Armenia · Private tour
7-Day Tsaghkadzor, Jermuk & Geghard Tour
Private tour, 6 nights, our own guide and vehicle
About this trip
7-Day Tsaghkadzor, Jermuk & Geghard Tour is a private, 7-day journey through Yerevan · Tsaghkadzor · Geghard · Khor Virap · Amberd · Jermuk, run by our own guides and drivers rather than subcontracted to a local agency. The world’s oldest Christian nation: rock-cut monasteries under Mount Ararat.
You travel as your own group, no strangers, no fixed coach departure. The itinerary below is our recommended shape; a consultant can move a day, add a night or change a hotel before you commit to anything.
Pace: Several long transfer days and full sightseeing days throughout.
Day by day
The outline of this trip. Your consultant sends the full day-by-day programme, with timings, once your booking is confirmed.
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Day1
Arrive Yerevan, then the Yerevan City Tour.
Yerevan is built from pink volcanic stone, which is why Armenians call it the Pink City. See it from the top of the Cascade, a giant stairway of gardens and modern art with Mount Ararat on the horizon on a clear day, then walk the squares and café streets below. The day also includes the Genocide Memorial, the most moving place in the city.
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Day2
Tsaghkadzor & Dilijan Tour.
Armenia's lake and forest country. Lake Sevan, one of the largest high-altitude freshwater lakes in the world, shines below a monastery on its peninsula. Next comes a mountain resort with a medieval monastery at its edge, then Dilijan, the forest town Armenians call their Switzerland, hiding a 13th-century monastery in the trees.
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Day3
Garni & Geghard Tour.
Armenia's two most famous sights, side by side. Garni is a first-century Greco-Roman temple, the only one still standing in the former Soviet world, above a gorge lined with basalt columns so regular they look carved. Geghard, a UNESCO-listed monastery cut partly into the cliff, has chapels where a single voice fills the rock. Ask us about baking lavash or hearing the duduk.
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Day4
Khor Virap & Areni Wine Tour.
Mount Ararat never looks closer than from Khor Virap, the monastery where Armenia's conversion to Christianity began with a saint imprisoned in a pit. South of it lies wine country: Areni, whose nearby cave held the world's oldest known winery, and Noravank, a red-stone monastery deep in a narrow canyon. A wine tasting is yours if you want it.
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Day5
Amberd & Saghmosavank Tour.
High-country Armenia. A hillside of giant stone letters celebrates the Armenian alphabet, a monastery stands on the lip of a deep canyon, and Amberd, a fortress at about 2,300 metres on the slopes of Mount Aragats, is as remote and windswept as it looks. Higher still, Lake Kari is often ringed with snow well into summer.
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Day6
Jermuk Wellness Tour.
Jermuk is Armenia's spa town, famous for hot mineral water that pours from stone taps in its drinking gallery. The road there crosses the Selim Pass, past a 14th-century Silk Road caravanserai, and the field of carved cross-stones at Noratus, the largest of its kind in the world. At the end, a waterfall drops some seventy metres down the gorge.
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Day7
Free morning, transfer to the airport for departure.
Departure
Where you stay
Choose your hotel level: the price above and the group table update to match. Prefer something different, or a family room? A consultant can reprice it.
- Fellinger Concept · 4-star · Yerevan, 4 nights
- SIA RESORT · 4-star · Tsaghadzor, 1 night
- Goris · 3-star · Goris, 1 night
- Premier · 3-star · Yerevan, 4 nights
- SIA RESORT · 4-star · Tsaghadzor, 1 night
- Goris · 3-star · Goris, 1 night
What's included
Included in the price
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Not included
- International flights to and from the region
- Visa fees where your passport requires one
- Lunches and dinners unless stated in the itinerary
- Personal expenses, drinks and souvenirs
- Tips for your guide and driver
- Anything not listed under what’s included
How group size changes the price
A private tour splits the vehicle, the guide and the driver across your group, so the per-person price falls as the group grows. These are live figures for this exact itinerary.
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Weather, month by month
Average daytime high, night-time low and rain days for the places this trip actually goes, from five years of recorded observations. Not a forecast, and not the capital's weather standing in for the mountains.
Best months for this trip: Apr, Jun, Jul, Aug, Sep, Oct.
Good to know
- Visas
- It depends on your passport: see visa rules for Armenia, each linked to its government source. We will tell you what we know, but the requirement is yours to check against your own passport.
- Best time to go
- May–June and September–October. We run this trip outside those months too, prices and conditions change, so ask.
- Getting there
- International flights are not included. Most travellers fly into Yerevan; we meet you at the airport.
- Confirming
- The price you see is real, but it is a quotation until a consultant checks hotel and guide availability for your dates, normally within 24 hours.
Questions we get asked
Is this a group tour with other people?
No. Every trip on this site is private: your group, your vehicle, your guide, your dates. Nobody else joins you.
Can the itinerary be changed?
Yes. This is our recommended shape for 7 days, not a fixed product. Add a night, drop a day trip, change a hotel tier, a consultant reprices it before you commit.
Is the price per person or total?
Prices show per person based on two people sharing a double room, with the total alongside. Solo travellers and larger groups price differently, the table above shows how.
When do I pay?
Nothing is taken through this website. A consultant confirms availability, sends a written quote with the payment schedule, and only then do you decide.
What if the weather closes a mountain road?
It happens, mostly outside the months above. We offer the nearest equivalent we can arrange and explain any difference in cost, either way.
What travellers say
4.9 from 227 reviews on Google
Those reviews are from travellers on our Georgia trips, where we have run longest. We have not written reviews for Armenia and will not invent them, so you are seeing our overall rating rather than feedback on this itinerary.
Book or ask about this trip
Choose your date and group to see your exact price, then request to book it. Nothing to pay now: a consultant confirms hotels and guides within 24 hours and sends a secure payment link. Or just send us a question.
