of oil extraction, as well as the various religious cults associated with oil, with a visit to a Zoroastrian fire temple.
Discover Baku’s many museums
Baku is home to several fascinating museums, including the Azerbaijan History Museum, housed in the 1896 mansion of Z. Taghiev, the richest of the oil barons, as well as the unusual Fizuli Museum of Manuscripts and the many 'house museums', former famous houses or apartments now open to the public.
See mud volcanoes and cave paintings
Explore the otherworldly landscape of Gobustan National Park, home to dramatic mud volcanoes and ancient cave paintings. Discover thousands of rock art showing animals, hunting scenes, dances and ships and even graffiti left by passing Roman armies.
Enjoy the opera in Baku
Take in an evening of beauty, grace and cultivation with a visit to the gorgeous Opera House, built by Georgian millionaire Daniel Mailov in 1911 and considered by many to be the finest building in the city.OUR FAVOURITE PLACES TO STAY
