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SILK ROAD ARMENIA

GRAND HISTORICAL TRANSIT TOUR
Tbilisi • Yerevan: Tavush • Lori • Shirak • Gegharkunik • Kotayk
• Aragatsotn • Ararat • Armavir • Vayots Dzor • Syunik • Yerevan
Tour programme for 12 days / 11 nights
 
 
SITES: Historic, Nature, Cultural
DIRECTORY: Culture • Eating • Entertainment • Activities • Accommodation • Shopping • Tours
THEMES: Wine Trail • Footsteps of Christianity • Kings • Queens & Princes • Roman trail
• Nature/Birds Trail • Cradle of Civilization • Momik trail • Star Gazing
TOUR TYPE: Guided
TOUR : Transit Tour
NOTICE: This tour can be designed as an transit tour – including Turkey and Georgia countries.
TOUR DESCRIPTION This tour will take you to the remote forests, mountains and town of Armenia which were a part of the Great Silk Road. 
 
 
 
 
You’ll be following the route all the time meeting the road signs everywhere saying “Armenian Silk Road”.
Armenia was on the Great Silk Road as this ancient country had something special to offer. In Armenia the
monks would produce a very high quality deep and fiery red dye from a worm called “Vordan Karmir”(translated as “red worm”) endemic to the Araratian Plateau. 
The dye never fades under natural light.
It was used in manuscript illustration, in painting rugs, carpets, textiles as well as in architecture.
The Bible mentions this red dye derived from the red worm, used by Noah's offspring. In the third century Leonardo da Vinci witnessed he received a red dye from Armenia “of such a high quality that the color would never fade”. 
A.D., the king of Persia presented Emperor Aurelian with a woven wool fabric dyed in red, which
became a phenomenon in Rome because of the brilliance of the color, all the more remarkable because the source of that dye was a worm growing in distant Armenia.
Besides the cochineal dye Armenia exported horses highly valued in China, arming, gold and silver, obsidian, leather and wool, carpets and rugs, exotic fruits – watermelons and peaches, wine, fat-tail sheep and hounds, leopards and lions
 

 
DAY 1
 
Arrival to Armenia.
Meet and pick up from Bagratashen chek point.
 
 
Unpack and rest. 
Buffet breakfast at hotel.
 
DAY 2
Akhtala - Monastery (X cc)  
 
 
Haghpat - Monastery (X-XIII cc)
 
 
Kayan - Fortress (1233 y.)
 
 
Sanahin - Monastery (X cc)
 
 
Alaverdi town - Old city Breadge (X cc)
 
 
Odzun - Monastery (X-XII cc)
 
 
Kobaiyr - Monastery (1171y)
 
 
DAY 3
 
Drive to Dilijan Art Town
 
 
Haghartsin - 13th century monastery
 
 
Goshavank - 12th century monastery
 
 
Parz Lich - natural lake in the Dilijan National Park
 
 
Overnight
 
DAY 4
 
Drive to Ashtarak - city tour
 
 
Agarak – archeological cave (III – XVIII cc BC)
 
 
Aghtsk - 4th century crypt of the Arshakuni kings
 
 
Aruch - 13th c. caravansaray, Cathedral of Aruch (661)
 
 
Dashtadem - Fortress, 10th c.
 
 
Talin - Katoghike grand church (7th century)
 
 
Drive to Tsaghkadzor resort town
 
 
Overnight
 
DAY 5
 
Rest day in Tsaghkadzor Town
 
 
Kecharis monastery
 
 
Museum of Orbelian brothers
 
 
 
DAY 6
 
Buffet breakfast at the hotel.
Sevanavank (874 y.) 
 
 
Lchashen - an archiological monument (3rd BC)
 
 
Haiyravank monatery (9th-12th cc)
 
 
Noratus cemetery - The largest cluster of khachkars in RA
 
 
Dzoragiugh – visiting a ruined church dating back to the 9th c.
Lichk - church of S. Astvatsatsin
 
 
Nerkin Getashen – Kotavank churc (9th century)
Martuni - Astvatsatsin church (1886). Iron Age fort.
 
 
Geghahovit - medieval church of S. Gevorg.
Overnight at Sevan
 
 
DAY 7
 
Selim Pass - Orbelian's Caravanserai (built in1332, by prince Chesar Orbelian)
 
 
 
Smbataberd fortress (V-XIVcc.)
 
 
Yeghegis - Zorats Church
 
 
Noravank monastery complex (XIII cc.)
 
 
Areni village – wine factory
 
 
Jermuk – bride’s waterfall – natural monument
Overnight at Jermuk
 
 
DAY 8
 
Shaki Waterfall - Armenia's highest waterfall.
 
 
Drive to Karahundj village, an Armenian archaeological site
 
 
Tatev Monastery complex (IX c.)
 
 
Wings of Tatev - world’s longest non-stop reversible aerial tramway.
 
 
Overnight at Goris city
 
 
DAY 9
 
Bgheno Noravank (XIc.)
 
 
Yeritsavank (VI AD)
 
 
Kapan city
 
 
Halidzor fortress (XVII c.)
 
 
Vahanavank monasteric complex (X c)
 
 
Kadjaran
Kadjaran Pass (2483 M)
 
 
Meghri - the birthplace of Armenia pomegranate.
 
 
Meghri fortress (Xc)
 
 
Agarak
 
 
DAY 10
 
Drive back to Yerevan. (The group can also choose to continue the tour to Iran or Artsakh).
 
 
Iran
 
 
Artsakh
 
 
Khor Virap Monastery
 
 
Echmiadzin city – the holly capital of Armenia 
 
 
Treasurer of Eachmiadzin
 
 
S. Gayane church
 
 
S.Hripsime church
 
 
DAY 12
 
Yerevan City Tour
 
 
National Museum of History of Armenia
 
 
Matenadaran Museum
 
 
The Blue Mosque
 
 
Ararat Brandy Factory
 
 
Good bye dinner.
 
DAY 13
 
Flight back home.
 
TOUR PRICE INCLUDES:
Transfer airport-hotel-airport
Accommodation in a chosen hotel
Entrance to museums, historical-cultural centers, concert tickets
Daily transportation and hotel transfers
Tour service
Professional guide
Meals per itinerary