Baku to Gobustan: Mud Volcanoes, Fire Temple & Absheron Highlights (Full-Day)

The day begins on the Caspian coast, windows down, as Baku's city skyline fades and the flat, ochre expanse of the Absheron Peninsula slides into view. Within an hour the road narrows and the land acquires an older rhythm—salt-streaked fields, low stone fences, and the first distant mounds of the mud volcanoes, breathing faint steam into a pale sky. You step from the van and the earth seems to be alive: slow bubbles, warm mud oozing from sores in the ground, and a smell of mineral salt that tells you this is not ordinary soil.