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Mud Volcanoes and Gobustan offered by supplier M20364 (read about supplier) Key Information: Tour Duration: 1 day(s) Group Size: 1 - 10 people Destination(s): Azerbaijan   Specialty Categories: Volcano Tours   Archeology/History   Season: March - November Airfare Included: No Tour Customizable: Yes Minimum Per Person Price: 80 US Dollar (USD) Maximum Per Person Price: 150 US Dollar (USD)

Half day tour with a visit to Gobustan - an open-air museum littered with Neolithic rock drawings. Just 65 km south of Baku, Gobustan has some 4000 inscriptions that go back 12,000 years (with some 2000 year old Latin graffiti to boot). The well-preserved sketches display ancient populations traveling on reed boats; men hunt antelope and wild bulls, women dance. The famed Norwegian anthropologist Thor Heyerdahl returned many times to Azerbaijan between 1961 and his death in 2002 to study the site, which he argued to be evidence that modern-day Scandinavians migrated north through the Caucasus in prehistoric times.

He found similarities in the drawings to those found in Scandinavia, particularly some in Alta, Norway. According to Icelandic Sagas, written in the 13th century, the Norse God Odin (Wotan) migrated from the Caucasus in the first century AD. You will also have a chance to visit quite a unique site where 300 of the planet's estimated 700 mud volcanoes sit Gobustan, Azerbaijan and the Caspian Sea. Many geologists as well as locals and international mud tourists trek to such places as the Firuz Crater, Gobustan, Salyan and end up happily covered in mud which is thought to have medicinal qualities. In 2001 one mud volcano 15 kilometers from Baku made world headlines when it suddenly started spewing flames 15 meters high.

Notes:
Airfare is not included in the tour price.

Prices:
- 1 person: $150
- 2+ persons: $90
- 4+ persons: $80
- 6+ persons: $70.

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