Itinerary: Baku – Quba – Shamakhy – Lahij – Sheki – BAKU

Day 1. Arrival in Baku.

Meeting tourists at the Baku airport after Haydar Aliyev.  Transfer and.accommodation at the hotel.

 

Day 2. Baku – Qobustan Preserve

• Breakfast at the hotel
• Visiting Gobustan National Historical – Artist preserve (65 km. away from Baku).
• Acquaintance with archaeological exposition of the museum, lifestyle of ancient people of “Stone Age”
• Lunch in “Caravansaray”(XIV-XV c.) restaurant.(excluded)
• Sightseeing in the “Old City” – medieval part of Baku: “Shirvanshahs’ palace” (XV c.) under UNESCO protection, ancient quarter mosques (Mohammad’s mosque- XI c.), bath, fragments of residential buildings,  “Market Square”, “Bukhara” and “Multani”Caravanserais (XVI c.and XIV c.), “Gyz Galasi” (Maiden Tower – the oldest construction of Baku (under UNESCO protection- entrance)
• Dinner in the local restaurant with folklore show.
• Overnight at the hotel

 

Day 3. Baku – Quba – Khinaliq village       

• Breakfast at the hotel.
• Departure to Quba and Xinaliq village.
• On the way to Khinaliq photo stop on the mountain beautiful places.
• Lunch in local restaurant
• Arrive to Xinaliq. Tour around the village and acquaintance with life stile of local people.
• Drive back to Baku city.
• Arrive to Baku and dinner in local restaurant.
• Overnight at the hotel

 

Day 4. Baku – Shemakhy – Lahij – Sheki

• Breakfast at the hotel
• Passage to the rout Maraza-Shamakhi-Lahij (195km.)
• Photo stops on in the most picturesque places in the mountains.
• Arrival at Lahij mountain settlement of national handicraft.
• Lunch in local restaurant, free time for shopping.
• After lunch panoramic tour to “Lahij ” Historical- Ethnographic reserve /IV-XIX c./:Architectural monuments, handicrafts and manufacture of carpets, workshops and benches of handicraftsmen: braziers, smiths, chasers, metal engravers, ancient mosques, baths, and also original architecture of streets and apartment houses of  the ancient mountain settlement.
• Visit to History Museum of Lahij. (entrance)
• Visit to Carpet workshops and information about Azerbaijani and Lahij carpets.
• Continue trip to Sheki .Arriving to Sheki and dinner in local restaurant
• Accommodation at the hotel.

 

Day 5. Sheki – Baku

• Breakfast at the hotel, check out.
• Visiting east bazaar. Travel from Sheki to Baku city.
• On the way lunch in local restaurant.
• Arrival to Baku, dinner in local restaurant
• Accommodation at the hotel.

 

Day 6. Departure

• Breakfast at the hotel, check out till 12:00
• Transfer to airport.

The end of the program.