Baku Retreat
Hotel or lodge, twin sharing
5 days, planned by Meridian Overland
Icherisheher is a walled medieval town with a twelfth-century tower in the middle of an oil city. Both halves are worth the evening.
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| Maiden Tower |
| Palace of the Shirvanshahs |
| Flame Towers |
Forty thousand years of rock carvings in the morning and a hillside that has been on fire since antiquity in the afternoon.
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| Gobustan petroglyphs |
| Mud volcanoes |
| Yanar Dag |
| Ateshgah |
Lahij has made copper by hand for centuries and the street is still lined with the workshops doing it.
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| Lahij cobbles |
| Copper workshops |
| Gabala |
The palace windows are shebeke — thousands of pieces of coloured glass held in a wooden lattice with no glue and no nails.
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| Sheki Khan's Palace |
| Caravanserai |
| Shebeke windows |
A long road day. Evening flights only out of Baku on this itinerary.
Day 1 · Fri, 18 Sept, 2026
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Hotel or lodge, twin sharing
Hotel or lodge, twin sharing
Hotel or lodge, twin sharing
4 breakfasts and 3 dinners across 5 days, at the lodges you sleep in. It opens with dinner on day 1 and closes with breakfast on day 5.
7 meal services named in the itinerary. Vegetarian and vegan covered everywhere; Jain and gluten-free on notice at booking
“Europe and the far north on a fixed calendar”
Well paced over 5 days with enough free time to not feel herded. Would send friends their way.
Appreciate the honest feedback; we're looking at the pacing on that section.
Everything was arranged properly — transfers, entries, all of it. Rooms were comfortable and the locations meant we could walk most evenings. The team read the group well and adjusted without making a thing of it. No hesitation recommending them.
Thank you for travelling with us — glad the route worked out.
Hotels were a step below what I expected for the price.
Appreciate the honest feedback; we're looking at the pacing on that section.
Azerbaijan runs an ASAN e-visa that comes through in about three working days for most nationalities. It is not in the trip price. Indian passport holders are eligible.
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