Exquisite Arpa: Journey through the Nature Reserve in Armenia

Duration 8 ocloc'k
Movement Automobile-Pedestrian
Type Individual
Guide Live Guide
Entry tickets Payment on the spot

In this excursion you will visit non-tourist Armenia, after visiting the Arpa Nature Reserve you will feel as if you are on the planet Mars, because all the mountains around are red, we will visit the ranger’s observation deck, and we will enjoy tea with mountain herbs and try to look at mountain goats and wild sheep, I will film you on a drone where you will be on the edge of a cliff and higher than the eagles. We will also visit the floating monastery of Noravak, you will learn about its history. Afterwards we will go to the house of a winemaker where you will try barbecue in a tonyra on a vine and taste homemade cool wines!

Languages of the tour

  • Russian

Information

Entrance to the reserve is $25 per person, paid separately at the location and not included in the price, as well as one drone video as a gift

Attractions

Noravank Monastery
Noravank Monastery

Noravank is an Armenian monastery complex built in the XIII-XIV, 122 km from Yerevan, on the ledge of a narrow winding gorge of a tributary of the Arpa River near the village of Areni. The gorge is famous for the steep red rocks that rise behind the monastery, on the territory of which there is a two-story church of St. Astvatsatsin with narrow cantilever staircases.

Arpa Nature Reserve
Arpa Nature Reserve

Arpa Nature Reserve