Absheron1 dayMinibus
Gobustan, mud volcanoes and the fires of Absheron
Baku’s surroundings in one day: rock carvings, bubbling mud, the fire temple and Yanardag.
Next departureSun 25 OctLast 3 seats
per personfrom ₼89
Group tours from Baku, with a guide beside you
12 tours, from a day at Gobustan to six days in Jordan. Pick a date and book your seat online; on tours abroad pay 30% now and the rest up to 21 days before departure.
Next departures
The nearest dates that still have seats. The numbers change as people book.
- 25OctSun₼89per person
- 29OctThu₼495per person
- 31OctSat₼169per person
- 31OctSat₼189per person
- 6NovFri₼549per person
- 7NovSat₼179per person
Our tours
Each tour has its own dates: weekend tours every Saturday, long trips once or twice a month.
Sheki2 days / 1 nightMinibus
Sheki: the Khan’s Palace and a night in a caravanserai
Shamakhi and Diri Baba on the way, a night in an 18th-century caravanserai, the Khan’s Palace and piti the next day.
Next departureSat 31 OctLast 4 seats
per personfrom ₼189
Quba, Qusar2 days / 1 nightMinibus
Quba, Khinalug and the Laza waterfalls
The Tangaalti canyon, a night in a village house above 2,300 metres and waterfalls at the foot of Shahdag.
Next departureSat 31 Oct5 seats left
per personfrom ₼169
Ismayilli, Gabala2 days / 1 nightMinibus
Lahij, Gabala and Lake Nohur
The coppersmiths’ village of Lahij, the Tufandag cable car, Lake Nohur and the Seven Beauties waterfall.
Next departureSat 7 Nov6 seats left
per personfrom ₼179
Nakhchivan3 days / 2 nightsFlight
Nakhchivan: Momine Khatun, Alinja fortress and Duzdag
Three days by air: Ajami Nakhchivani’s tomb, a fortress on a mountain top, a cave shrine and a salt mine.
Next departureFri 6 Nov5 seats left
per personfrom ₼549
Qusar, Shahdag2 days / 1 nightMinibus
A ski weekend at Shahdag
Every Saturday from December to March: the drive, a hotel at the resort and two days on the slopes.
Next departureSat 5 Dec7 seats left
per personfrom ₼239
Destinations and visas
Where you need a visa and where you don’t: for citizens of Azerbaijan, October 2026.
- AzerbaijanAround Baku, Sheki, Quba, Gabala, Nakhchivan and ShahdagNot needed6 tours
GeorgiaTbilisi and Mtskheta by the night trainNot needed1 tour
TürkiyeIstanbul and CappadociaNot needed, up to 90 days1 tour
UzbekistanTashkent, Samarkand and BukharaNot needed1 tour
UAEDubai and Abu DhabiNot needed, up to 90 days1 tour
JordanPetra, Wadi Rum and the Dead SeaIssued at the border1 tour
ItalyMilan, Lake Como, Florence and VeniceSchengen visa, €351 tour
What happens after you book
The day you book
You pay by card: the full price for tours in Azerbaijan, 30% or the full price for tours abroad. The booking number and confirmation come by e-mail.
21 days before departure
The rest is due for tours abroad. You pay by card on the “My booking” page; a reminder also comes by SMS.
3 days before departure
The guide opens a WhatsApp group: the meeting point, the hotels, what to bring, the weather. Tickets and insurance for tours abroad arrive by e-mail.
Departure day
The guide calls an hour before the meeting time. Running late? Write to them: the bus waits 15 minutes.
Our guides have walked the road themselves
Səmt was founded in 2012 by Elshan Bagirov, a guide on the Sheki and Quba roads since 1998. We now have six guides and work with licensed local guides abroad. We travel every new route ourselves before a group does.
In 2025 we took 4,860 travellers on 312 departures; 41% of them had been with us before. A group is never more than 20 people, 16 on mountain tours.
Leyla HasanovaGuide: Georgia and Türkiye
Ramil GasimovMountain guide: Quba, Gabala, Shahdag
Tural RzayevTour leader: Uzbekistan, Jordan, Italy
What travellers write
Our first time by train, and we don’t want the plane again: on board in the evening, in Tbilisi by morning. Leyla had explained the border in advance; the check took 40 minutes.
Kamran and Aytan, SumgaitTbilisi by the night train, July 2026 The village house in Khinalug is simple, but dinner was the best of the trip. The walk at Laza is tiring; Ramil stopped every half hour. Nights are cold even in August, bring something warm.
Rauf A., BakuQuba, Khinalug and the Laza waterfalls, August 2026 Giving Petra a whole day was right: we climbed to the Monastery without rushing. The night in the Wadi Rum tent was cold, and they brought blankets. With the Jordan Pass we paid nothing at the border.
Tamerlan G., BakuJordan: Petra, Wadi Rum and the Dead Sea, March 2026
From the journal
· 4 min read
The Baku–Tbilisi night train is back: what to know
After six years the train came back on 26 May 2026. The timetable, the cars, tickets and the border.
· 3 min read
When to go to Khinalug and what to bring
The season, the road and how to behave in the village, from our mountain guide Ramil Gasimov.
· 3 min read
To Türkiye with an ID card: who can and how
Since 2021 you can travel without a passport, on three conditions.
Your own dates, your own group
We run any tour separately for a family, a group of friends or a company: from 6 people, on the date you want. Company trips come with an invoice and VAT.