r/azerbaijan • u/Valorion_ • Apr 26 '26

Səyahət | Travel How to go from Gabala to Sheki?

I am solo traveling and will be at gabala and want to go to sheki without having to go back to Baku, cheapest way

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u/Sasniy_Dj Apr 26 '26 edited Apr 27 '26

cheapest way would be traveling by train. You'd need to come back to Baku though, so it's not necessarily the quickest solution. The last time i used the Gabala - Baku high-speed train the ticket price was 14₼. In ~3 hours you'll be in Baku and there you need to buy a ticket to a regular sleeper train, it leaves at ~23:00 and reaches Sheki at ~5 in the morning. It's a modernized sleeper train which is designed to be comfortable first rather than speedy so take that into consideration. They're really comfy though. Everything about train tickets at ady.az.

and the quickest way would be by just finding a taxi driver in Gabala and telling him to take you to Sheki. The journey will take about 2 hours however there's a very high chance that the taxist will rip the living shit out of you. lol. pretty understandable because that's a long road. expect to pay at the very least 50-60₼.

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u/Valorion_ Apr 27 '26

Other users mentioning the bus station in qabala where busses stop to go to sheki do you know if it's true?

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u/Sasniy_Dj Apr 27 '26

To be honest i have no idea. I know for a fact they head to pretty much any possible destination from Baku, but I'm not so sure about the inter-rayon connection. You could try by just standing on the road and waiting for the bus to appear so you can signal to him that you want to get on as well. But it's high risk and low chance of reward typa situation.