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Amazing Armenia
Exploring an undiscovered land.
OverviewThis is a holiday walking through stunning mountain ranges, deep gorges, open pasture, across clear mountain streams, orchards of mulberry, walnut and almond trees with views across lakes and valleys. It will take you to remote monasteries and churches carved out of rock or built from dark volcanic stone. We will visit ruined churches where stunning frescos are open to the elements.
We’ll stay in some lovely hotels, enjoy some great local fresh food, particularly vegetarian, great local wine, brandy or beer. You will also be welcomed by a people whose history stretches back thousands of years.
We start in Yerevan, then south to grassy mountains. The walk to Tatev monastery is one of the most demanding, yet spectacular. Then north again to the spa town of Jermuk and on to Lake Sevan, the biggest lake in the Caucasus mountains. Continuing to Dzoraget, in ’Swiss Armenia’, where the wooden valleys leading to open slopes are reminiscent of the Alps and finally back to the capital Yerevan to see the sites but also to walk in the mountains that surround the city.
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Ara Hatayan was an outstanding local guide for our holiday to Armenia, knowledgable, enthusiastic, perceptive of members...
Armenia was surprisingly beautiful. The local guide - Ara - was exceptionally knowledgable and conscientious as well as ...
Barry is our Buildings Manager and also our birdwatching expert. He's keen to add both holiday to destinations with good birdwatching opportinities for the non expert as well as holidays specifically for enthusiasts. And not content with putting the holidays together, he leads as many of them as he can!
