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Azerbaijan2 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.
- Length
- 2 days / 1 night
- Meeting point
- 08:00, Outside our office, 66 Nizami Street
- Back in Baku
- last day at 21:30
- Group
- 8 to 18 people
- Effort
- Moderate: a few hours on foot a day, stairs
- Guide’s languages
- Azerbaijani, Russian
About the tour
Sheki is 300 km from Baku, so we break the road with stops: the Friday Mosque in Shamakhi, the Diri Baba tomb set into the rock at Maraza, lunch in Ismayilli. The night is in the Upper Caravanserai, where the stone rooms that once held merchants are now hotel rooms. On Sunday we see the shebeke windows of the Khan’s Palace and the Albanian church in Kish, eat piti and buy halva.
What you will see
- The Khan’s Palace (1762): shebeke windows and wall paintings
- A night in the Upper Caravanserai
- The Albanian church in Kish
- Shamakhi’s Friday Mosque and the Diri Baba tomb on the way
Day by day
Day 1
Shamakhi, Diri Baba and the road to Sheki
We leave Baku at 08:00. Stops at the Friday Mosque in Shamakhi and the Diri Baba tomb of 1402 at Maraza. Lunch in Ismayilli. We reach Sheki around 17:00, check in at the caravanserai and go out for dinner in town.
Meals: lunch, dinnerNight: Upper Caravanserai, ShekiDay 2
The Khan’s Palace, Kish and piti
After breakfast, the Khan’s Palace and the old town, then the Albanian church in Kish village 5 km up the valley. Piti for lunch, then the halva market. We leave at 15:30 and are back on Nizami Street at 21:30.
Meals: breakfast, lunch
Included
- Minibus and guide for the whole trip
- 1 night in the Upper Caravanserai with breakfast
- 2 lunches and 1 dinner
- Tickets to the Khan’s Palace and the Kish church
Not included
- Drinks
- Halva and souvenirs
- A room of your own: +₼45
Hotels
The Upper Caravanserai, 18th century: stone rooms for two or three.
Documents
Your ID card, needed to check in at the hotel. Guests from abroad bring their passport.
Dates and prices
Per person sharing a double room. A child (2–11, in the parents’ room): −25%.
DepartureBackPriceSeats
- Sat 31 OctSun 1 Nov₼189Last 4 seatsGuaranteed
- Sat 7 NovSun 8 Nov₼189Last 2 seatsGuaranteed
- Sat 14 NovSun 15 Nov₼189Last 3 seatsGuaranteed
- Sat 21 NovSun 22 Nov₼189Last 4 seatsGuaranteed
- Sat 28 NovSun 29 Nov₼189Last 4 seatsGuaranteed
- Sat 5 DecSun 6 Dec₼1897 seats leftGuaranteed
- Sat 12 DecSun 13 Dec₼1898 seats leftGuaranteed
- Sat 19 DecSun 20 Dec₼1898 seats leftGuaranteed
Your guide
Elshan Bagirov
Founder and director
A guide since 1998, first on the Sheki and Quba roads, then in Georgia. He founded Səmt in 2012 and still travels every new route himself before a group does.
The teamFrom people who went
A night in the caravanserai is an experience of its own; the rooms were cool and clean. Elshan explained every painting in the Khan’s Palace. Special thanks for the piti.
Gunel M., BakuSheki: the Khan’s Palace and a night in a caravanserai, September 2026
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