Tours to Azerbaijan from Almaty: prices from 464,000 ₸

I needed to arrange a visa and transfer for two days in Gabala, so I walked into a local agency choosing between them and another outfit. chose this one because the tour included exactly the excursions my wife wanted and not the standard set, in the end I didn't regret it though at first I doubted the price. The road from Baku took almost three hours but the guide kept telling some nonsense about local customs along the way and then we turned into the mountains and wow that was powerful especially when we were looking at the valley from the viewing platform. At the hotel the room came with a view of the forest but the main thing is I slept well there before the way back overall for my money I got exactly what... I wanted and even a little more except the dinner which was a solid three out of ten.

Four days in Gabala flew by in one breath. Rafting, the cable car ride, mountains right there — that's some real power, especially when you're standing on the viewing platform and see clouds under your feet (though it was kinda scary, but it was worth it). The locals at the cafe were friendly, portions so big I couldn't even finish the plov, and that's a rare case).

got my visa myself but took insurance and transfer here since we were going to a friend's birthday and didn't want to get stuck at the border. in Baku the company gave a car with a driver which is conveniet but the guide in the old city was a law unto himself, kept pushing carpets and shops. the city itself is fire, girls are pretty guys are pushy but that's fine, food is a feast, but that mountain in the suburbs they promised — meh, fog ate it all. overall if i need a plain ride and a place to stay i'm taking them again, the breakfast nitpick (cold coffee) doesn't count, solid five..

got my foreign passport and at the same window asked about vacation, well off we went to Baku, the manager just said it was the perfect season and he wasnt lying. the old part of the city is really something else, killed my feet on the cobblestones but bought a handmade carpet there and the seller treated me to tea with fig jam. swear I was thinking about that tea while driving to the airport, watched the sunset from the platform at the flame towers and everything just came together but got back to Almaty tired and happy already.

Flew to Baku, chose the tour because of the flight and visa support, took it for my mom so she wouldn't be nervous — didn't regret it. I would've been running around with documents and transfer myself, but here everything was clear down to the minute, even at the hotel reception they knew we were from them, that was a nice surprise. Didn't even expect them to work out this well, came back and already recommending to all my friends, the city itself is wonderful of course, but the trip organization — was a blast.

The manager picked a tour for us to Baku quickly, even though I myself didn’t really know what I wanted — for which she deserves a special thanks. The city is beautiful, especially the old center and the waterfront, we walked the narrow streets from morning till night and never got tired. The food is simple and tasty, but tea with jam is a whole other story, I almost bought three jars of mulberry jam to take home. Well, the views from the Maiden Tower are worth the whole trip, though the stairs were rough on me at my age))))

What a heat in Gabala, even the mountains don't save you, although in the evening the breeze is pretty decent, especially after the downpour that caught us right on the cable car, we went up and on the way back it started pouring, the manager by the way said that in June it's better to take raincoats but I didn't listen. Overall the tour to the ethnographic museum under the open sky was the best part — there you can actually touch old clay jugs and imagine how people lived before. boarding the plane back was delayed for an hour but I was so tired by then that I just kept dozing in my seat and even didn't freak out, not a bad trip, main thing is it went without incidents.

менің квартирантым нафталанды кеңес берді, оның әскерден кейін арқасы атып қойды, ал менің дәл қазір гараждан кейін қысылып қалған жерім ұстап кетті. сөйтіп бардым сол мұнайлы аңғарға ойлап, жаман болмас деп. гянджадан келер жолдың өзі әдемі, тегіс төбелі таулар, бірақ мен жол бойы қалғып келдім — менеджер кеңседе солай керек деген, мен де оны тыңдап қателеспедім. процедураның өзінде сені сол жылы қара майға белге дейін батырады, суырдай, отырасың он минуттай.. әуелі ойладым бос нәрсе деп, кейін денең өздігінен жылынып, омыртқаның арасындағы бір терең жер босап қалды. иісі қатты, мұнай мен дәріхана бірден, киіміңді кейін жусаң да — иіс шортқа сіңіп өлді, бірақ әсері үшін шыдауға болады. кешке күкіртті суы бар бассейнге бардым, кавказдық жергілікті түріктер жаныма келіп бұл жерге қалай тап болдым деп сұрай берді, жалғыз келгеніме күлісті. үшінші процедурадан кейін өліп ұйықтайтын болдым, әдетте жұмыстағы нервтен ұйқысыздық болса да, үйде мұндай тек коньяктан кейін ғана болады. емханада таңертең қабылдайды, бірақ кезек тірі, таңғы сегіз жарымда жазылусыз келсең болады — мен бір рет солай кіріп кеттім, еш апаты жоқ. кіре берістегі қолөнер қалашығы жаман, шарфтың бағасы дьютиктегідей, ал мен суреті бар купюраға алданып, алты манатқа кілтке брелок сатып алдым. жүз пайыз разымын, жаттықтырушыма да тіземді жылытуды айттым)))

