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Culinary tour, Walking Tour

Baku Food Tasting Tour

Overview

Experience Baku through its food, drink on a walking tour across both medieval and trendy streets meanwhile enjoying sights, smells and tastes of Azerbaijan cuisine and culinary culture, and conclude the tour with a wine tasting. During the 3-hour your guide will lead you in a small group of up to seven people to the six cafes and restaurants, tea house, a candy shop and wine bar in Old Town and Downtown Baku. Come on the hungry side; samples are generous and a shared meal is included. This tour is ideal for food enthusiasts who like have an overview into Azerbaijani cuisine over three hours walking tour.

Highlights:

  • Learn about local cuisine and how locals eat and drink
  • Tasting a must-have foods and drinks of local cuisine
  • Visiting 6 top café and restaurants
  • One shared meal specialty of at one spot
  • Wine tasting at one of Baku’s best wine bars
  • Guided Baku Wine Tour
  • Insider’s Guide to Baku Dining
  • Small Group experience and flexibility

What to expect?

Meet your local guide and small group up to 7 people in Fountains Square, A central location in Baku. Then, your guide will take you to top restaurants and cafes of Baku to taste selection of Azerbaijani food as specialty of the visited spot. Meanwhile hear about Azerbaijani cuisine, food and drinking culture. Also interact with your with your sommelier and guide about Azerbaijani society in general. Taste generous samples of local food at each restaurant. Visit pastry and sweet shop for best Azerbaijani desserts. Then finish the tour with wine tasting experience at one top wine bars of Baku. At the end of your experience, leave the central location with new insight into Azerbaijani culinary history, and tips for the rest of your trip.

When?

Mon, Wed, Fri at 14:00 PM

Price per group:

Prices per group will be updated soon.

Culinary tour, Walking Tour

BAKU URBAN WINE TASTING

Baku Urban Wine Tasting is a wine-tasting experience that allows you walk and visit the best wine spots to enjoy Baku by evening. We hand pick local wine bars for best wine tasting experiences and delve into dynamic community places in downtown Baku.

All the three places we visit are within easy walking distance and sit-in for wine tasting and a glass of your choice and paired snacks available at every stop. Bring your friends for a great evening.

Highlights:

  • Tasting 9 types of wine made in Azerbaijan
  • 3 glasses of wine from Baku’s best wine bars
  • 3 paired snack (appetizers)
  • Guided Baku Wine Tour
  • Insider’s Guide to Baku Dining
  • Live piano music

What to expect?

Meet your local guide in a central location, Fountains Square, in Baku. Then, your guide will take you to wine bars of Baku to taste various locally made wines, charcuterie and wine tasting experiences. Meanwhile hear about Azerbaijani cuisine, food and drinking culture. Also interact with your with your sommelier and guide about Azerbaijani society in general. Taste three samples of local wines at each bar. Get served a glass of wine you choose. Wine tasting experience also accompanied with charcuterie, the specialty of the wine bar visited. At the end of your experience, leave the central location with new insight into Azerbaijani culinary history, and tips for the rest of your trip.

When:

Fridays & Saturdays 19:00 – 21:30 PM

Price per group:

Price per will be updated soon.

Private Tour, Walking Tour

Baku Oil Heritage Walking Tour

The tour highlights how oil changed Baku as as the new generation of the first era of oil boom assumed their social responsibility for a change in an oriental conventional Muslim society. You will hear stories about Azerbaijan’s dilemma of East vs. West, oil barons’ hunger for personal glory and fame, influence of Polish architects, change and continuity through times under imperial Russia, Soviet and Independent Azerbaijan.

Duration of walking tours would be about 3 hours.

Group SizeGroup Price
1-5 ppl130 AZN
6-10 ppl170 AZN
11-15 ppl220 AZN
16-21 ppl270 AZN

Price includes:

  • Fully narrated sightseeing program in private walking tour;
  • A cup of tea at Coffee Moffie, a local community cafe;
  • Local guide.

