{"id":562,"date":"2014-03-23T06:22:44","date_gmt":"2014-03-23T04:22:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ants-in-pants.com\/?p=562"},"modified":"2018-01-02T14:06:52","modified_gmt":"2018-01-02T12:06:52","slug":"baku-side-trips-gobustan-and-mud-volcanoes-azerbaijan-intermediate-level","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ants-in-pants.com\/en\/blog\/baku-side-trips-gobustan-and-mud-volcanoes-azerbaijan-intermediate-level\/","title":{"rendered":"Baku side trips: Gobustan and mud volcanoes (Azerbaijan, intermediate level)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u00a0\u00a0Early in the morning, we departed from Baku where we spent our first day<\/a><\/em><\/strong> in Azerbaijan for Gobustan to see a Unesco World Heritage Site \u2013 national park famous for its Rock Art and nearby mud volcanoes. First you have to reach the bus station at the 20th of January street<\/em> (by marshrutka nr. 29). Then take a bus to Gobustan and ask the bus driver to stop you there; this trip takes less than an hour. The bus stops in the middle of nowhere, but you will be immediately met by numerous taxi drivers. Our taxi driver wanted 45 manats to get us to both Gobustan and volcanoes, but we bargained it to 25 (how na\u00efve we were!). Unfortunately, taxi is the only way to get to the destination. You might try to get to Gobustan by hitch-hiking, but don\u2019t hope to get to mud volcanoes in such a way, there is hardly any road and these are only tourists who go there.<\/p>\n

Some people go on foot, but it will take several hours: consider the heat!<\/p>\n

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There had been signs \u201cDanger\u201d next to volcanoes before, but the taxi drivers got rid of them not to scare tourists. Don\u2019t come up to the craters: some people fell down and drowned there. You won\u2019t find anybody around, only desert.
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Average volcano:
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The mud gurgles actively, and, as the taxi driver said, in winter it is especially dangerous.
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