EXCURSION TO QOBUSTAN

   Ethnical tour to Gobustan. Gobustan is a historical place with rock paintings and mud volcanoes, included in the list UNESCO’s culturalheritage.This is one of the momemorable sights of Azerbaijan. Beginning tourists traditionally from volcanoes – it’s very exotical spectacle. Mud is mixed with water and oil here.Along with fairly large, there are also very miniature volcanoes, the size of a puddle.Looking at the Martian landscape, tourists are sent to the rock paintings. The petroglyphs in this areawere created from the primitive epoch and until the Middle Ages.Today there are about 6 thousand drawings: animals and people, hunting scenes and inscriptions. One of the most noteworthy inscriptions is Roman Legionnaires, wandered here in the 1st century AD.The plot of the drawings uncomplicated: life and economic life, magical and totemic representations of ancient people, scenes of hunting and fishing, images of men and women, wild animals.”Raisins” of the Gobustan collections – a hero figure of a reaper with a sickle,dancing little men, boats with oarsmen. Special attention is paid to the stone slab with a Latin inscription, that at the foot of the Boyukdash mountain. The inscription left here refers to approximately to 84-96 B.C, and its author is the Roman legionary of the emperor Domitian from the Fulminata legion.Fans of ethnography will certainly expand their horizons and get a lot information.Traveling to this amazing land Azerbaijan,very is rich in history about the ancient settlers of our planet.