The 7 Best Full-Day Tours in Gobustan & Absheron

1.Full Day Trip in Baku (Gobustan & Absheron)

★★★★★★★★★★5.0 · 72 reviews · from $180Our pick

Spend 6 to 8 hours exploring Baku’s most unusual sights with a private guide and vehicle. Visit Gobustan’s petroglyphs, ride Soviet Lada cars to mud volcanoes, see Bibi-Heybat Mosque, Ateshgah Fire Temple, Yanar Dag, and the Heydar Aliyev Cultural Center. Guide Fuad is noted for friendly, flexible service.

“This was an excellent tour of some of the more unusual sites of the Baku area. As a fan of geothermal phenomena, I loved the mini mud volcanoes (adorable--really!), as well as the fire temple and the fire mountain. Our guide, Fuad, was extremely friendly, knowledgeable and adaptable to our requests. This was great fun!”

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2.Gobustan,Mud Volcanoes & Absheron Peninsula full day tour

★★★★★★★★★★5.0 · 30 reviews · from $102

Spend about seven hours exploring Gobustan and the Absheron Peninsula with an English-speaking driver, hotel pickup, and a private car. You’ll switch to a Russian off-road vehicle for the rough road to the mud volcanoes, then visit rock carvings, a mosque, a burning hillside, Ateshgah Fire Temple, and the Zaha Hadid-designed Heydar Aliyev Cultural Center.

“We had private tour for my family and we got a driver cum tour guide. Tour started at 10:30am. He was polite and good driver but his knowledge on the tour was very disappointing. Very brief explanation on each sites and most of the time he Read more”

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3.Full-Day Gobustan and Absheron Tour

★★★★★★★★★★5.0 · 19 reviews · from $280

Spend 6 to 8 hours outside Baku with a professional guide, visiting Bibi-Heybat Mosque, Gobustan’s ancient carvings, mud volcanoes, Ateshgah Fire Temple, and Yanar Dag. Pickup, drop-off, air-conditioned transport, fuel, and coffee are included. Guides such as Zaki, Solomon, and Orkhan have led this route.

“My guide Zaki spoke German fluently and did a great job showing me around the most amazing places to see around Baku. When you have only one day to cover the must sees, take this tour!”

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4.Full day Gobustan & Absheron Tour (Group or Private)

★★★★★★★★★★5.0 · 19 reviews · from $30

Spend about eight hours beyond Baku with an English- or Russian-speaking guide, visiting mud volcanoes, Gobustan’s ancient rock art, Bibi-Heybat Mosque, Ateshgah Fire Temple, and Yanar Dag. Transport, pickup, and drop-off are included, while entrance fees and lunch cost extra.

“This trip takes you to the popular sights around the Absheron peninsula, including the first oil well, a mosque, the mud pots, the Gobustan petroglyphs, the burning mountain, and the fire temple. The highlight is definitely the off-road trip in a Lada to the mud pots; evRead more”

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5.Private Full-Day Gobustan and Absheron Tour

★★★★★★★★★★4.5 · 6 reviews · from $67

You’ll spend about nine hours touring Gobustan and the Absheron Peninsula by private, air-conditioned vehicle, with a professional guide and pickup from central Baku. The day combines Stone Age rock carvings, Azerbaijan’s unusual mud volcanoes, Bibi-Heybat Mosque, the Fire Temple, Yanar Dag, and brief stops at Baku landmarks. Lunch and several admission tickets cost extra.

“Sadly this was a total rip off. I’ve done dozens of Viator trips and felt so let down. The trip advertised as 9 hours was only 5 hours at most. Our driver was very pleasant with broken English but the advert was for a professional guide. We were leRead more”

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6.Baku Qobustan Absheron Full Day Guided Tour

★★★★★★★★★★3.2 · 5 reviews · 9 hours · from $19Best value

Spend about nine hours traveling from Baku to Qobustan and Absheron with an English or Russian-speaking guide. See ancient rock carvings, bubbling mud volcanoes, the First Oil Well, Yanardag’s natural flames, and Ateshgah Fire Temple. Hotel pickup is advertised, but meeting-point confusion and mixed-language groups have affected some departures.

“The organization of the local agency was very bad. In my booking it stated pick up from the hotel, but, in despite, of 2 email that I sent it was only in the same morning that some one sent me a WhatsApp saying I had to walk to the meeting point. Once O arrived at Double Gate there was no signage, informing which were the copies. No flags with the name of the company or guides with uniforme, anything. Had to go around asking, and, obviously, it was very confusing. The tour was booked with English speaking guide, but it was a mini bus with the majority of Russian speaker…”

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7.Qobustan Absheron Full Day Tour

★★★★★★★★★★5.0 · 3 reviews · from $77

This six-and-a-half-hour Baku tour combines ancient Gobustan rock carvings, cold mud volcanoes, Bibi-Heybat Mosque, Ateshgah Fire Temple, Yanardag, and a Heydar Aliyev Center photo stop. You travel in an air-conditioned vehicle with an English-speaking guide, Wi-Fi, and water. Admission fees and lunch are extra.

“This company is one of the best company in Balco for travelers and it's the cheapest believe me and I am very comfortable with this person. Even if I went with my family, I will go with him and you to go with him because he understaRead more”

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