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BAKU - GOBUSTAN - TBILISI - KAKHETIA - KAZBEGI - DILIJAN - SEVAN - YEREVAN - ARARAT PLANT - KHOR-VIRAP - ARENI - NOURANK - GARNI
Tour Date: Every Tuesday
Arriving transfer, hotel accommodation.
Baku is a city of winds, lights, interesting parks and unique museums. Each of them is not only a place for a walk and an attraction of our capital, but also a repository of a huge variety of stories and feelings. See medieval Baku
After breakfast, at the appointed time, our guide meets customers and sends them on a tour of the Old Town: you will visit various ancient castles, towers (the famous maiden tower-symbol of Baku), palaces ( Shirvanshahpalace ), mosques (Juma mosque), baths, caravanserai and other historical monuments, and immerse yourself in history. You will see the place where the famous damn scene from the movie The Diamond Arm was filmed.
Further, on the Baku funicular, we will go up to the upland park. An amazing panorama of the Baku bay opens from the height. Driving past picturesque green spaces, thickets of shrubs, pines and firs, we look at the magnificent panorama of the city slowly unfolding in front of us: the dark expanse of the Caspian Sea, reflecting the lights of the glowing Baku evening.
The funicular takes us to the Highland Park, where the Eternal Flame monument and the Alley of Martyrs are located - the burial of the victims of Black January and those who died for the sovereignty and territorial integrity of Azerbaijan.
From the upper platform of the Nagorny Park, an even more incredible view of the whole city and the bay opens up .
After the creation of the Alley of Martyrs here, there is constant silence in the park. There is no more music and rides, the former fun bypasses this place with a party, which is understandable. But it is this silence that gives the park visitors peace of mind, peace, evoked by the noise of pines and the scent of nature.
Take a walk along Baku Boulevard.
After admiring and walking along the mysterious alleys of the evening park, we will return and take a walk along Baku Boulevard, which stretches from Government House to the Baku Crystal Hall. In 2009, this embankment in the greenery of the city (officially, this is a boulevard, but the sea is next to it) marked a century. Most of all, the residents of Baku love to walk here, especially in the summer at night, when it becomes at least a little cool in the city that is sick of the heat. However, Baku Boulevard is not only people, greens, benches and the sea. It is also very interesting buildings: 75-meter parachute tower, a new building of the Museum of carpets in the form of a collapsed main exhibit, the International Center of Mugham - Azerbaijani national music, the Baku Venice canal complex, where you can ride a gondola, as well as the pre-revolutionary Puppet Theater , from which, according to legend, were removed statues of naked Greek gods, as they traumatized the child's psyche. And finally, the largest shopping mall in Baku, Park. Boulevard . All this fits on the main promenade of the city.
Breakfast. Free day. Optional excursion to Gobustan ( extra charge) .
Breakfast. Free time. Transfer to the railway station, train Baku-Tbilisi.
A meeting at the railway station (plate GEOMANDARIN), transfer to the hotel.
Tbilisi is the capital of Georgia, which has absorbed so many epochs and cultures that even the locals do not know all the mysteries and secrets that keep the mazes of this warm and beautiful city. Beautiful carved balconies, unique front doors, famous Tbilisi courtyards, this is all what the city is famous for.
We invite you to the author's tour of the city!
During the walking tour with a professional guide, we will climb the Narikala Fortress , see Tbilisi from a bird's-eye view, visit the fig gorge and the complex of famous sulfur baths, walk along the alleys of the famous Sharden district.
At the end of the tour we will have a tasting of famous Georgian wines in one of the city’s marani .
Breakfast.
Kakheti, how many things are there in this word! A few years ago, the whole world recognized that Georgia is the birthplace of wine.
We start our tour with a visit to the winery KTW Corporation, one of the largest wine producers, where we race with kazhut the secret of the "Georgian" wine making technology.
We will make the next stop in the once famous and very developed city G Remi , who was completely destroyed by the brutal Iranian Shah Abbas. The Arkhangelsk temple and bell tower survived to this day, and this is what the complex is now called “castle G remi”
Next, we will invite you to lunch with the peasant family, where you will be served a traditional table from the Kakhetian mistress (extra charge) .
