The tour to Armenia for the New Year holidays is specially designed for the schedule of regular flights to Yerevan and Gyumri (the second largest city in Armenia after Yerevan). We offer an interesting New Year's tour to Armenia, where we will introduce you to all the beauties and attractions of the country.

Day 1: Arrival in Yerevan

• Arrival to «Zvartnots» International Airport. Our guide will meet you at the airport.
• Transfer to the hotel in Yerevan. Check-in is from 14:00. Free time.

Day 2: Yerevan City — tour — Hripsime — Echmiadzin — Yerevan

• Breakfast at the hotel.
• Panoramic tour round Yerevan city — the ancient capital of Armenia, which is 29 years older than Rome. Tour Itinerary: «Mother Armenia» monument offers a nice overview of the whole city, the Opera House, Republic  Square, «Cascade» architectural complex, the Museum of Contemporary Art named Cafesjian, the monument to the hero of «David Sasuntsi» Armenian epos.
• Trip to Echmiadzin town. Visiting the Church of St. Hripsime (7th century). The church was built in 618 on the site of an ancient pagan temple, where Saint Hripsime had been tortured and killed.
• Excursion to Echmiadzin Cathedral (4th century) — the center of Armenian Apostolic Church. This is one of the oldest Christian churches in the world, the residence of the Supreme Patriarch and Catholicos of all Armenians.
• Transfer to the hotel. Free time.

* If desired, we can organize a festive New Year’s Eve dinner with a show program for an additional payment.

 Day 3: Free day

• Breakfast at the hotel.
• Free time.

Day 4: Yerevan — Dilijan — Goshavank — Sevan — Yerevan

•  Breakfast at the hotel.
• A trip to the greenest part of Armenia – the city of  Dilijan , which is famous for its clean air and lush forests.
• A trip to Goshavank Monastery (12th century), which was one of the most famous religious and educational centers of medieval Armenia, where the great Armenian scientist, jurist and chronicler Mkhitar Gosh lived and worked for 25 years.
• Drive to Lake Sevan, which is the pearl of Armenia and the largest freshwater basin in Eurasia and the second largest Alpine lake in the world. Sevan is situated at an altitude of 1900 meters above sea level.
• Visit to Sevanavank Monastery (9th century).
• Return to Yerevan.
• Transfer to the hotel. Free time.

Day 5: Yerevan — Khor Virap — «Bird Cave» — wine tasting in the village «Areni» — Noravank — Yerevan

• Breakfast at the hotel.
• Tour to Khor Virap monastery (literally translated as «deep dungeon») (7 – 17th centuries). You will see the underground pit where the first Patriarch of Armenian Apostolic Church St. Grigor Lusavorich (Saint Gregory the Illuminator) languished in prison for 13 years. The monastery is located 50 km away from Yerevan on the Armenian – Turkish border. You will enjoy the wonderful view of the Biblical Mount Ararat.
• A trip to the karst caves in Areni, also known as the «Bird’s Cave», where a 5500 year-old leather shoe was found.
• Lunch in the village of Areni, where wines are produced from local grape varieties (wine tasting).
• Trip to Noravank monastery (9 – 13th centuries) is one of the most magnificent medieval monuments of Armenia, located on the ledge of narrow winding gorge with rare red rocks. This is truly a masterpiece of Armenian architecture.
• Return to Yerevan. Transfer to the hotel. Free time.

Day 6: Yerevan — Geghard — Garni — Demonstration baking «lavash» Symphony of Stones — Eastern Market — Vernissage

• Breakfast at the hotel.
• Visiting the monastery Geghard (12 – 13th centuries). It is a unique monastery complex, where the temple is completely carved in the rock. The name «Geghard» literally «the monastery of the spear» is due to the fact that in this place Christian relic — the spear, which, according to tradition, a Roman soldier had pierced the crucified Jesus with was kept (now kept in the Museum of Echmiadzin).
• Lunch at the restaurant above the gorge of the Azat river and demonstration baking «lavash» — traditional Armenian bread in the tonir (oven in the ground).
• Trip to Garni — Symphony of Armenian architecture. It is the only surviving pagan temple in Armenia. Built in the Hellenistic style in the 1st century by the Armenian King Trdat I and dedicated to the God of the Sun Mithras.
• Return to Yerevan.
• Visit Eastern market and fair «Vernissage», where you can buy souvenirs, gifts, jewelry and other handmade products from wood, stone, including precious, silver and other materials (full working days Saturday and Sunday).
• Transfer to the hotel. Free time.

Day 7: Transfer to the airport. Departure.
[Duration: 40 minutes / 25 km]

• Breakfast at the hotel. Check out from the hotel (12:00).
• Airport transfer. Departure.

Tour price from $ 655

Supplement for single occupancy from $ 179

The price is per person on basis of DBL/TWIN occupancy and includes all taxes and duties.

To find out the cost of the tour for groups of more than 6 people, Contact Us!

We can change the program and excursion objects and make a tour according to your desire, for any dates convenient for you and for any number of days. Just contact us by mail or phone.

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