Baku Walking Tour: Old City & Modern Baku

Explore Baku's Old City and modern districts on a guided walking tour with a Caspian Sea boat ride and expert multilingual guide.

Getting started

Meet your expert multilingual guide at the Double Gates (Gosha Gala Gapisi), the main entrance to Baku's UNESCO-listed Old City, Icherisheher. After a short introduction to the route, you begin your guided walking tour through main city attractions. The pace is relaxed, with time to move from the Old City streets toward the modern districts before continuing to the waterfront.

What to expect

Icherisheher UNESCO World Heritage sites

Icherisheher is Baku's UNESCO-listed Old City, where preserved walls and narrow lanes showcase the city's historic core.

Features

• Walk through Icherisheher UNESCO World Heritage sites as part of a guided walking tour through main attractions, seeing how the original city layout contrasts with the surrounding developments.
• Your professional multilingual guide leads the tour and shares context at key stops, so you can follow the route comfortably without worrying about navigation.
• As you explore, you move from the Old City toward nearby historic and modern districts, setting up the contrast that defines this experience.

Historic and modern districts

Beyond the walls, Baku's historic and modern districts present a mix of older neighborhoods and newer cityscapes.

Features

• Tour the historic and modern districts to see how traditional architecture sits alongside newer developments, capturing professional photos at iconic landmarks along the way.
• The guided walking tour through main city attractions keeps you on a clear route, linking these districts so you experience them as a single, continuous city story.
• With an expert multilingual guide, you can ask questions in your preferred language and understand how these districts relate to Icherisheher and the seafront.

Highland Park viewpoint

Highland Park is a high vantage point that looks across the city and the Caspian Sea.

Features

• Visit the Highland Park viewpoint to enjoy panoramic city views, including the curve of the bay and the outline of central Baku below.
• This stop in the route highlights how the Old City, historic and modern districts, and waterfront fit together, helping you orient everything you have seen on foot.

Caspian Sea boat ride

The tour continues to the waterfront for time on the Caspian Sea.

Features

• Relax with a Caspian Sea boat ride that lets you view Baku from the water, adding a different angle to the streets and Highland Park viewpoint you visited earlier.
• From the deck you can capture professional photos at iconic landmarks along the shoreline, seeing both Old City silhouettes and modern structures from a distance.