Exotic Armenia Tours - Wine,brandy & beer tasting tours

By choosing this tour package you’ll enjoy the legendary Armenian brandy, the best wines and the tasty beer. Besides you’ll visit the most beautiful and important historical sights of Armenia.

Period	All the year
Duration	7 days6 nights/ 6 nights
Group Size	2-10 Persons
Hotel	Ararat Hotel 4*
Meals	Breakfast & Lunch (on tour days only)
Transportation	Tours & airport transfers
Guide	Multi-lingual
Price per person	Minimum $908 Maximum $1306	Based on Double Occupancy

Ararat Hotel: Check-in - 2 p.m. Check-out - 12 noon
Other hotels are also available

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Day 1
Arrival at Zvartnotz International Airport. Our tourist guide will welcome you at the airport. Transfer to the hotel/apartment in Yerevan. Rest.

Wine & Brandy Tasting in Yerevan. Yerevan City Tour. Drive through the central streets of Yerevan, Republic Square, Opera House, Cascade Monument and stairs, "Mother Armenia" Monument with a fantastic view of Yerevan, Victory Bridge, Hrazdan Stadium, Sports and Concerts Center, Presidential Palace, National Assembly Building, Academy of Sciences, Tsitsernakaberd-Armenian Genocide Memorial Complex. Lunch in a traditional Armenian restaurant.

Visit Yerevan’s “Noy” Brandy-Wine-Vodka Factory.During the tour you’ll visit the distillation department, the cooperage department, the museum, the wine-cellar. Tasting three wine varieties from 1913, 1924 and 1944 and two cognac varieties of 10 and 20 years’ maturity. The duration of the factory tour is 1-1.5 hour. Overnight in Yerevan.

Day 2
Wine Tasting in Areni village (Southern Armenia). Visit Khor Virap Monastery. To this day you can visit the underground chamber where St. Gregory the Illuminator, the first Armenia’s Patriarch, was imprisoned for 13 years before curing King Trdat III of a disease. This caused the conversion of the king and Armenia into the first officially Christian nation in the world in the year 301. Its location, near the closest point to Mount Ararat within Armenian borders, offers a spectacular view of the mountain, the national symbol of Armenia.

Drive to Noravank Monastery (13 -14^th centuries), an architectural gemstone nestled among brick-red cliffs, just above a deep gorge. The breathtaking church of the monastery is St. Astvatsatsin, a two-storied building with an open-air church. Enjoy your lunch in a nice restaurant on Arpa River bank.

Visit “Areni” Winery. Areni Winery specializes in the production of premium dry red Vayots
Dzor wines from the Areni grape. It produces 80,000 - 100,000 bottles of wine a year and also ages its wines in oak barrels for one to fifteen years. Overnight in Yerevan.

Day 3
Brandy Tasting in Yerevan's "Ararat" Brandy Factory. Tour to Garni Pagan Temple and Geghard Monastery. The Pagan Temple of Garni is the only non-Christian temple currently standing in Armenia. Gracing the hillside the pagan temple was dedicated to the God of Sun, Mithra. It was built in 77A.D. by the Armenian King Trdat I. The architectural complex of Garni was Armenia's foremost center of Hellenistic culture and the summer residence of Armenian kings. The fortress is situated in a picturesque locality and commands a broad panorama of orchards, fields and mountain slopes covered with motley carpets of varicolored grasses, of the jagged and precipitous canyon of the Azat river. The artistic merit and uniqueness of its monuments place Garni among outstanding creations of architecture of world importance.

Driving for 9 more kilometers from Garni, you'll reach the Monastery of Geghard, which is included in the list of UNESCO World Heritage Sites. Geghard is an incredible ancient Armenian monastery, partly carved out of a mountain. Though the monastery has been around since before the 4^th century, the main cathedral was built in 1215.It is said that the holy lance that pierced the body of Christ was kept here. The architectural forms and the decoration of Geghard's rock premises show that Armenian builders could not only create superb works of architecture out of stone, but also hew them in solid rock. Lunch in an Armenian peasant house in Garni village.

Day 4
After breakfast visit the town of Tsaghkadzor, known for being a ski resort, with forests and an ancient monastery named Kecharis( 11-13^th centuries). In the summer, people go there to get away from the city life of Yerevan, and the heat, for the fresh air in the mountains. In the winter, the town is completely overtaken by skiers. The modern rope-way will take you to the top of Teghenis Mountain, where the greens of land and the blue of the sky get in fusion.

Continue to Dilijan resort town in the North of Armenia. Words alone can't describe the natural beauty of Dilijan. Many poets used to say, "If there are woods, mountains, streams and mineral waters in paradise, it must be like Dilijan." Due to its forested mountains and mild climate, Dilijan is named "Armenia's little Switzerland." You'll see the most beautiful part of the town, Old Dilijan. Lunch in Dilijan in an Armenian family.

After a hearty lunch in an Armenian family in Dilijan proceed to Goshavank Monastery, erected in place of an older monastery, named Getik, which had been destroyed by an earthquake in 1188. Mkhitar Gosh, a statesman, an outstanding scientist and a writer, an author of numerous fables and parables and of the first criminal code, took part in the construction of the monastery, which was named as Goshavank in his honor. On the way back visit Sevanavank Monastery (9^th century) on the main peninsula of the Lake Sevan which used to be an island before 1930's (time permitting). Overnight in Yerevan.

Day 5
Armenian Beer tasting in Kilikia Brewery in Yerevan. Visit Matenadaran , a unique Research Institute and Museum of Ancient Manuscripts. The Matenadaran is the largest center of study and safekeeping of Armenian manuscripts in the world.

Visit Sergey Parajanov house-museum, an exceptional Armenian film director. In this museum you’ll marvel at Parajanov’s fabulous works-his graphics, dolls, collages, 23 screenplays and librettos of unrealized productions of cinema, theater and ballet.

Visit the History Museum of Yerevan. The History Museum is one of the world’s great repositories of Armenian art. Its vast collections, comprising about 40.000 items, represent Armenia’s material culture from the remote past till the present day.

After lunch proceed to Kilikia brewery where you’ll get acquainted with the technique of beer-making in Armenia and then you’ll taste the best Armenian beer. Overnight in Yerevan.

Day 6
Wine and Brandy tasting in Armavir region. Leave for the town of Echmiadzin, the Holy See of the Armenian Apostolic Church, where the Armenian Catholicos (Supreme Patriarch) resides.

Visit St. Hripsime Church, built in 7^th century. It is considered a masterpiece of early medieval Armenian architecture.

Proceed to Echmiadzin Mother Cathedral, which, historically, is the focal point of the city of Echmiadzin, the oldest church in the world. It was originally built by Saint Gregory the Illuminator as a vaulted basilica in 301-303, when Armenia was the only country in the world the state religion of which was Christianity. The Etchmiadzin Cathedral is listed among the UNESCO World Heritage Sites.

Continue to Sardarapat village. Visit Sardarapat Battle Memorial Complex and the rich Ethnographic Museum. Experience a journey between the recent past and the ancient past. See the Sardarapat battlefield with its bell tower honoring a strategically important 1918 Armenian victory and tour the Armenian Ethnographic museum. Lunch in Sardarapat. Have a wine & brandy tasting tour in Armavir. Overnight in Yerevan.