Travel to Azerbaijan

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Travel to Azerbaijan www.kosmostrip.net Caucasus wedding 10 days Baku - Shamakhi - Ismayilli - Gabala - Sheki - Zaqatala Day 1 Baku Arrival at the international airport Baku Heydar Aliyev. Pick up by your guide and transfer to hotel. Make the night. Day 2 Baku Breakfast at the hotel. This morning started with a guided tour of Baku. We are surrounded by a city wall, medieval old town "Icheri Sheher" with its maze of narrow streets, historical caravanserais, mosques and the Palace of the Shirvan Shah. The best scenario offers the mysterious tower girl from ancient times. Then visit the impressive mansions of the oil barons, who at the time of the oil boom in 1870 - were built in 1914, and the Avenue des Martyrs, with its splendid views over the Bay of Baku. Day 3 Baku Absheron Peninsula Breakfast at the hotel. Today we take a half day excursion to the Absheron Peninsula. We visited a temple Ateshgah Fire Zoroastrians and attractive mosque Amirjan. Numerous fortifications give us a glimpse into the defense system of the peninsula during the Middle Ages. Return to the fortress in Mardakan. After that we go to "Yanar Dag". In "Yanar Dag", the "burning mountain" experience the fascinating spectacle of natural gas fires. Our route takes us beyond the old oil fields. Do we stop to take pictures. Day 4 Baku Gobustan Breakfast at the hotel. Today we drive to Gobustan. There are thousands of cave paintings of the Stone Age depicting hunting scenes, animals, people and boats. Roman Legionaries have also left here later petroglyphs. On the way we mud volcanoes. In an almost empty moonscape see strange mud volcanoes, which have nothing to do with volcanism, but are due to processes of geological folding of oil and gas reserves in Azerbaijan. Baku.Free time for shopping and souvenirs. Day 5 Shamaxi Baku-Sheki Breakfast at hotel and check out. We left Baku in the Caucasus Mountains, located in northwestern Azerbaijan. Due to the dry landscape and wild savannahs got to green hillsides, densely forested and visit Shamakhi, the capital, once flourishing SchirwanShahs. Facing Maraza also visited a Muslim cemetery mausoleum in the white two basement floors centuries old, built in honor of Entourage Diri Baba. In Shamaxi visited the local mosque and the picturesque cemetery mausoleum "Yeddi Gümbez". Then we go to the historical Sheki, which resembles an oriental spa town with its monuments and mild climate. Our turo starts with the legendary Summer Palace of Sheki Khan, characterized by their fantastic frescoes and stained glass. We visited the museum, the fortifications and Shebeke workshop (there you can see how this window glasses made and collected. No adhesive and nails). Day 6 Sheki-Zaqatala Breakfast at hotel and check out. After breakfast we headed to market and thence overland to the village Kish with the oldest church in the Caucasus region (not only the Caucasus, but also to all of Europe), which is dated to the first century. Continue Zakatala, where many minorities (Avar, Rutul, lak). We do a European wedding not only experience, but even participate in this wedding. Today we are going to choose a bride and groom and of course, the other participants of the wedding: Djigite (male) that will awaken the bride, friends of the bride. Then we are surprised by a tailor who sews dresses and local costumes for us. Dinner and overnight at the resort area, located in the territory of the rose plant at the foot of the wooded hill right next to the nature reserve. Day 7 Zagatala Wonderful breakfast with pink rose jam and tea. Bon Appetite! Factory Visit Rose, the German received organic certification because the rose plantations are 25 years unfertilized. And most Rose products are organic. Then begins for us all the riding school. If we're lucky, we rode horses Karabakh, the famous Karabakh horse so well described in the book "Ali and Nino" by Kurban Said. lunch After lunch we will learn local dance: Vagsali and lezginka. A quiet place for the bride and groom: this music is traditional and no wedding was held without Vagsali and very quick to Djigiten lezginka. But the women and girls dancing lezginka much. It's like a contest to see who can endure longer wins. Dinner and overnight in Zagatala. Day 8 Zagatala After breakfast begin immediately preparing the wedding. Cooking plov wedding, royal dishes. There were and are no fixed without plov. Rice pilaf cooked with various ingredients such as meat, chestnuts, plums, grapes will help cook onion wedding plov. After cooking freshen put our heel and come to the wedding. Wedding begins. And what happens after we have unique