• Meet your tour guide at a predecided location. Arrive in Yerevan. 

• Transfer to the selected hotel.

Overnight in Yerevan.

• Meet your tour guide and proceed to visit the following places:

  • Republic Square

  • Opera and Ballet building

  • The Parliament and Residency of the President of Armenia

  • State University

  • Mother Armenia Monument

  • Sports and Concert Complex

  • Tsitsernakaberd- a Monument dedicated to the Armenian Genocide Victims

  • Genocide Victims’ Museum commemorating the 1.5 million Armenians who perished during the first Genocide of the 20th century in Western Armenia and the territory of the Ottoman Empire

  • Cascade complex, which is considered to be the modern art centre of Yerevan

  • Open-air cafes surrounded by beautiful sculptures

  • Blue Mosque, which is situated in the heart of Yerevan city

Overnight in Yerevan.

• Drive to Tsaghkadzor (means “gorge of flowers”) town, the magical place of forested mountains. Take a short walking tour around the small town. Go up to the mountain peaks by ropeway, where you will catch an unforgettable gorgeous panoramic view of this part of the world.

• Visit Kecharis Monastery, a medieval Armenian monastic complex dating back to the 11th to 13th centuries. 

• Drive to Lake Sevan, one of the wonders in Armenia. This blue lake is one of the greatest high mountainous freshwater lakes of Eurasia. 

• Climb on Akhtamar peninsula from where opens a fascinating and breathtaking view on Sevan Lake. 

• Visit Sevanavank Monastery (9th century), which stands in its greatness on the peninsula, overlooking the lake for centuries. 

• Drive back to Yerevan. 

Overnight in Yerevan.

• Visit the only remaining pagan temple in Armenia devoted to the God of Sun – Myrth in Garni. 

• Make a photo stop at Charentc Arc. 

• See the ruins of Royal Palace and Royal Bath-House nearby.

Optional: Family hosted lunch in a private village house watching the preparation of “Lavash” (Armenian traditional flat-bread baked in the stone oven) by countryside Armenian ladies using the same ancient technology as hundreds of years before.

• Continue the tour to the uniquely caved Geghard Monastery, which dates back to the 12th-13th centuries.

• Drive back to Yerevan. 

Overnight in Yerevan.

• Visit the Armenian carpet factory with the possibility to watch the production of handmade rugs. The factory has a showroom where purchases are offered (shipping of rugs to your country is possible). 

• Proceed to Vernissage, an open-air exhibition market. 

• Drop to Dalma Garden or Yerevan Mall. Free time for shopping. 

Overnight in Yerevan.

Option 1: Yerevan - Etchmiadzin - Zvartnots - Yerevan

• Drive to Etchmiadzin City, which used to be the ancient capital of Armenia. 

• Visit Etchmiadzin Cathedral, which is the centre of the Armenian Apostolic Church founded in 301 A.D by St. Gregory the Illuminator.

• Proceed to the Zvartnots temple (641-661 BC), which got its name from the word 'Zvart', which, translated from Armenian, means 'joyful and beautiful'. 

• Drive back to Yerevan.

Option 2: Yerevan - Silk Road - Noravank - Tatev Monastery (ropeway)- Yerevan

• Drive to Noravank Monastery complex (13-14th century). 

• Proceed toTatev Monastery, located on the steep of deep gorge surrounded by extreme settings. It was built during the 9-13th centuries as an Armenian intellectual centre where philosophers, musicians, painters, calligraphers and monks lived. 

• Ride on the longest ropeway in the world (5.7 km) over the canyons to the monastery of Tatev. 

• Drive back to Yerevan.

Option 3: Yerevan - Ararat valley - Silk Road - Noravank - Yerevan

• Drive to Ararat valley and visit Khor Virap Church, one of the holy places for the Christian world from where opens the closest and the most spectacular view of the gorgeous biblical mountain Ararat, shining with its two white peaks. 

• Continue driving to Gnishik canyon.

• Drive through the spectacular canyon between the red rocks towards the Noravank Monastery complex (13-14th century). 

• Return to Yerevan.

• Check-out from the hotel. Transfer to Zvartnots International Airport.

Your sojourn comes to an end here.