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Guba and Khinaliq Village Tour including Homemade Lunch

Name: Guba and Khinaliq Village Tour including Homemade Lunch
Brand: Baku City Tours
SKU: 90200P14
Price: 75.72 USD
Rating: 5.0 (196 reviews)

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From $75.72

Price varies by group size

Select Date and Travelers

up to 24 hours before the experience starts (local time)

10 hours (approx.)
Pickup offered
Mobile ticket
Offered in: English

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Overview

Visit Quba and the remote mountain village of Khinalig on this group tour from Baku. Introducing you to the surreal landscapes of the Khizi region in northeastern Azerbaijan, the tour starts with a drive through the mountains past the city of Sumgait on your way to Quba city. Refuel with a traditional lunch in the forests, then head high into the hills to visit mysterious Khinalig, which is said to be the highest inhabited village in the Caucasus region.

Relax on a day trip where your national park fees are paid in advance
Bring a camera to snap photos of the striking red rock landscape of Khizi
Savor typical Azerbaijani cuisine at a restaurant in the Qechresh forest
Stop to sip tea and try local sweets on your way to the village of Khinalig

What's Included

Professional guide
Hotel pickup and drop-off (if option selected)
Lunch
Air-conditioned vehicle

Personal Expenses

Meeting and Pickup

You can head directly to the meeting point, or request pickup

Meeting point

Gala Gapisi
CRF9+CMH, Cavadxan, Bakı, Azerbaijan
Our guide will be waiting in front of Double Gates which is the main entrance of the old city.

Pickup points

Select a pickup point

Start time

09:00 AM

End point

This activity ends back at the meeting point.

What To Expect

Additional Info

Confirmation will be received at time of booking
Not wheelchair accessible
Khinalig village can be exclude from the tour if there will be heavily snowing or raining
Service animals allowed
Near public transportation

Infants must sit on laps
Infant seats available
No heart problems or other serious medical conditions
Most travelers can participate
This tour/activity will have a maximum of 13 travelers

Cancellation Policy

You can cancel up to 24 hours in advance of the experience for a full refund.

For a full refund, you must cancel at least 24 hours before the experience’s start time.
If you cancel less than 24 hours before the experience’s start time, the amount you paid will not be refunded.
Any changes made less than 24 hours before the experience’s start time will not be accepted.

Cut-off times are based on the experience’s local time.
This experience requires good weather. If it’s canceled due to poor weather, you’ll be offered a different date or a full refund.
This experience requires a minimum number of travelers. If it’s canceled because the minimum isn’t met, you’ll be offered a different date/experience or a full refund.

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Featured review

Alain_D

Nice trip with good driver and excellent English-spoken guide. Also very nice lunch stop with home-made food. We were lucky with the weather and had a very good view over the beautiful mountains between Azerbaijan and Daghestan

Reviews

5.0

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Poorly planned and executed. Please avoid.

jimish_t, May 2024

Very disappointed. Choose only if you want to spend 10 hours in car looking outside through closed window. Out of total 11 hours of trip, we spent 10 hours in car and only 1 hour in khinalique village. There were no stops for any other spots they have mentioned in itinerary. Tour guide barely guides or give insight into anything. They even did not stop for any beautiful spot to spend some time. Please avoid.

For the nature lovers

Felix_W, Apr 2024

Wonderful trip especially the nature on the way to the village! Our tour guide Narmin was well informed about the area, too. And that is not always a given.

Trip to Khinaliq

Martin_R, Mar 2024

Amazing road and great nature scenery. Local food at a remote village - I can only recommend this trip!

Great adventure

Milan_S, Mar 2024

A wild ride, a breathtaking scenery, a very nice driver and a great guide. Top that off with a very tasty and authentic homecooked meal and you've got yourself a great trip. Thank you!

Lovely 😍

Indu_r, Mar 2024

Our guide Ruslan was absolutely wonderful.. he could speak good English and provided us good information . Highlight was the village lunch ..what a heart warming hospitality .. the landscape and views were breathtaking. This tour is a must in Azerbaijan

Memorable one

Anton_A, Nov 2023

The guide did a fantastic job to make the trip memorable. Experiencing their culture and traditional food was a true experience

very good must take the tour

Nazeem_u, Oct 2023

Nice Guide, very nice location to visit. Lunch is good. The scenery is very good and worth visiting. I hope the tour operators use good vans instead of sprinters

Hiking visit with great lunch

syedaamna_m, Oct 2023

Very nice lunch and hospitality those who love hiking I advice chose this visiting site I feel little tried because I am not a hiking person but I enjoy a lot with my tour guide and group

Amazing landscape and company

Carlos_L, Apr 2023

The views of the mountains landscape are amazing and very snow all around. The home made lunch was deliciós and very complete. The driver and, Said, our guide was and excellent company and tell us much details about the culture and history of Azerbaijan. We recomended this tour, after visiting more 80 countries!