Went to Gabala all because of dad, he's seventy-three and had wanted to see these mountains for ages, I'd never have gotten myself together to go on my own. Honestly, expected there'd be at most one decent road and it'd all turn out meh, in the end we drove around the gorges took the cable car; what I remember is the local kebabs we washed down with tea from a samovar. The tour left a feeling of some kind of proper unhurriedness and dad was genuinely happy, so the Kazakh agency earned its money

Had to go to Naftalan because of my back, doctors at home only offered painkillers, but friends here were directly insisting that this particular oil heals, so I went without much hope… the procedures themselves are kinda strange, you lie in this hot liquid, smells harsh, but afterwards it really got easier or maybe it just let go after the vacation, I don’t get it. The road from Baku is long, but along the way I managed to see the mountains and tried the local cuisine, such a delicious thing, now I remember that food at home more often than the procedure itself, but overall I stayed satisfied, came back and already recommended it to two girlfriends))

vzyala tur v Baku, dumala prosto sezzhu na vyhodnye, a okazalos ochen dazhe krasivo. Gulyala po staromu gorodu, ruki sami zamirali na kamnyah — teplye, sherohovatye, tak i tyanet posidet. Edinstvennoe, chto nemnogo podvelo, — pogoda v marte, vetreno, no eto dazhe pomoglo ot tolpy turistov. Chto udivilo, tak eto chto mestnuyu kuhnyu my probovali pryamo vo dvorah, ne po turisticheskim tsenam, a normalno. Poryadkom ustala ot hodby, zato vyspalas tak, kak doma ne poluchaetsya. S agentstvom nikakih problem ne vozniklo, vse chetko, kak ya lyublyu. Otel pravda s oknom vo dvor, no ya tam osobo i ne sidela — gulyat zhe nado)

didn’t believe in this mud-bath place at all, but my friend insisted and i like a fool agreed. baths with murky slurry, smell down the whole corridor — strange feeling, like you’ve been marinated, and skin after them really is velvety, though in the evening it itched, but my back let go for the first time in a year and that’s a miracle, didn’t expect it. specifically asked the agency in almaty what the deal was with treatment, tickets and transfer we took ourselves, on site i stayed in an ordinary sanatorium, no luxury whatsoever, but procedures strictly on schedule and the third week after the trip — joint pain hasn’t come back, worth putting up with the specifics for this, returned happy and probably will get a package for my mom in summer

Was in Gabala in October, took a tour from an agency in Almaty and you know everything went surprisingly smooth. transfer from Baku met us right at the airport with a sign, though I thought I'd have to find a taxi myself and separately the hotel was nice that the views around are insane — mountains right at the window, and also those cable cars, finally got my fill. argued later with my wife what's better — the old fortress or the lookout at sunset..

the trip turned out surprisingly good although at first i doubted whether it was worth going to Naftalan alone. The manager (he arranged everything for me at the agency) recommended exactly this health resort and really didnt miss — baths with this oil are certainly specific but after the third day my back genuinely let go, i didnt even expect such an effect from muds and massages; the local food in the canteen was simple but very filling and portions huge, and also i liked that theres a market nearby where they sell homemade cheese and cilantro in bunches; the treatment process was scheduled to the minute the first couple of days it annoyed me that i couldnt get enough sleep then i got into it and even liked that theres no free time for bad thoughts. the area didnt change but the doctor at the appointment said skin peeling is normal and toxins come out this way and you know for the first time ina long while i came home with a feeling of cleanness inside although a typo on the voucher had the flight name wrong and i almost flew to Baku instead of Ganja but i noticed in time, overall im fully satisfied with the tour .

