4x4 Jeep Tour - Secrets of Gobustan and Mud Volcanoes

This tour offers you an unforgettable Off-Road Trip to Mud Volcanoes and Gobustan Nature Reserve, located approx. 70 km from Baku.

Duration of the tour: 5-6 hours.

Excursion schedule: Every day

Itinerary:  Baku – Mud Volcanoes – Kichik Dash – Gobustan Outdoor  Museum - Baku

Meeting point:  Your hotel or any mentioned address

Excursion type: Private

You will see:

Mud Volcanoes Jeep Tour – is a fascinating journey and a unique opportunity for nature lovers and those who prefer active rest. Jeep tour is an off-road driving on the four-wheel drive vehicles. According to the number of mud volcanoes Azerbaijan takes first place in the world. Approximately 350 of 800 existing mud volcanoes are found in Azerbaijan. Most of them are concentrated in Gobustan Region.

Gobustan or by other name Museum of Petroglyphsis (outdoor museum) located approximately 70 km from Baku. Prehistoric rock drawings - petroglyphs - are an art "archive" of the human evolution on Earth. The "articles" of such archives are the first transmissions from the human "I" to the outer world. There are a few of such outdoor "archives" in Azerbaijan. One of them, the largest, is located in Gobustan, at the Baku State Reserve of History, Ethnography and Arts, near Baku. It is a rocky massif on the bottom of the southeast part of the Great Caucasus Range, near the Caspian Sea and a modern highway built on the ancient Shirvan road. In mountains of Gobustan Beyukdash, Kichikdash, Djingirdag and Shighgaya there were concentrated witnesses of the past of azerbaijanian nation of the epoch of Stone Age and ongoing periods – rocky paintings, camp of man, tombstones and etc. The most significant of them are rocky pictures – petroglyphs, carved by primitive men on walls of caves, rocks and stony lumps. The aforesaid primitive monuments of art reflect culture, economy, world outlook, customs and traditions of ancient azerbaijanian peoples.

Active Mud Volcanoes of Dashgil Group

There is a group of active volcanoes Dashgil situated to the east of the Gobustan museum. You will be able to see it very close, climb to the crater of mud volcanoes and observe the gurgling liquid clay.