The last point of our tour will be Signagi - the city of Love . Sighnaghi - small town in the east Georgia, on the mountainside, in the historical region Kakheti . Center of Historical and Geographical Area K isik , located on the terraces, connecting winding steep streets.
Breakfast.
So much has been said and written about the famous Georgian military road that every day it attracts more and more travelers from around the world.
"Better than mountains, there can only be mountains in which you have not yet been" - the familiar words of Vysotsky. Today we go to the mountains and feel the spirit of freedom.
Our first stop will be in Ananuri , a fortress that served as the main reference for Aragwis Eristave , the rulers of this region. Fortress emerged in the XVI century and over the next two centuries served as the northern outpost of the defense of Transcaucasia, blocking the road leading from Darial gorge.
Next, we will stop at the "Arch of Friendship" , which was built as an observation deck in honor of the 100th anniversary of the signing of the Treaty of St. George.
The last point of our trip will be Gergeti , located at a height of 2 170 m at the foot Kazbek along Georgian Military Highway in a Georgian village Gergeti , right above the village Stepantsminda . Built in XIV century the shrine is the only one cross-domed temple in the area of Heavy. Medieval preserved near the temple Bell tower.
Breakfast. Transfer to the border with Armenia. Meeting at the border. Drive to the mountain resort Dilijan. It is located high in the mountains (1200-1500m), covered with virgin pine forests. Walk through the old district of Dilijan.The architecture of Dilijan is interesting for its lighter and airy style using wood in the structures and facades of houses . Of interest is Sharambeyan Street , located in the historic district of the old Dilijan with a lot of restored workshops of local artisans, which recreates the spirit of the old city of the XIX century. Inspection of the monastery complex Haghartsin (XIII century). Haghartsin - the most secluded and cut off from the outside world monastery, including a group of monastic buildings, closely adjacent to each other. The monastery unexpectedly appearing among the thick trees creates a fabulous impression of a lost world.
Ride to the highland lake Sevan - one of the wonders of Armenia. This dazzling blue lake is located high in the mountains. Cold and majestic, it harbors inexplicable beauty. Not without reason many artists choose Sevan as an object of their art. Next transfer to Yerevan. Accommodation at the hotel and free time to spend the evening in Yerevan.
A sightseeing tour of Yerevan, ancient (29 years older than Rome) and at the same time a modern beautiful city with a unique flavor against the backdrop of the majestic biblical Mount Ararat, sparkling with its snow-capped peaks. Excursion to the ruins of the Erebuni fortress , founded Urartian king Argishti I in 782 BC. er and visit the museum Erebuni (1968) with exhibits the era Urartu. Fortress played important role in life Armenian of the state . From titles fortress and going on title cities - Yerevan . Visit local of the market . Further visit factories carpet, where preserved many go ve to high tra di tion ar myans to go cove po de Leah , Demonstrationproduction - coloring yarns via vegetable dyes , weaving , cutting and finishing . Provided by unique opportunity participate in the process tame weaving carpet . Small survey excursion by Yerevan , which includesfamiliarity with the center cities and his attractions : the building of Opera and Ballet, the Parliament and the Residence of the President of the Republic of Armenia, Square Republic , Swan Lake Cascade. A visit to the worldfamous th Yerevan cognac factory "Ararat", which keeps the tradition of producing the legendary brandy since 1887. For 1 hour, visitors are given the opportunity to familiarize themselves with the cognac manufacturing process, with the factory museum, taste different cognac sorts of varying degrees of aging, and also purchase real Armenian cognac in the store directly at the factory .
