These are huge rock structures with many petroglyphs by ancient Homo sapiens.

One of the most active mud volcanoes in Azerbaijan. The last eruption was in 2017.

The black mountains there is called Qara Dag (I think the roots of the words are Turkish). If you carefully notice the water off the road, you will see the white marks on the banks. This is all salt. This whole area was submerged under ocean water in prehistoric times.

There are oil rigs right in the middle of the city. Some of them seemed almost like in the middle of somebody’s gardens. I did not realize the history of oil production and Azerbaijan. The very first industrial oil rig was here in Baku! We will see it later this evening. Around the turn of the last century, Azerbaijan produced more crude than the rest of the world combined!!

In the distance, one can see the Bibiheyat Mosque. We will visit it on our way back.

It looked really cool!