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Baku

Azerbaijan · 16 quests

History

2 quests
Maiden Tower, Baku🇦🇿 Baku
Maiden Tower
Its first purpose is still unknown
Surakhani, Baku🇦🇿 Baku
Surakhani
An old tanker became a museum you can enter

Nature

3 quests
Dede Gorgud Park, Baku🇦🇿 Baku
Dede Gorgud Park
A city lake gives evening walks their center
Central Botanical Garden, Baku🇦🇿 Baku
Central Botanical Garden
Its paths rise through a large living plant collection
Highland Park, Baku🇦🇿 Baku
Highland Park
The bay opens out below white stone terraces

Art

5 quests
Miniature Books, Baku🇦🇿 Baku
Miniature Books
Some books here need a magnifying glass
Mini Venice, Baku🇦🇿 Baku
Mini Venice
Gondolas thread a tiny canal maze by the sea
Stone Chronicle, Baku🇦🇿 Baku
Stone Chronicle
Old oil buildings survive here as stone fragments
Heydar Aliyev Center, Baku🇦🇿 Baku
Heydar Aliyev Center
Its roof and walls flow into one white shell
Carpet Museum, Baku🇦🇿 Baku
Carpet Museum
Why does this building curl like a carpet?

Food

5 quests
Plov, Baku🇦🇿 Baku
Plov
The rice and its toppings arrive apart
Shah Plov, Baku🇦🇿 Baku
Shah Plov
Its rice arrives sealed inside a golden crust
Qutab, Baku🇦🇿 Baku
Qutab
Its thin fold can hide herbs, meat, or pumpkin
Dolma, Baku🇦🇿 Baku
Dolma
These vine leaves hide rice and minced meat
Tea and Pakhlava, Baku🇦🇿 Baku
Tea and Pakhlava
The tea glass narrows in the middle

Sport

1 quest
Baku Stadium, Baku🇦🇿 Baku
Baku Stadium
A European final ended with four goals

Azerbaijan

Photo quests in Baku

What the catalogue actually holds here, and which of it is worth rearranging a day around.

Baku holds 16 quests across five categories, with no single one of them defining the place: Art and Food are level at five quests each. The categories with nothing in Baku so far are Beach and Party.

Two of them are tier 1 — finds rather than fixtures, and the one tier whose check-in asks for PRO; the other 14 are open on any plan. Tier 3 covers eleven of them, which is the label for what a visitor would expect a travel app to have anyway.

Art covers the work and the building around it, so a mural on an ordinary street counts alongside the collection with a ticket desk. A food quest names the dish rather than the restaurant: the pin sits on the room that serves it, but what you are going for is the plate. Every check-in works the same way: the geotag your camera wrote into the photo has to land within 200 m of the quest's own point.

By category

Each of these opens the whole category across every city, with the Baku quests among them.

Tier 1

The unexpected ones

The two quests in Baku the catalogue files as finds rather than fixtures — the half of a city a guidebook has no room for.

Nearby

Cities near Baku

Ranked by distance rather than by border, because from here the next useful stop is often the one in the next country.

Questions

About quests in Baku

How many photo quests are there in Baku?
16, across five of the seven categories the catalogue uses. The deepest groups are Art (5), Food (5) and Nature (3). Nothing in Beach and Party here yet — a category appears in a city the moment a quest is published into it, so the gaps move. Among them: Maiden Tower, Dede Gorgud Park and Miniature Books.
What is there to do in Baku beyond the obvious?
2 of the 16 quests in Baku are tier 1, which is the catalogue's own mark for a find rather than a landmark: the pipeline that writes it is told that tier 3 is "everything a visitor would expect a travel app to have", and that tiers 1 and 2 are "only the unexpected finds". Baku holds two at tier 1, three at tier 2 and 11 at tier 3. The tier 1 quests here are Miniature Books and Mini Venice, which fall under Art.
Can you do all the Baku quests on one trip?
Most of them, with transport. The outermost of the 16 is 10.0 km from the middle of the Baku list, so the cluster in the middle is an afternoon and the edges are a bus or a taxi each.
Which Baku quests can you do for free?
14 of the 16 can be checked in on the free plan, and all 16 can be read and travelled to without paying anything — the catalogue is open signed out, on every plan. PRO covers the check-in on the hardest tier, which in Baku means two quests: Miniature Books and Mini Venice.
How do I prove I visited a place in Baku?
Take the photo at the place and upload it. Your browser reads the location the camera wrote into that file and measures it against the quest's own coordinates; inside 200 m the check-in counts. The distance is measured to the point, not to the city: being in Baku is not what is checked, and a photo taken across town from Maiden Tower fails exactly the way one taken at home does. A file with no location in it cannot be checked at all, and a photo that has been through a messaging app usually arrives that way — upload the original out of the camera roll rather than a copy someone sent back to you. The Food quests in Baku sit on the room where the dish is served rather than on the dish, so that address is what the 200 m is measured from.