Gobustan and Mud Volcano Tour

Azerbaijan ranks first in the world in terms of the number of mud volcanoes. 350 of them are in Azerbaijan (about 800 in the world).
It is located approximately 70 kilometers from the capital, on the shores of the Caspian Sea, on the outskirts of the city of Gobustan. Guests of the Gobustan tour come to the volcanoes and enjoy the summer heat by bathing in the deep mud pools of the craters.
Because the mud volcanoes are located far from the main roads, they are known by many people. These natural mud pools, which are not operated by any institution, are used by nature lovers for free.
To reach the mud volcanoes in Gobustan, you need to walk or change your car and take a special vehicle for about 15-20 minutes after the last point of the Gobustan and Mud Volcanoes tour that can be reached by car. The hills pass through a sandy area covered with mud lava and then enter volcanoes that are 50–100 meters apart. Tourists bask in the sun and then climb small volcanoes and immerse themselves in mud-filled crater pools.
200 meters towards the sea there is a larger (ten cool) solitary volcano, next to which there is a lake with dirty gray water, which is also healing. The depth of this great volcano is 3000 meters, and the diameter of the crater is three meters. It is widely believed that the mud here is good for skin diseases and the immune system and beautifies the skin. If you want to get dirty with volcanic mud (cold mud), then it is better to do it in a big volcano, then go down to the lake and wash yourself. After the mud bath, enjoy watching the pig. Tourists wash their bodies in the mud in the nearby Caspian lagoon, bathe for a while, take a steam bath, and then return by tour car to the Gobustan and Mud volcanoes.

On the way back from the Gobustan area, we will pass the Bibi-Heybat mosque and stop there for a while. Bibi-Heybat in Baku City is a historical mosque. The current building, built in the 1990s, is a recreation of the 13th-century mosque of the same name built by Shirvanshah II Farrukhzad II Ibn Akhsitan, which was completely destroyed by the Bolsheviks in 1936. Today, the Bibi-Heybat Mosque is a spiritual center for the region’s Muslims and one of the main monuments of Islamic architecture in Azerbaijan.

The last place we will visit on our excursion will be the world’s first industrially drilled oil well. Industrial production of oil was started in Baku for the first time in history. This event was known in Azerbaijan, but recently, documentary evidence was found in the archive. As a result, the world’s first oil well dug in the village of Bibiheybat near Baku in 1846 at a depth of 21 m was discovered, restored, and turned into an open-air museum.