Breakfast at the hotel. Drive to Ararat valley to Khor Virap church . From here a unique panorama of the biblical Mount Ararat glittering with snow-white peaks opens. There is a sacred place deep under the church: here Gregory the Illuminator spent 13 years in a dungeon imprisoned on the orders of King Trdat for spreading Christianity in Armenia. After his release in 301, Gregory the Illuminator sanctified the Armenian people, and Christianity was adopted in Armenia as the state religion. At the place of imprisonment of Gregory the Illuminator, the church of Khor Virap was built , which became a holy place for the entire Christian world, and Gregory the Illuminator was erected in the face of the saints and is considered the founder of the Armenian Apostolic Church. The church has an entrance to the dungeon, so it is possible to go down the stairs and inspect the place of imprisonment.Not far from the church are the ruins of the ancient capital of Armenia Artashat, which is one of the few ancient cities built according to a special project. The author of the city plan was the commander of ancient Carthage, Hannibal, who fled to Armenia after he lost the war with Rome. A trip to the village of Areni - the cradle of winemaking. Visits to the winery and wine tasting of different varieties. A trip to the monastery complex Noravank ( X III-XV centuries), which is an outstanding monument of medieval architecture and a major religious and cultural center. Located among the bizarre sheer red rocks on the ledge of a winding gorge, it is an extraordinary spectacle in its beauty. The oldest monument of Noravank - Surb Church Karapet (IX - X century ). To the north of it in the XIII century. the main temple of the monastery was erected, also dedicated to this saint. The sculptor and architect of it was the famous talented architect Momik . To the north of the main temple is the tomb of the Orbelyan family . The temple is decorated with images of the Virgin and Child, God - the father, the crucifixion of Christ, as well as a large number of cross- stones of openwork. Surb Church located nearby Astvyatsatsin (Mother of God) is a highly artistic monument of memorial importance. The first floor served as a tomb, the second - a memorial temple. The western facade of the building is especially beautiful, it is decorated with console stairs leading to the second floor. Return to Yerevan.
Breakfast at the hotel. Excursion to the extraordinarily beautiful pagan temple of the Sun (I century AD) in the village Garni . Built in the Greek style with a characteristic colonnade on all sides and located on the top of a hill divided by a deep gorge from the mountain range, it is an extraordinary spectacle in its beauty, which sometimes seems unreal. The fortress of Garni served as the summer residence of the Arshakid royal court. Destroyed by a strong earthquake in 1679, later in 1969-1974. the temple was restored. A part of the wall of the fortress that surrounded the temple, as well as the ruins of the royal palace and baths have been preserved. Interesting is the mosaic floor of the waiting room and the inscription on it: "They worked without getting anything." Inscriptions in Greek have been preserved, from which it follows that the temple was built in 77d. n er Tsar Trdat I ( Arshakiddynasty). Directions to the rarest carved in the rock temple from . Geghard (XII - XIII cc.), Translated as “holy spear” in honor of the spear kept for a long time in it, which interrupted the torments of Christ on the cross (now it is in the Museum of St. Echmiadzin). The temple is located high in the mountains in the picturesque gorge of the Azat River . This is a masterpiece of Armenian medieval architecture. It is a complex consisting of the main church, two cave churches, and also a shrine. In the first cave temple of the cliff beats a cold spring, which to this day is the object of worship. It is believed that his holy water heals diseases, rejuvenates, gives beauty. GeghardMonastery is listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site (2000).
Demonstration of a unique process of baking Armenian bread - pita bread in a tank in a rural house.
Return to Yerevan. Transfer to the airport and departure.
Package price per person when staying in a DBL / TWIN:
in the hotel 3 * - $ 865 ;
in the hotel 4 * - $ 1035 ;
in the hotel 5 * - $ 1335 ;
Package price per person when staying in a SNGL room:
in the hotel 3 * - $ 1210 ;
in the hotel 4 * - $ 1420 ;
in the hotel 5 * - $ 1935 ;
Package price includes:
• Hotel accommodation ;
• Breakfast;
• Wine tasting in Tbilisi , in Kakheti, in Areni
• Excursion to the legendary Ararat plant with tasting, Lavash cooking workshop;
• Comfortable transport and jeeps on Gergeti , railway was on the Baku-Tbilisi train, coupe ;
• Services of English-speaking guide;
• All entrance fees
• Great mood
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