Azerbaijan – is a country with rich and ancient history. Here in the stretch of the several millenniums rich cultural legacy entering to the world civilization treasury has been formed. According to the historians the first formation of Azerbaijan government was in the first millennium of B.C. Today Azerbaijan – is the government building democratic society in succession that aspires to the integration in the world economical system. And we must say that Azerbaijan has got all necessary conditions for this.
Azerbaijan is in the joint of the two continents – Europe and Asia. Occupying comparatively small territory Azerbaijan disposes unique natural-climatic properties. 9 climatic zones from 11 ones are represented in Azerbaijan: from subtropics to Alpine mountain meadows.
The biggest lake of the world – Caspian Sea is unique. As closed reservoir, Caspian Sea has got peculiar flora and fauna.
More than 1000 rivers flow along the territory of the country. The biggest river is – the Kura. Azerbaijan is famous for its mineral waters. More famous of them are Istisu, Turshsu, Badamli. The large sweet lakes are not available in Azerbaijan, but there are a lot of the small lakes – till 250.
There are more than 4200 kinds of plants in the republic. Some of them, such as Eldar’s pine-tree, silken acacia, iron tree are never met anywhere else. Mountain forests are attractive for rest and tourism. Azerbaijan fauna where more than 12000 kinds of birds and animals is very rich.
Beside diversified fauna and flora tourists can get acquainted with a lot of historical monuments related to various epochs. They are – petroglyphic pictures in Gobustan, dated in XII-X millenniums of B.C., monuments of Scythian culture (III-II millenniums of B.C.), monuments of Albanian culture (in IV century of B.C.-XII c.), historical monuments, related to Christianity and Moslem periods.
Our travel agency organizes various tours over Azerbaijan, over a lot of regions of the country. It could be only rest with visiting shops and restaurants, rest zones in mountains or on the shore of the Caspian Sea, organizing various entertainments. Otherwise it could be specialization tours for amateurs of history, ethnography, unmounted (treking) and equestrian excursion. Tours could be both team and individual. Here we suggest several tours. And we also can suggest tours according your requires.
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