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Northern Armenia
offered by supplier M18454 (view this supplier profile)
Key Information:
Tour Duration: 15
day(s)
Group Size: 5
- 50
people
Destination(s):
Armenia
Specialty Categories:
Cultural Journey
Season: January - December
Airfare Included: No
Tour Customizable: No
Minimum Per Person Price: 650 Euro (EUR)
Maximum Per Person Price: 1100 Euro (EUR)
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Tour Itinerary:
Day 1: Arrival and accommodation.
Day 2: Breakfast. Trip to Garni and Geghard. Garni is the temple of Sun, built in the first century, A.D. You will walk along the canyon, by the beautiful columnar basalt and the stone bridge of the 9th century over the Azat River. Geghard is the monastery of the 11th-13th centuries. You will see cave-monastery, cave-dwellings and a beautiful landscape, have box lunch at the bank of the river.
Trip to Yerevan. You will visit: Victory Park, Tsitsernakaberd, Genocide Museum, Park after Komitas, Pantheon, Theater Square, Opera. You will see Komitas, Saryan, Sayat-Nova and Tamanyan monuments, Matenadaran and State University. You will walk along the boulevard to the Vardan Mamikonyan Square and the Republic Square. You will visit the winery and the brandy factory, see the Hrazdan canyon and cross the Kievyan and New bridge. Various activities after dinner (disco, theater, cinema, etc.).
Day 3: Breakfast. Trip to Echmiadzin. You will visit the Cathedral, the Cathedral museum, the St. Gayane Church, the St. Hripsime Church, the Metsamor – Armenian ancient history museum, and Sardarapat. Lunch in a museum restaurant. After lunch you will also visit the Ethnographic and Folklore Museum and Zvartnots museum. After dinner in Yerevan you can go to disco, cinema, theater, etc.
Day 4: Breakfast. Trip to lake Sevan. You will visit the Airivank medieval temple, see the army chapel and Noraduz khachqars. You will have lunch with Sevan’s white-fish, take a bathe in Sevan and, on demand, have a trip on yacht or boat. Dinner and accommodation in a local hotel.
Day 5: Early breakfast. Trip to Dilijan. Accommodation in a rest house. You will visit the Aghartsin canyon and the medieval monastery complex Aghartsin. You will also travel to mountainous lake Parzlich and have lunch in a tavern at the bank of the lake. You will visit Goshavank, see the medieval Christian monument and Mhitar Gosh's tomb.
Day 6: Breakfast. Trip to Agstef River canyon. You will pass ethnographic villages Fioletovo and Lermontovo, inhabited by Molokan people (Mormons). You will travel to Vanadzor town and after a box lunch in the Debet River canyon you will visit Alaverdi town. You will also visit Sanain, the monastery complex of the 10th-13th cent., the medieval fortress Kayan of the 9th cent. and Ahpat of the 10th cent. You will have dinner and spend the night in farmers’ houses in a 17 centuries old mountainous Armenian village Haghpat.
Day 7: Breakfast. Trip to Shnokh village, one of the most interesting and largest ethnographic villages of Armenia. People living here still use traditional terraced agriculture, national ways of agricultural products treatment, popular crafts. You will have lunch in a mountain forest on the bank of the stream near the church of the 6th century. After the lunch you will travel to Odzun village and visit the monastery complex of the 5th-13th centuries. You will have a walk on mountains with alpine flora and be present at the traditional Armenian repast in a villager’s house. Dinner and accommodation in Stepanavan.
Day 8: Breakfast. Excursion around Stepanavan. You will see the Dzoraget River canyon, architectural monuments of Stepanavan and the medieval fortress Loriberd of the 7th-13th cent. You will have lunch inside the fortress and return to the excursion center.
Day 9: Breakfast. Trip to Spitak, Raya-Taza (idolatry), Aparan reservoir. After lunch in Ashtarak you will see the medieval bridge over the Kasakh River, an ancient water-mill and churches of Ashtarak. You will camp in Tegher village and have dinner in a villeger’s house.
Day 10: Breakfast. Trip to Amberd fortress of the 7th cent. Camping and acclimatization.
Day 11: After breakfast you will continue your way up to Aragats Mountain. You will have box lunch at cattle-breeders’ camp and reach lake Qarilich, which is located at 3207 meters above the sea level. You will get acquainted with the Physics Institute, prepare dinner on the open fire and spend the night in tents or on the physicists’ base, depending on weather.
Day 12: After breakfast you will climb the southern pick of Aragats Mt., which is 3879m. above the sea level. Box lunch – Saghmosavan – Oghannavan – Yerevan. Free time and dinner in the evening.
Day 13: After breakfast trip to Tsakhkadzor. You will visit Kecharis church of the 12th-13th cent., get to the Alibek pick by the rope-way and foot, and see an amazing panorama of Aragats, Ararat and Araler mountain picks. After dinner in a local restaurant you will return to Yerevan.
Day 14: Free time. On your demand we can arrange the visit to National Gallery, Matenadaran, Historic Museum, Paradjanov's Museum and Erebuni fortress can be arranged. Grand dinner in the evening.
Day 15: Departure
Notes:
Airfare is not included in the tour price.
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