Baku Caviar Tour

Azerbaijan's territory on a map is shaped reminding a bird, which flies to the east with widely opened wings. The Absheron peninsula with the Azeri Capital is the head of this bird.
Baku or Baki, the capital overlooking the Caspian Sea, is fast becoming a boomtown. Once a major stopover on the  Great Silk Route , there are many captivating sights to see in this ancient country - Bronze Age petroglyphs, medieval minarets and mosques and Azerbaijan's famous carpets.
About a fifth of Azerbaijan's population lives in the capital, the biggest metropolis in Transcaucasia. This handsome city is built around a perfect harbour, Baku Bay, a notch in the underside of the Apsheron Peninsula. Baku and the 70km (45mi) long peninsula enjoy sunny and surprisingly arid weather, spoiled now and then by the gale-force coastal winds called khazri.

TOUR PROGRAM

1-st day - Baku

Transfer from airport. Settlement in hotel.
Dinner.
Free time.

2-nd day - Baku

During two days Baku tour you will have an opportunity to visit the most interesting places of the Azeri capital and will be introduced with its history and current life of the city. You will note the mingling of ancient architecture, traditions with the modern buildings and life style. You will visit ancient Maiden Tower which according to the latest researches is the largest Zoroastrian temple in the world, the old city which is the highly picturesque core of Baku, Zoroastrian temple "Ateshgah" and medieval castles of Apsheron. And on the other hand the most modern signs of the city will also be a part of our program.

Breakfast in hotel.

You will visit the   Ichari Shahar   (the Inner City, or Old Town) heart of the historic city.

Lunch

Secondly the program includes a walk along Baku Boulevard, the second largest one in the Europe. On Boulevard you'll get a boat a make trip on it along Baku Bay
This trip will provide you with an opportunity to observe a panoramic view of Baku Bay and nearly located area of the city. Also during the trip you will be introduced with the interesting facts and legends of the lake better known as Caspian Sea

Dinner in the local restaurant with music program and belly dance and tasting caviar and sturgeon cooked in a local manner.

Those who interested can be transferred to nightclubs and places of interest.

3-rd Day - Ateshgah

Breakfast.

Next point of your tour will be the   Ateshgyah  . The Ateshgah Temple, also known as the Temple of the Fireworshippers, has been a centre of worship for thousands of years.
The Ateshgyah Fire-Worshippers' Temple is located within Greater Baku in the Surakhany district of Baku.
Today the temple is a unique monument of world culture.

Also this day you will visit well preserved ancient castles of Apsheron Peninsula dated XII-XIII AD and located farther out on the Apsheron Peninsula. There are several fine medieval castles - one each at Amirajan and Nardaran and two at Mardakyany - apparently built for defence by the Shirvan shahs in the 14th century.

Lunch.
Free time.
In the evening dinner in the local restaurant with local food, caviar and sturgeon.

Those who interested can be transferred to nightclubs and places of interest.

4-th day - Gobustan

Breakfast in hotel.
This day you will visit the Gobustan reserve. Gobustan is an open-air museum littered with neolithic rock drawings. Just 65km (40mi) south of Baku, Gobustan has some 4000 inscriptions that go back 12,000 years (with some 2000 year old Latin graffiti to boot). Stone Age folks sporting loin cloths pose, hunt and boogie down. Their dances are thought to have been accompanied by the melodious strains of the Gaval-Dashy (Tambourine Stone) - a rock that has a deep, resonating tone when struck.

Lunch.
Free time. Shopping.
To night dinner in the restaurant in one of the Caravanserays located in the Old City with local food, caviar and sturgeon.

5-th day - Baku

Azerbaijan is one of the main exporters of black caviar to the world market. Not everyone in the world tasted this both extremely healthy and expensive product. During this tour you will be closely introduced with Caspian black caviar.

Breakfast in hotel.

Leaving for the Caspian Fish Company, the factory producing black caviar and a number of different kinds of fish products including sturgeon itself.
In Azerbaijan on this factory you can have a unique opportunity to personally watch the extraction of caviar from sturgeon fish, caviar processing, packing and will be given an opportunity to taste caviar (program includes brief lunch there), buy cans of black caviar for the price which will seem funny compared to the black caviar worldwide prices.

Dinner in local style restaurant with a special caviar cuisine, sturgeon and other fish dishes having cooked according to different methods of luxuriant Azeri cuisine.