Mud volcanoes Azerbaijan Baku

In this article, the team of the car rental company in Baku Karavan Car Hire in Baku wants to introduce you to another amazing find in Azerbaijan, namely mud volcanoes. Quite an interesting and unusual creation of nature, which will not leave indifferent any tourist visiting Azerbaijan. Most of the active and dormant volcanoes are located south of the capital Baku in Gobustan and its environs, and there are about 700 volcanoes, 300 of which are active.

Volcanoes in themselves, no matter how strange it may be, basically do not carry any danger and many of them do not even reach human height. All that they spew, as you understood from the name, is just dirt. The eruption occurs through the accumulation of gases. By decree of the President of the Republic of Azerbaijan in 2007, it was decided to create a nature reserve, on the territory of which any construction work is strictly prohibited, and various information plates with the description and status of the volcano are installed on the territory of active volcanoes. From the distant 1810 to the present day, 50 volcanoes erupted 200 times. In the south of Gobustan, you can admire and enjoy the beauty of the Toragay volcano. It is this volcano that is in the Guinness Book of Records as the tallest mud volcano in the world. Its height reaches 400 meters, and the largest volcano in the Gobustan reserve is the Kanizadag volcano.

For a convenient, comfortable and safe journey to the territory of the Gobustan Nature Reserve, the Karavan Rent A Car in Baku company recommends renting crossovers or off-road vehicles whose ground clearance is much higher than that of sedans, since in the territory where mud volcanoes are located, the roadway does not have asphalt cover.