Gory vpechatlili konechno, no gorod sam po sebe ochen atmosfernyy, uzkie ulochki i zapah chaya s varenem — eto to chto ya iskal. Organizatsiey v tselom ostalsya dovolen, menedzher iz agenstva pomogla podstroit marshrut pod moi hotelki i podskazala s restoranami. Ponravilos chto ne pihali v tolpu turistov, hotya para mest pokazalis slishkom pafossnymi dlya mestnogo kolorita. Vernulsya s sytymi glazami i kuchey fotok, bral by esche raz tochno.

Naftalan was prescribed to me as treatment, and I went there because this health resort is specific — you climb into oil up to your ears, and it's healing. The road from Baku took about three and a half hours, but that's fine, at least the serpentine road is scenic, though I got a bit carsick in the back seat. The procedure itself is something else, a bath with warm oil, you lie there and feel like either an alien woman or a pancake on a frying pan. The first two days I smelled of this stuff even in my sleep, mint candies saved me, but by the end of the stay I got used to it and even relaxed. Plus they also warm the joints with paraffin and do massage there, well the massage really worked for me, after it my back hummed like a string, but then lightness appeared. At the hotel they fed us three times a day and very home-style, I stuffed myself with plov with dried apricots, but the internet in the room only caught near the window, that annoyed me. The treatment is clearly not for the lazy, a week of such procedure — and you're like a squeezed lemon, but I returned with the feeling that something inside was rebooted (hopefully not just in the joints)), I firmly give it a four.

Returned from Gabala, overall impressions are good, but without the wow-effect, honestly, I expected more from nature, though the mountains around are stunning, especially when you look at them from the chairlift, wind in your face and you're like in another world. The hotel was clean and the staff friendly, but the food was monotonous, by the second day the national cuisine got boring (though plov and dolma were divine), the city is noisy and everything is under construction everywhere, but that even adds its own kind of charm, yet the ancient fortress and the local market with white mulberry jam stood out the most, I came back happy and with suitcases full of sweets)

Буындарды емдету керек болды, сондықтан бүкіл отбасымызбен Нафталанға ұштық, жалпы олардың мұнайын бұрыннан көргіміз келген. Қалашық кішкентай, турасын айтқанда, Алматыдан келген турист үшін онда бәрі тым қарапайым, бірақ процедураларды он күнге алдық. Санаторий қалыпты тиді, кіре бергенде бәрін ұйымшылдықпен рәсімдеді, ешқандай жанжалсыз (дегенмен медицинаға байланысты маған танысым да іленіп еді, сол бізді осы сапарға итермелеген). Мұнайдың өзі — айналаның бәрін аңқып тұрады, бірақ иіске үйренесің, анау шұңқырда жатып мәңгілік туралы ойлайсың, олар сені жылытып жатқанда. Дәрігерлер қайда баруды, не істеуді түсіндірді, «администратордан сұраңыз» демеді — бәрі нақты болды. Бос уақытта серуендеуге еш жер жоқ, тек базарды жиырма минутта аралап шығар едім, әрі-бері. Қайтқанда тым супер-жасарғандай емес, бірақ тіземдегі ауырсыну қолмен көтергендей басылды, сондықтан осы әсер үшін күнделікті ұсақ-түйек кемшіліктерін кешіремін, берік үштік, бірақ өз мақсатым үшін сапар жұмыс істеді.

I was booking a tour to Azerbaijan, Baku at an agency, because I needed a package with flights, and I’m afraid to mess up with connections and visa myself. Flew in great in the end, all documents were sorted without any hangups, they even didn’t get my surname wrong at the hotel — a small thing, but nice. The whole trip was packed, we walked the old city, touched those ancient walls with our hands, and of course we stopped by for a pomegranate wine tasting, it was cool there. The guide told how oil used to be extracted, and even set the ground on fire near the Maiden Tower to show the gas burning, it was mesmerizing. Came back satisfied, the tan’s still holding, and there’s nothing for me to regret. I can’t fault the people for anything — all attention was on us, ready to help at any moment)(.

I took the tour from the agency I liked last time, never expected such a gift from them. This Azerbaijan of theirs completely flipped my idea of the region — so many routes and everything prepared for us. I felt like a researcher myself, though we just walked the little streets of Icheri Sheher and touched the ancient walls with our hands. The weather in February was strangely warm, even oddly so, like we didn’t run away from winter but into somewhere mid-April and everything’s blooming. The organisation is so smooth that I forgot about checking the time and relaxed - for the first time in years I truly rebooted thanks to their tasty, packed plan. Next year I’m going to them again, this time definitely to the mountains, though the local tea with jam just won’t leave my head)).