2 Day Unique Tour to Tatev

Itinerary

Day 1: Khor Virap - Areni - Tatev - Goris

Stop At: Khor Virap, Artashat, Lusarat Armenia
Khor Virap is one of the most popular destinations in Armenia, because it is where St. Gregory the Illuminator was imprisoned for 13 years before curing King Trdat III of a disease. This caused the conversion of the king and Armenia into the first officially Christian nation in the world in the year 301.
Duration: 1 hour

Stop At: Areni Wine Factory, Areni Armenia
Founders Armen and Ashkhen will tell us about their wine factory and will allow us to taste different kinds of Armenian wine.
Duration: 1 hour

Stop At: Wings of Tatev, Halidzor Village, Halidzor Armenia
Wings of Tatev is a 5.7 km cableway between Halidzor and the Tatev monastery in Armenia. It is the longest reversible aerial tramway built in only one section, and holds the record for Longest non-stop double track cable car.
Duration: 30 minutes

Stop At: Tatev Monastery, Tatev Armenia
Tatev Monastery is a 9th-century Armenian Apostolic monastery located on a large basalt plateau.
The monastic ensemble stands on the edge of a deep gorge of the Vorotan River.
Duration: 1 hour

Stop At: Satanayi Kamurj (Satan's Bridge), Across the Vorotan River, Tatev Armenia
Located below Tatev Monastery, in the 500-meter gorge of the Vorotan River, is one of Armenia’s natural wonders – “Devil’s Bridge”. The width of this natural bridge is 60 m, the length 30 m.
Duration: 1 hour

No meals included on this day.
Accommodation included: Overnight at a guest house.

Day 2: Khndzoresk - Carahunge - Noravank - Bird Cave - Yerevan

Stop At: Khndzoresk Swinging Bridge, M12, Yerevan 0032 Armenia
Khndzoresk Bridge is 160-meter long bridge weighting 14 tons, connects the two banks of the village, Old and New Khndzoresk. Old Khndzoresk is famous as a cave settlement, where the village is located on both slopes of the mountain and inhabitant have used natural and artificial caves on those slopes as dwellings. The New Khndzoresk was built in the 1950s.
Duration: 1 hour

Stop At: Karahundj (Armenia's Stonehenge), Sisian Armenia
Carahunge is a prehistoric archaeological site, which is 3, 500 years older than England's Stonehenge and 3, 000 years older than the Egyptian pyramids.
It was created as an astronomical observatory marking the movement not only of the sun and moon, but also the stars.
Duration: 1 hour

Stop At: Noravank Monastery, Areni Armenia
Noravank is a 13th-century Armenian monastery, located in a narrow gorge made by the Amaghu River, near the town of Yeghegnadzor. The gorge is known for its tall, sheer, brick-red cliffs, directly across from the monastery.
Duration: 1 hour

Stop At: T'rchuneri (Bird) Cave, Highway, At the Entrance To Noravank Canyon, Areni Armenia
The excavation is located above the Arpa River, inside a Karst Cavern made from tens of thousands of years of mineral water dripping into limestone crevices.
It consists of three rooms or halls, the first two of which are connected by passageways. There are also niches and “basement” and “attic” floors opening upward and downward from the first room. The total area of the cave is about 500 square meters.
Duration: 1 hour

Meals included:
• Breakfast
No accommodation included on this day.