In October 2023, I had my first (and probably) only visit to this country and I took full advantage by visiting two UNESCO sites during my stay. I managed to keep the last day of my week free of meetings as I really wanted to go see life mud volcanoes.  So, on Friday we took a full day field trip to check out all the sites in the country.  The mud volcanoes are very close to the Gobustan UNESCO site and most people probably come on this trip to see them first.  To me the mud volcanoes were the more impressive site which should probably be on the geologic list of places to see around the world.  The Gobustan site was pretty impressive as well.  The rock paintings that they have found here are from Neolithic age and show people have been living in this part of the world for a long time.  There was a good part of the exhibition that shows the linkages between this site and other similar sites that I have visited like the one in France and the ones in Norway.  Afterwards whole generations have lived and visited here including the Romans.  The site and museum are very nicely done and organized with well markings and a good overview talking about the religions, geology etc. 

This site is on par with the other Neolithic sites around the world and maybe even has more paintings over a wider area than some of the others.  However, this site is not very well known globally and as these people only left cave and dwelling paintings it is not as impressive as for example pyramids or other giant buildings.  I would not have visited if I did not already had a good reason to visit.  Flying to Baku is not that easy and probably expensive and not a place tourists quickly would visit, but once you are there, it is a well known and easy tour from Baku.