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Sheki - small, historical and cultural city of Azerbaijan 2 days, 1 night tour
Duration
2 days
Overview
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Sheki is a small and beautiful town of Azerbaijan. It is surrounded with green nature and mountains. Sheki is well known also with its cuisine, sweeties and humour stories. You will love to talk with Sheki citizens.
Shaki is surrounded by snowy peaks of the Greater Caucasus, which in some places reaches 3000–3600 m. Shaki's climate includes a range of cyclones and anticyclones, air masses and local winds. The average annual temperature in Shaki is 12 °C. In June and August, average temperature varies between 20 and 25 °C.
The mountain forests around the area prevent the city from floods and overheating of the area during summer. The main rivers of the city are the Kish and Gurjhana. During the Soviet rule of Azerbaijan, many ascended to Shaki to bathe in its prestigious mineral springs.