Private Tour: Garni - Geghard - Azat canyon - Khor Virap
This is my unique author's excursion through the history and culture of my ancient country.
Included
- Guide
- Meals: Lunch
- Entrance fee
- Driver-guide: Car
Highlights:
- See Ararat from Charents Arch
- Enjoy ancient Garni Pagan Temple
- Discover Stone Symphony
- Visit Geghard Spear monastery and Khor Virap
- Lavash baking master class
Includes:
- Pick-up and drop off from Yerevan hotels
- Driver(guide)
- Private a/c vehicle
- Entrance fee
- Lunch
We will head to North-east and stop at the Arch of Charents, dedicated to a famous Armenian writer and to admire unforgettable view of Ararat mountain and valley. Next destination point is Garni pagan Temple, the only heathen time Temple in Lesser Caucasus. The village is the oldest inhabited settlement in the region. We will enjoy an Armenian flat bread Lavash baking master class and lunch. Geghard can be pronounced as a monastery of Holy Lance devoted to a Spear which had wounded Jesus Christ at the Crucifixion. Driving a little bit into the gorge we will stop at so called "Stone Symphony", a natural monument of hexagon basalt cliffs. Azat water reservoir is the next while driving to Khor Virap monastery and dungeon where Gregory the illuminator was imprisoned for 14 years forced to be the Patriarch of the first Christian country in the world.