Beautiful mountain sceneries

Alain_D, Dec 2022

Awesome Tour

Muhammed_G, May 2022

Excellent tour.. Guide Alex is very excellent and super friendly and highly professional..highly recommended

A wonderful trip

Marcel_S, Jun 2021

We spent a wonderful day in Quba and Khinaliq. We had a safe trip and a delicious meal. The journey was long, but we know about it.

guba is a great pleace

Diana_G, Oct 2019

the tour was great although it was a long drive there and back. The guide was very nice but had never been there nor had he done his homework. Fortunately the driver was able to say "waterfall" or similar for a reason for a stop.. Guba is really worth going too. The vehicle was very comfortable. The lunch in a private home was great.

Response from Host, Apr 2022

Dear Guest, Thank you for your feedback, much appreciated! First of all, thank you for choosing Baku City Tours as your travel company. This bad experienced very first times when we started to organize our tour. Now we have changed whole staff and customized our route without many steps. Our new staff is highly trained and oriented towards fluently in English and knowledgeable about history and culture of our country. You can also see I from our reviews in last 6 months. We are looking forward to see you in Azerbaijan and I could offer you free city tour as a compensation for your bad experience.

Long uncomfortable drive

GOPALAKRISHNAN_V, Sep 2019

Slow start where the guide and bus arrived late. Cramped minibus. Finally reached destination at 2 pm. Khinaliq itself had little to show, though mountains were beautiful. Returned to Baku 4 hours later than planned.

Response from Host, Apr 2022

terrible guide and driver, possible scammers.

Moaath_A, Sep 2019

- many many many times during the trip, both the guide and the driver were talking to us about how terrible this trip is and how much better is their Gabala trip. They then of course start to hammer us about when do we want to go with them to Gabal and how much is it going to cost. - during the very long trip, we did not stop in any worthy location. The only stop was in Khinaliq. - the lunch was NOT in the forest as they claimed, it was in Khinaliq. - once we were off at our hotel, the driver and the guide started to bother us again through Whatsapp regarding when are we going to go to Gabala. - The guide did not provide any worthy information about Guba, Khinaliq or any other place. The only thing the driver and the guide talked about is how bad Guba is !! (this is of course to sell us the Gabala Trip) . - In case they wanted to take a selfie with you, be careful, they will post it to Snap chat without your consent.

Response from Host, Apr 2022

Lovely day in the mountains

Lama_K, Aug 2019

We had a wonderful time. The fresh breeze from the mountains was all we needed. The hospitality of the people was great. Simply wonderful

Tour guide changed my mind

davidheyman, Jun 2019

I wasn't going to give this a good review... Arif from Baku Tours arranged the trip. Start planned for 9:00. Team turns up at 10:27am, which messed up our schedule. The carefully discussed and promised booster seats for the kids were of course missing. Conclusion at 10:27am: This was a mistake, but luckily Arif sent two young guys instead: Ali and Farid, guide and driver. For the rest of the day both worked hard at making up for the bad start. They went out of their way to give us a really genuine Azerbaijan experience, made sure we didnt have to pay for anything extra and Ali was exceptionally good and patient with our young kids 5+7. We had a nice home cooked lunch in Khinaliq, bought locally produced honey and they even went to buy Pizza for our boys in the evening. Overall a great day. Be sure to request Ali and Farid

Simply perfect

Dennis_N, May 2024

Eine extrem gute Tour. Ich bin Hobbyfotograf und der Guide dieser Tour hat mir wirklich jeden Wunsch den ich auf dieser Tour nur haben könnte von den Lippen abgelesen. Egal was für Konkurrenz es gibt, hier ist man am besten dran: man sieht teilweise mehr als angegeben, isst sehr lecker und erfährt sehr viel auf bestem Englisch. For all English-Speaking people: Just book your Tour Here!

Der Guide hat sehr gutes...

Jenny_S, Aug 2022

Der Guide hat sehr gutes Englisch und Russisch gesprochen. Vor der Tour wurde man auf WhatsApp angeschrieben. Hier konnten letzte Fragen, z. B. zum Wetter in den Bergen, schnell geklärt werden. An allen wichtigen Aussichtspunkten wurde angehalten und zu spektakulären Fotos animiert. Wir waren sehr zufrieden mit der Tour. Sie hat all unsere Wünsche und Erwartungen erfüllt. Das Essen im 350 Jahre alten Dorfhaus war sehr lecker, die Einheimischen super gastfreundlich und humorvoll.

Response from Host, Aug 2022

It is our pleasure to hear your valuable feedback.