This is a walking tour to discover the reflection of Baku’s past and hear about oil barons of the first oil boom era and their quest for personal glory and fame. The tour offers insider’s guide to urban exploration about social, cultural, political aspect of every-day life in Baku with background of stories based on real life of oil barons from late 19th and early 20th century as well as soviet and modern times.
The tour highlights how oil changed Baku as as the new generation of the first era of oil boom assumed their social responsibility for a change in an oriental conventional Muslim society. You will hear stories about Azerbaijan’s dilemma of East vs. West, oil barons’ hunger for personal glory and fame, Influence of Polish architects, change and continuity through times under imperial Russia, Soviet and Independent Azerbaijan.
Elnur is a qualified tour guide who studied at Azerbaijan Tourism and Management University. He offers both walking tours and driving tours to the city’s most popular and historic sites, national parks, and museums. Depending on your interest, whether it be food, architecture, or history, Elnur has both day and multiple day tours to give you a great overview of the beautiful city.
This tour is great if you have limited time in Baku, but want to see all of the main sites and learn about Baku’s rich history. You will stop and visit the Baku Boulevard, old town, upland park, Heydar Aliyev cultural center, Fire Temple, and the Burning Mountain.
The main aim of the Baku City Tour is to show you all the important and dazzling sites and buildings of Baku and to create a nice luxury image of the city in your minds.The best tours take you to the winding streets of Baku, the capital of Azerbaijan.The tour will be very helpful for you to plan your stay in Baku more effectively. If you don’t know what to do on your visit to our country, check out the program itinerary.
This day trip takes you around the beautiful city of Guba to get a full experience of what the city has to offer. You will visit the Guba Carpet factory to see the women who make handmade carpets and the Qechresh forest for an amazing panoramic view . The last stop will be to the Red Village, also called the Jewish Settlement Area, which is believed to be the only completely Jewish town outside of Israel and the United States. Here, you will have the opportunity to learn all about the “Mountain Jews” and their incredible history that dates back to the 18th century.
Qala Divari is a unique restaurant in the old city of Baku. They serve a delicious mix of European and Middle Eastern food from kabab and shakshuka to dumplings and Qutab. Don’t forget to try their homemade Turkish tea and pop in on a night when they’re playing traditional music, live!
The Renaissance Palace Baku has 60 luxury rooms and suites, all decorated with a European theme. Each room comes with an air conditioning unit, high-speed Internet access, cable TV, a safe and a minibar.
The same spirit that made Amsterdam a center of Jewish life centuries ago makes it a delightful destination today.
There is one connection between the Netherlands’ “coffee shops,” where cannabis is sold legally, and the remarkable Jewish community that used to exist in Amsterdam — the relaxed attitude of openness that dominates this beautiful city.
The historian Simon Schama portrays Amsterdam, where Jews first settled in the 16th century, as an exceptional case of tolerance in an otherwise-hostile Christian Europe. “There was no Amsterdam Ghetto, no yellow badge, horned-hat or lock-up curfew behind gates,” he wrote.
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Baku’s only kosher restaurant. Serves a combination of Israeli and local cuisines.
Eliezer Ben Yehuda is known as the father of spoken Hebrew. He came to Palestine in 1881 with a dream to recreate Hebrew as a spoken language, a language which had not been spoken in almost 2,000 years. Every year on the birthday, Israel celebrates Hebrew Language Day to remember Eliezer and his dream to bring the Hebrew language to the Jewish nation.
The Hebrew language remains a fundamental element for Israel society, which unites people from around the world who make Aliyah to the Land of Israel. Even though Eliezer died in 1922 many years before Israel’s Independence, his dream came true and today Hebrew is the official language in the modern State of Israel.
