The 15 Guided Tours in Azerbaijan That Earn Their Price

1.Baku Guided Night Tour

★★★★★★★★★★4.8 · 171 reviews · 2 hours · from $19Our pick

See Baku lit up at night, from Highland Park and Flame Towers to the Caspian waterfront, with a guide, van transport, and hotel drop-off.

“Earlier this week, I completed the evening tour of Baku with Hikmat as our guide. Hikmat was especially awesome sharing lots of information about Baku and Azerbaijan in general. I did the tour on my first evening in Baku, and I think it served as a nice introduction to the city. Strongly recommend this tour and hopefully you have Hikmat as your guide!”

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2.Gobustan/Absheron guided tour with lunch and tickets

★★★★★★★★★★4.8 · 158 reviews · 7h 30m · from $2Best value

Review of Baku’s Gobustan and Absheron day tour, with petroglyphs, mud volcanoes, fire temples, lunch, guides, and practical tips.

“Very interesting trip with lot of history, our guide Mahabat was great and kind, we had enough free time. The destination with the clay volcano was one of the best spot with the jeep ride and the place was interesting. In the bus there was not enough space for legs. But i would book this tour again. :)”

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3.Guided Day Trip to Gabala with Hotel Pickup & Drop-off

★★★★★★★★★★4.7 · 139 reviews · 12 - 13 hours · from $39

Review of Baku to Gabala day trip with Shamakhi Mosque, Nohur Lake, Seven Beauties Waterfall, Tufandag, and hotel transfers.

“We visited very wonderful places like Seven beatuies waterfall. Nohur lake , juma mosque and tufandagh . Cable cars 🚠 were great”

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4.Gobustan, Absheron Sights Guided Day Trip Lunch included

★★★★★★★★★★5.0 · 120 reviews · from $16Top rated

Explore Gobustan rock art, mud volcanoes, fire temples, Yanar Dag, and Baku landmarks on an affordable guided day trip with lunch.

“The tour was very interesting! The pace of sightseeing was perfect. The tour guide Adil was very nice and has good storytelling skills. He even shared some funny stories from his previous trips. Unfortunately, we were stuck in traffic for a Read more”

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5.Baku Gobustan and Absheron guided tour + Free Airport Transfer

★★★★★★★★★★4.5 · 77 reviews · from $10

Explore Gobustan rock art, mud volcanoes, fire temples, and Baku landmarks on a budget-friendly 7 to 8-hour guided tour.

“Excellent trip, highlights of key tourits spots around Baku in around 7-8h. I enjoyed it a lot. Our tour guide, Arif, made the trip really enjoyable and chilled - a superb experience overall.”

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6.Khizi Candy Mountains, Shahdagh Full Day Guided Tour

★★★★★★★★★★4.5 · 61 reviews · from $40

Review of the Khizi Candy Mountains and Shahdagh tour from Baku, with itinerary details, activity costs, transport tips, and booking advice.

“The trip was great and the trip guide tebriz was a great guide. The only problem was the bus was very small and not comfortable at all for the long trip”

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7.Guided Bar Crawl with Shots and Nightclub Entry

★★★★★★★★★★4.4 · 37 reviews · 3h 30m · from $31

Explore four Baku bars with welcome shots, games, photos, and nightclub entry on a lively 3.5-hour guided pub crawl.

“Great tour. I highly recommend Lina as the tour guide 🙂”

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8.Night Lights of Baku: Guided Tour

★★★★★★★★★★4.2 · 27 reviews · 1h 30m · from $8

See Baku after dark on a 90-minute tour of Highland Park, the Flame Towers, Martyrs’ Lane, Baku Boulevard, and more.

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9.Gobustan National Reserve Guided Trip – Private

★★★★★★★★★★4.4 · 19 reviews · 4 hours · from $141

Review of Baku’s private Gobustan tour, with petroglyphs, mud volcanoes, oil history, Bibi Heybat Mosque, and practical booking advice.

“Overall an exzellent Tour with an exzellent guide. Perfekt. Highest recommentation.”

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10.Baku City Tour with Guide Admission Include

★★★★★★★★★★5.0 · 19 reviews · from $47

Review of Baku City Tour with guide, historic sights, carpet museum, Ferris wheel, Little Venice, transport, value, and practical tips.

“Tour was really very nice with beautiful and pleasant wheather of baku city,gabala and shahdag…our Driver Mr.Khan made us very comfortable and homely feel..Because of him we enjoyed baku tour very much”

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11.Baku City tours, Guide, Full Day Tour in Baku

★★★★★★★★★★4.5 · 15 reviews · from $48

Review of Baku’s full-day city tour, covering Highland Park, Bibi-Heybat Mosque, Little Venice, Icherisheher, and Heydar Aliyev Center.

“It was a good and informative tour of the city of Baku. Aisha, our guide, was very knowledgeable and friendly and showed us around. We got to spend enough time at all sightseeing spots. We recommend this tour.”

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12.Baku City Guided Wine Tour (snacks included)

★★★★★★★★★★5.0 · 15 reviews · from $79

Explore Baku’s wine bars, taste six Azerbaijani wines, enjoy local snacks, and learn the country’s wine story on this friendly three-hour tour.

“This was a great experience to try two unique and local Baku wine bars. My tour ended up being just me and my guide, Garam, who was fabulous.”

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13.Sheki group Tour from Baku with guide

★★★★★★★★★★5.0 · 13 reviews · from $63

Explore Sheki from Baku with palace stained glass, Silk Road caravanserai, Kish Church, local culture, and family fun at Khanland.

“Everything was great ! 👍 Thanks to our guide Mr Ali”

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14.Gobustan Guided Day Trip with Transfers

★★★★★★★★★★3.9 · 11 reviews · from $33

Review of Baku’s Gobustan day trip, with petroglyphs, mud volcanoes, oil history, transfers, costs, drawbacks, and booking advice.

“A kind of scam, the evening before the tour I ask the owner Habil on whatsapp for the meeting time under my hotel, he replies that tomorrow's tour has been cancelled, without warning, the evening before the tour, absurd. Habil, understanding that I would leave a bad review, tried to direct me to another travel agency that had an agreement with him, although the pick-up was included, I had to walk for 20 minutes and wait in vain for 30, then a policeman arrived asking me if I was also waiting for this tour to start, I wasn't the only one who got scammed. They took us to this other…”

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15.Gobustan Half Day Guided Tour

★★★★★★★★★★4.5 · 10 reviews · from $33

Explore Gobustan petroglyphs, active mud volcanoes, Bibi-Heybat Mosque, and Baku’s first oil well on a seven-hour guided tour.

“⚠️this was the worst tour i have ever been on. if your thinking about getting this tour trust me u will regret it. your basically paying to just be sitting in a car the whole time and not just a car, a car where you don’t have any room and no ARead more”

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