ARCHAEOLOGY AND ROCK-ART TOUR

09 Days/08 Nights

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Discover Armenia’s ancient history with Levon Travel’s exclusive archaeological tours.

DAY 01: FLIGHT TO YEREVAN

Arrival in Yerevan. Transfer to hotel. Hotel accommodation. Use your free time to visit the Vernissage Market in the City Centre – an arts and crafts open-air bazaar that opens only at weekends. You will find here different souvenirs, pictures, sculptures, traditional carpets and rugs, and so on. Overnight in Yerevan.

DAY 02: YEREVAN CITY TOUR

  •  National History Museum (stone dragons (vishaps) and rock carvings
  •  Vishapakar near the Government House;
  • “Stone dragons” near Poplavok Lake;
  •  Rock carvings near the Yerevan State University;
  •  Erebuni Museum;
  •  Rock carvings near the statue of hero Torq Angel.

 

 

DAY 03: YEREVAN – ZOVUNI – AGARAK – VOSKEHAT AND OSHAKAN BRONZE AGE SETTLEMENTS – YEREVAN

  • Vishapakar near Yerevan Institute of Physics;
    • Zovuni: fortress, cuneiform inscription and rock carvings;
    • Agarak: astronomical complex, tombs, rock-carvings
    • Voskehat village rock carvings;
    • Oshakan: Mesrop Mashtots’s tomb, fortress, rock carvings, vishap;
    • Return to Yerevan.

 

 

DAY 04: GEGHAMA MOUNTAIN RANGE. Rock carvings from VII-III Millennia BC. High mountain lakes

  • Cyclopean fortress near the Sevaberd village;
    • Rock art area;
    • Sevaberd village;
    • Sightseeing tour around Hatis Mountain;
    • Return to Yerevan.

 

 

DAY 05: SARDARAPAT (ETHNOGRAPHIC MUSEUM), ARMAVIR (HIEROGLYPHS, INSCRIPTIONS, RUINS OF FORTRESS AND TEMPLE), METSAMOR (ANCIENT ASTRONOMY AND METALLURGY, VISHAPS AND PHALLUSES), ECHMIATZIN, ZVARTNOTS TEMPLE (VII C). Around 100 Km, 09 AM – 07 PM)

  • Ethnographic Museum of Armenia;
    • Armavir;
    • Metzamor Museum and site;
    • Ejmiatzin Cathedral;
    • Zvartnots;
    • Return to Yerevan.

 

 

DAY 06:KHOR VIRAP, NORAVANK, ZORAKAR (ANCIENT OBSERVATORY), SYUNIK (UKHTASAR ROCK-ART AREA), OLD KHNDZORESK (CAVE VILLAGE), SELIM PASS, SEVSAR ANCIENT OBSERVATORY AND SEVAN LAKE BASIN (NORADOUZ AND LCHASHEN). Around 700 km; 08 AM – 09 PM)

  • Khorvirap monastery and sightseeing of Ararat Mountain;
    • Noravank Monastery Complex;
    • Zorakar Medieval Observatory;
    • Ukhtasar rock carvings;
    • Overnight in Goris (South Armenia).• Khndzoresk;
    • Selim Pass (Sisakan);
    • Vardenis stellar maps;
    • Sevsar;
    • Geghhovit Tukhmanuk;
    • Noradouz khachqars (cross-stones);
    • Hayravank and Berdkunq;
    • Lchashen settlement;
    • Return to Yerevan.

 

 

DAY 07:AGHTSQ (ARSHAKUNIATS MAUSOLEUM), STONE DOOR, BYURAKAN ASTRONOMICAL OBSERVATORY, AMBERD FORTRESS, QARI LAKE, SAGHMOSAVANK. (Around 130 Km, 09 AM – 07 PM)

  • Aghtsq;
    • Stone door and tunnel;
    • Byurakan observatory;
    • Amberd Fortress;
    • Qari lake and vishaps;
    • Armenian Alphabet sculptures (modern);
    • Saghmosavank;
    • Arriving in Yerevan.

 

 

DAY 08:LEISURE DAY IN YEREVAN

Additional visits are available.

 

 

DAY 09:DEPARTURE

Transfer to the airport. Departure.

 

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