Gobustan Mud Volcano
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September 20, 2024
Gobustan mud volcanoes are a real miracle of nature!
The place is really unusual and worth visiting, especially if you are heading to the Gobustan National Museum.
The way to the volcanoes lies along a 9 km dirt road.
The locals offered their taxi services for 15-30 manats from the national museum of Gobustan, but we decided to try to get there for free on our own, and we did not lose.
The main thing is that the road is dry!
In an old rented Hyundai, we managed to get from the asphalt exit to the volcanoes in 30 minutes.
If you drive from the museum, there will be large pits at the very beginning, but it will not be difficult to go around them. Further on, the road is better, and the most difficult part is climbing the slope directly to the plateau itself. But you can skip this section and climb on foot.
We were able to get to this location already at night, only after 7 pm.
Methane gas coming out of one of the volcanoes was set on fire before us, which gave the place a mystique :)
It was very fascinating to listen to the bubbling of volcanoes in silence.
Probably, the view is even more beautiful at sunrise or sunset ✨
There is something to come and be surprised at here! 🤩
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January 19
The mud volcanoes of Gobustan are a unique place. Of course, it is good to visit it in spring and summer. In winter, very strong winds blow here and are several degrees lower than in Baku. You can visit the museum, which contains a variety of minerals. If you are traveling by yourself, there is a large parking lot, toilet, cafe nearby. To travel around a large area, you can rent a variety of vehicles.
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May 21
An interesting and unusual place. The point is shown correctly on the map, you can navigate to it, after refueling from the road you need to turn to the right (from Baku), and then immediately turn left, there will be a railway crossing further on, follow the navigator, go for about 20 minutes. We drove a low car, we drove easily, as long as it didn't rain. You park the car and go for a walk, there are a lot of volcanoes there. A little further away, if you walk, there are two boiling lakes. It is better to wear light clothes or take something to change with you. Volcanoes are splashing.
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October 29, 2024
An infernal place. Lifeless spaces, abundantly watered with gray erupting mud, spread between volcanoes. A little further away is the largest volcano with a 1.5m diameter crater and a bubbling lake at the foot. Surprisingly, the gas does not smell, but burns. We were driving on the third day after a heavy downpour, I would be sorry to ruin my car on this bumpy road, but the Indians somehow managed to get there in rented Zhiguli. In our opinion, this is the coolest attraction from this trip to Baku.
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June 4, 2024
We stopped by the Gobustan Museum on the way. I wouldn't have gone separately. It takes a long time to drive with a transfer to Zhiguli, then along the primer for 15 minutes without air conditioning and in the dust
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March 4
Mud volcanoes are located on the top of Dashgil Hill. They are valid all year round. Don't wear new sneakers, they'll be covered in mud.
Entrance fee: 2 manats.
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September 2, 2023
Do not be fooled by the persuasions of the locals, who will show "100% the right road, and this navigator of yours shows the wrong way, only we know it" (unfortunately, they fell for it and gave 30 manats… don't repeat this mistake)
The place on the map is marked correctly, put a dot and go here without any doubt.
A very beautiful and unusual place, I advise you to swim in a mud volcano, it's definitely worth it!!
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November 22, 2022
Mud volcanoes of Azerbaijan are a natural attraction. There are more than 800 mud volcanoes on the territory of Azerbaijan. It is a very interesting place and I recommend visiting it on occasion. However, you should know that you can visit these places only in good weather. I invite you to my excursions
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September 27, 2023
My friend's slipper fell into the mouth of a volcano. We decided that the second slipper should stay there. And the place is cool, but be careful, you can easily fail
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May 23, 2023
So-so entertainment.for 1.5 hours you will drive from Baku by car, then you will be transferred to a Lada and taken to the volcano.so you climb to the top of the cones in which the mud gurgles for poverty on the video is a miracle and the sender is on the way back.if you really have nothing to do with yourself on vacation, it's worth visiting.but it is better to combine it with a trip to other places
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December 26, 2021
The first feeling from what I saw was that I got on the giant set of some fantastic movie in order to try myself in the role of a conqueror of a new planet in the strange scenery, exploring bubbling mini-craters and bubbling volcanoes spitting gray-blue mud. They say that the local mud is curative, but there were no people willing to experience its healing properties in our group.
In general, visiting mud volcanoes is a real quest. Task one: get alive and well to the desired point off-road, knowing only the approximate direction. After the exit from the highway, we were all pretty shaken and seasick. The Volcano pointer with the right arrow, as it turned out, led on a false trail. It was pointless to ask the locals for help: three drivers and three guides quarreled, choosing a way to bypass a difficult section. The drivers were desperately sorry to drive their "car feeders" higher and further. And our stalker-guide walked an impressive stretch to the finish line in general, proving his colleagues right. Task two: try to stay clean, because volcanic mud is washed off with difficulty. Almost no one had any problems with this: at the end of May in Gobustan it was warm, dry and not slippery. But at the same time, a strong and rather cold wind was blowing, so those who captured the windbreakers praised themselves for their foresight. Task three: set fire to the top of the volcano to see the burning gas tongue. The guide taught this trick, but one of our companions got so carried away that he singed his eyebrows and forehead. Everyone successfully coped with the final task – to take stunning pictures of volcanoes and lakes at sunset. An extremely curious and unusual sight!
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November 8, 2024
There's nothing to watch
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October 2, 2022
A very unusual place! I am sure that it will not leave anyone indifferent!
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June 5, 2024
Very unusual)!
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August 13, 2018
A cool place to visit. If you are by car, then feel free to go - get there yourself. And on any. However, if it didn't rain that day. There will just be a village road of 4km . When the bumps start, just eat on the understudy :) The point on the map is correct. Use only Yandex Maps, not Yandex Navigator. Drive through the Village of Alat.
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December 15, 2019
A magical place! I recommend you to visit!
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