
AZERBAIJAN - Around Baku -
Gobustan (or Qobustan) -
Absheron Peninsula
Gobustan Rock Art Cultural Landscape is located on a plateau of rocky boulders rising out of the semi-desert, with an outstanding collection of more than 6,000 rock engravings bearing testimony to 40,000 years of rock art. It's a Unesco Heritage site. After you might be interested by a visit of a unique site with 300 of the planet's estimated 700 mud volcanoes.
Also visit the Absheron Peninsula with the Ateshgah Mebedi Fire Temple and the famous mosque : Mir Movsum Aga Ziyaretgahi.
BEST TIME to VISIT Absheron Peninsula
BEST TIME to TRAVEL to GOBUSTAN
from April to October

Absheron Peninsula - Mir Movsum Aga Ziyaretgahi

Absheron Peninsula - Mir Movsum Aga Ziyaretgahi

Absheron Peninsula - Ateshgah Mebedi Fire Temple

Absheron Peninsula - Ateshgah Mebedi Fire Temple

Absheron Peninsula - Ateshgah Mebedi Fire Temple

Absheron Peninsula - Ateshgah Mebedi Fire Temple

Petrol extraction

Harbour

Bibi Heybet Mosque - Cemetery

Bibi Heybet Mosque

Bibi Heybet Mosque - Cemetery

Bibi Heybet Mosque

Petrol activities are everywhere

heading to the mud volcanoes

Caspian Sea from Qobustan

Mud volcano

Mud volcano

Mud volcano

Mud volcano

Mud volcano

Qobustan Petroglyp Reserve

Qobustan Petroglyp Reserve- landscape

Qobustan Petroglyp Reserve


Qobustan Petroglyp Reserve - Petroglyps

Qobustan Petroglyp Reserve - Petroglyps

Qobustan Petroglyp Reserve - Petroglyps

Qobustan Petroglyp Reserve - Petroglyps

Qobustan Petroglyp Reserve - Petroglyps

Qobustan Petroglyp Reserve - Petroglyps

Absheron Peninsula - Caspian sea and beach

Absheron Peninsula - Salty lake

Absheron Peninsula - Ateshgah Mebedi Fire Temple

around Baku - Mud Volcanoes landscape

Petrol Extraction