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Full day
Specific Tour
18 people
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Bag Baku Tour offers you a short trip to the Absheron peninsula, where you will visit the ancient temple of fire worshippers as well as see the natural eternal fire. Plunge into the culture of fire worshippers for a couple of hours with our guides.
LessYanardag and Ateshgah Tour usually starts at 9:30 AM with picking guests up from their location within Baku.
Ateshgah of Baku.
Based on Persian and Indian inscriptions, the Fire Temple of Baku was used as a Hindu, and Zoroastrian place of worship. The first mention of this temple dates back to the 7th century ad.
Here you can see many cells of fire worshipers with large number of historical exhibits (cookware, stone slabs with inscriptions, elements of clothes) found during archaeological excavations.
Yanardag State Historical, Cultural and Natural Reserve.
Yanardag is a natural gas flame that has been constantly burning since ancient times on a hillside on Absheron Peninsula near Baku. The meaning of the phrase “Yanardag” is “Burning Mountain”.
To this day, pilgrims from Iran and India come here to visit the sacred burning mountain.
The End of the Tour.
At the end of the tour (approximately at 13:00) the driver will drop you off to your location in the city center
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