Additional Info:

  • Tour is offered in English and Azerbaijani;
  • Operates in all weather conditions, please dress appropriately;
  • Subject to confirmation within 24 hour.
Baku Free Tour, Walking Tour

Baku Original Walking Free Tour

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Overview

Baku Original Walking Free Tour offers a walk through the most historic sightseeing highlights of Baku, the Fountains Square and four UNESCO sites in Old Town (Icherisheher) meanwhile reflecting on Baku’s past and the transformation that brought by oil barons and their quest for personal glory and fame.

You will also get acquainted with social, cultural, political aspect of every-day life in Baku on the background of stories based on real life of oil barons in late 19th and early 20th century as well as soviet and modern times. You will have insight on of small medieval religious town’s transformation into cosmopolitan city. The tour ends with a free cup of local black tea at Coffee Moffie.

Highlights

– Explore oldest part of the city on 2.5 hours walking tour
– Hear legends about prominent Oil Barons
– Understand social dynamics of city life
– Soak up the atmosphere in oldest part of city
– Romanticize streets Ali&Nino used to hang out
– Led by a local guide
– Tour ends with a free cup of tea

Meeting Point: In Front of KFC/Pizza Hut at Fountains Square

The tour takes place EVERY DAY. However, booking is REQUIRED.

Start Time (s)

11:00 AM & 19:00 PM

Tipping: This tour is entirely based on tips. How much you tip is completely up to you. You decide at the end of tour how much you think it is worth, or  what the amount is that guide deserves as an appreciation of services provided at the end.

Additional Info

– At least two people required to run tour.
– Tour is offered in English and Azerbaijani.
– Operates in all weather conditions, except for harsh weather conditions.

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Baku, Baku Free Tour, Walking Tour

Baku Downtown Walking Free Tour

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Overview

In Baku Downtown Walking Free Tour you explore social-cultural-leasure heart of the city centre of Baku that labelled as “Tarqovı” (Nizami street) and learn about exquisite stories of love and hatred, rise and fall, happiness and tragedy, turmoil and tranquillity, contrast and harmony from confluent lifes of oil barons and everyday people.

You will be guided to social and cultural formation of Fountains Square (then Parapet), Nizami (then Torgovaya) and Khagani (Xəqani; then Molokanskaya) streets in Baku based on real life stories, urban legends and myths that have been developed through imperial Russian, socialist Soviet and capitalist modern times. The tour ends with a free cup of black Azerbaijani tea at Coffee Moffie, a local coffee shop.

Highlights
– Explore city centre on 2.5 hours walking tour
– Understand achitectural development of city centre
– Hear about Urban legends and myths
– Soak up atmosphere of popular culture
– Empathize with love stories of Baku
– Spot central pubs and cafes
– Led by a local guide
– Tour ends with a free cup of tea

Meeting Point: In front of Pizza Hut/KFC at Fountains Square

The tour takes place every day except for SUNDAYS. However, booking is required.

Start Point: in front of Pizza Hut/KFC at Fountain Square (Please, refer to google map above)

Start Time: 16:00 PM

Tipping: This tour is entirely based on tips. How much you tip is completely up to you. You decide at the end of tour how much you think it is worth, or  what the amount is that guide deserves as an appreciation of services provided at the end.

Additional Info

– At least two people required to run tour.
– Tour is offered in English and Azerbaijani.
– Operates in all weather conditions, except for harsh weather conditions.

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Half Day Tour

Ateshgah and Yanardag Tour

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OVERVIEW

Ateshgah Temple (trans. Fire Temple) is 17th-19th century temple was built by Hindu and Zoroastrian worshipers and traveller, and was regularly visited place for fire-worshipers in Surakhany. People of hinduism and zoroastrianism would go on a pilgrimage to this place. However, it operates as only museum currently. During late 19th and warly 20th centuries, Surakhany, Sabunchu, Ramana villages were producing industrially huge volume of oil, though it is dormant today. Along the road trip you will observe oil rigs and derricks which are still functional. Yanardag (trans. Fire Mountain) in Mammadali village is the place, where you observe flaming gas that comes from the hill that resembles Ateshgah in 18th century. Natural gas flares continuously from ancient times and is one of best illustration why local people call Azerbaijan as “Land of Fire”. 

