Ateshgah & Yanardag Tour
50% Discount

One of the world’s only still-burning fire temples, Ateshgah – The Temple of Eternal Fire – has been a religious site revered by Hindus and Zoroastrians from around the first century AD, or even earlier. Flames still burn in its magical central hearth-altar which was rebuilt in the 17th-18th century with side flues and sone inscriptions. That’s set in a fortified pentagonal courtyard around which former pilgrim cells are built into the impressively fortified surrounding walls, now forming a fascinating museum. The complex is located 30 km from Baku on the outskirts of Surakhani, an overgrown village of the Absheron Peninsula.

Ateshgah tours commonly make an additional visit to Yanardag, another curious fire phenomenon where burning natural gas blazes continuously on a hillside near Digah. No wonder Azerbaijan has become known as the “Land of Fire”.

Practical information:

Official group tours organized by Baku Tourism Information Center

Duration: 4h

Departures: every day at 15:00

Tour includes:

Transport

Entrance ticket to the reserves

Fast-track entrance

Tour guide service

Bottled water

Normal price: 25 AZN per person

Price with BakuCard: 20 AZN per person