Day Trips

Excursions from Yerevan to monasteries, lakes, and mountains

Mount Aragats

Skip the north peak. Unless you arrive in Yerevan with crampons, an ice axe, and at least one mountain you’ve […]

The cabin pulls away from Halidzor station and within ten seconds the floor below you is gone. Not a slope.

The wind on the Sevan Peninsula at six in the morning is the kind that rearranges a face. I’d come

Dilijan is the place people add to the itinerary when they want a break from the monasteries. That sells it

From Zvartnots into central Yerevan, you’ll pay 3,000 dram (about $7.50) for a metered city taxi at the rank, 300

Inside the Avazan, an a cappella voice catches the rock and comes back at you four or five times, slightly

From Yerevan, take marshrutka 202 or 203 from Kilikia bus station, pay 250 dram, and you are in Vagharshapat in

Khor Virap is the monastery you go to for the church. That sells it short. You go for the mountain.

Skip the half-day bus tour. Garni gets sold as a stop. It’s a day. The temple itself takes about twenty

The Sanahin Bridge survived a flood in May 2024 that took out seventeen other bridges in the area. I went