ATTRACTIONS ARE COVERED

Ateshgah Temple, Oil fields of Ramana village, Yanardag and 15 minutes photoshooting of Heydar Aliyev Cultural Centre are the attractions to visit.

 

DURATION

Overall duration of the tour is about 4 hours. It starts at 9 AM.

 

PACKAGE INCLUDES

  • Pick up and drop off in the city centre/hotel
  • Transport service
  • Private sightseeing program with a local guide
  • Local guide fee
  • Entrance tickets to sights as per itinerary

 

PRICE

  • 1 person: 160 azn
  • 2 people: 85 azn/per person
  • 3 people: 75 azn/per person
  • 4 people: 65 azn/per person
  • 5-6 people: 55 azn/per person

ADDITIONAL INFO

  • We run the tour in all weather conditions.
  • At least two people required to run the tour
  • Subject to availability

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Baku, Day Tour, Outdoor Activity

Group Tour to Gobustan and Absheron

OVERVIEW

Visit UNESCO World Heritage site at Gobustan National  Park to eyewitness culture of prehistoric humans depicted on Rock as rock-art representation, and Gobustan Mud volcanoes in Dashgil to explore surface similar to one on the Moon as anomalic geological processes in exuding mud volcanoes and Bibi Heybat Mosque, a historic mosque with cultural and social value.

Afterwards we visit a castle-like hindu-zoroastrian pilgrimage site of Ateshgah (Fire) Temple from XVIII-XIX century, Oil fields and ‘nodding donkey’ (oil pump) of Ramana village and Ramana castle from XII-XIV century, ever-lasting fire at Yanardag and later 15 minutes photo-shooting of Heydar Aliyev Centre.

 ATTRACTIONS ARE COVERED

Gobustan Museum of Petroglyphsis, Gobustan Mud volcanoes in Dashgil and Bibi Heybat Mosque, Ateshgah and Yanardag are the attractions to visit.

DURATION

Overall duration of the tour is about 8-9 hours. It strats at 9 AM.

TOUR INCLUDES

  • Pick up and drop off in the city centre/hotel
  • Transport service with AC
  • Private sightseeing program with a local guide
  • Local guide fee
  • Entrance tickets to sights as per itinerary
  • Lunch
  • 0.5L bottled water
  • NOTE:  Mud Volcanoes are inaccessible in a rainy day.

TOUR DOES NOT INCLUDE

  • Entry to Heydar Aliyev Center
  • Alcoholic Beverages

PRICE FOR PER PERSON IN GROUPS

  • 1 person: 250 azn
  • 2 people: 150 azn/per person
  • 3 people: 120 azn/per person
  • 4 people: 110 azn/per person
  • 5-9 people: 80 azn/per person
  • 10 and more: 70 azn/per person

Baku Free Tour, Walking Tour

БЮДЖЕТНЫЙ ТУР ПО СТАРОМУ ГОРОДУ

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В Баку самая древняя часть истории культуры  и социальной жизни является Ичери Шехер (старый город). Вы гуляя по узким улочкам Ичери Шехера попадете на Восток и построенном в архитектурном стиле здания и одновременно можете увидеть самые знаменитые места из Советских фильмов.
Особенности прогулки:
-Двухчасовая пешая прогулка по узким улочкам Ичери Шехера
-История Ичери Шехера
-Социальная жизнь в древнем Баку
-Самые красивые Восточные архитектурные здания
-Места где были сняты Советские фильмы
-Местный гид

Другая важная информация:
Прогулка организована пешком.

-Место встречи: Перед KFC/Pizza Hut на Площадь Фонтанов (собирайтесь вокруг гида с красным зонтиком)
-Время начала: 10:00 утра
-Язык общения: русский
-Цена: чаевые (этот тур зависит только от денег, которые вы дадите. Поэтому по окончании тура для оценки услуг гида вы можете дать чаевые.)

Бронирование для участия является обязательным.

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