A week in Azerbaijan
2024
Highlights of the trip
During your stay you can enjoy the following highlights: Culture / Heritage, Faune and flora, Discovery, Adventure / Sports & Leisure.
Best times to go
The best time(s) to go is/are : Printemps, Eté, Automne.
Petit Futé
Where to stay - Bakou ?
The map of your stay "A week in Azerbaijan"
Detail of the stay : A week in Azerbaijan
How to get there - Bakou
First steps in Baku
Steps: Bakou
Arrival in Baku, where the day can be spent exploring the old city: the mosques, the shah's palace, the Virgin's tower.
Visit of Baku
Steps: Ordubad
Also in Baku, discover the city of the oil boom, the promenade along the Caspian Sea, some of the many museums in the city (history museum, Nizami museum and museum museum, especially).
Places of interest : MUSÉE DU TAPIS D'AZERBAÏDJAN MUSÉE D'HISTOIRE
On the road to Shaki
Steps: Sheki
Departure to Shaki. Several stops are possible along the road, in Shamakhi (where one can visit a beautiful mosque as well as a very old Muslim cemetery) and in Lahij, a small mountain village with cobbled streets, where crafts have remained very lively.
Shaki and its architecture
Steps: Kish
Shaki, its fortress, its splendid palace, its churches converted into museums, its magnificent caravanserai transformed into a charming hotel. The day can end in Kish, a small mountain village with an amazing 1st century AD Albanian church.
View of the Caucasus
Steps: Kish
From Kish, a beautiful hike in a valley allows you to reach an old fortress with a view of the snowy summits in the Caucasus. Return to Baku.
The Absheron Peninsula
Steps: Shuvalan
Located around Baku, it conceals treasures of architecture and natural phenomena. Spontaneous flames, fire temple, 12th century watchtowers... and, for a well-deserved break, the beaches of Pirshagi or Shuvalan.
Places of interest : TEMPLE DU FEU
