8.00 Breakfast at the hotel.
10.00 Excursion to the Gobustan archaeological reserve and mud volcanoes.
Gobustan is one of the most famous historical and archaeological reserves in the world, an open-air museum with a huge collection of priceless historical exhibits.
The reserve was established on September 9, 1966. The purpose of its activities is to protect rock paintings, burial mounds and residential sites and their careful study.
Toragay is the largest mud volcano in the world, which is located in the south of Gobustan. The height of the volcano is 400 meters, and the volcanic crater is 150 meters in diameter. Toragay is an extinct volcano, that is, it has retained its shape, but no longer shows any signs of activity during the historical period, the volcano's crater has ceased to function,deep barrancos on the slopes and the disturbed shape of the volcanic structure. Toragay volcano erupted 6 times from 1841 to 1950.
14.00 Lunch in Gobustan.
15.00 End of the excursion.
17.00 Returning to Baku. Bibi Heybet Mosque is the burial place of the descendants of the Prophet Muhammad. A majestic building with a mausoleum in the center of one of the halls. Strict paintings and decorations, mesmerizing splendor - cannot leave visitors indifferent. The descendants of the Prophet Muhammad are buried here, among them the daughter of the seventh Shiite Imam, Ukeyma Khanum. This mosque is one of the most revered in the Muslim world.
- review of offshore oil platforms in the Caspian Sea;
Visit to the place where the world's first oil well was. It is officially accepted that the first oil from an industrial well with the help of a drill was obtained by the American Edwin Drake in 1859. But few people know that the well in Baku was drilled 13 years earlier, in 1846. It was this well that became the first in the world, giving impetus to the industrial production of oil and natural gas throughout the world.
19.00 Dinner at a local restaurant.
Free time after dinner.
Overnight at the hotel.