Armenia… a small country with a big heart. 

If you are looking for authentic food, hospitality, extreme and endless mountains and historical monuments, Armenia is a must-visit. So, if you are going to tourist places in Armenia, this list will help you know what to see in the country! 

1 Tourist Places In Armenia YEREVAN 

Let’s start our journey from the capital, world famous for its architecture, culture, music and “taste”. This city has a centuries-old history. Can you imagine it being older than Rome? Yerevan has many bars and cafes, shops, green spaces, jazz clubs and a great atmosphere. With its pink tuff stone facades and fountain-filled public squares, the original Yerevan Café has a European feel, but also oriental hospitality and sentimentality. 

2 Tourist Attractions In Armenia YENOKAVAN 

Here you will find one of the most extreme and beautiful places in Armenia. First find a place to spend the night. There are two very beautiful resorts where you can stay: Apaga and Lastiver. Both are very pretty and simple. 

 Resort Lastour 

After you take care of spending the night, you can now think about having fun. The best option is Yale Extreme Park, which is a true paradise for those who want to combine adrenaline and ecological environment. Yale Extreme Park is a place where people fly, overcome obstacles, and climb rocks without any problem surrounded by the most beautiful nature. Current park activities include zip lining (5 different lines), rope park, horseback riding, via ferrata, zorbing, off-road tours, rock climbing, paragliding and paintball.

Many of the activities mentioned can only be found at Yale, considering not only Armenia, but also neighboring countries. Afterwards you can visit nature’s hidden wanderer: Lastiver. Here you feel like you are in childhood or in a fairy tale. On the way to Lastur you will see a cave with many sculptures on the wall and then you will continue your way to a waterfall and small wooden houses built on trees and large rocks. 

Everything here creates a mysterious and fairy-tale atmosphere. 

3 Tourist Attractions In Armenia Colombia  TATEV 

Tatev Monastery is a historical monument of the 9th century. It is one of the oldest and most famous monastic complexes in Armenia. During the Middle Ages, the Tatio Monastery was an academic, enlightened and spiritual center. The shortest route to the monastery is the Tatev cable car wing. Then you can take a jeep tour and explore the villages of Old Halidzor, Old Khot and Old Schnohire. Every experience is guaranteed to be unforgettable! Next, head to Devil’s Bridge, where you can swim in warm, wonderful springs tinged with brightly colored stalactites.

The most intrepid can descend to the river to see the secret grottoes under the fountains. After that you will be able to see the Khndzoresk Suspension Bridge, it is a very long bridge, it is fun to walk and it is also nice to see it with the landscape in the background from a distance. It is stable, don’t be afraid to walk too much. You stop in the middle of the bridge and see the scenery of the surrounding caves and mountains, beautiful! 

4 Tourist Cities In Armenia ARAGATS 

Mount Aragats is an isolated volcanic massif with four peaks. Aragats is isolated from other mountain ranges in Armenia. However, it is considered part of the Armenian Highlands and the highest point. It has four peaks, named according to their respective geographical positions. Aragats is a large volcano with numerous fissures and advent cones. Several large lava flows descend from the volcano and are limited in age between the Middle Pleistocene and 3000 BC. The summit crater is cut by a 13 km (8.1 mi) long line of cones that probably produced Holocene-era lahars and lava flows. The volcanic system covers an area of 5,000 km2 and is one of the largest systems in the region. 

Before climbing this mountain, you will be able to see the unique and beautiful Geghroot waterfall. 

In winter the waterfall freezes, while in summer it falls from a height of about 17 meters. The waterfall is a “Hydrological Monument” and is registered on the list of “Specially Protected Areas”. It is truly a beautiful sight and worth visiting. 

5 Tourist Places In Yerevan Armenia DILIJAN NATIONAL PARK 

Armenia has four national parks and Dilijan. The park, founded in 2002, is famous for its medicinal mineral water springs and natural monuments. Many of Armenia’s most important cultural sites can be found within the park grounds, such as Hagartson Monastery, Goshavank Monastery, and Matusavank Monastery. The basins of the Agestev and Getik rivers are also located within the boundaries of Dilijan National Park. You can also visit Lake Pérez. We would also like to tell you about a hotel where it is worth spending a night. Surrounded by the deep green forests of the Park National Diljan, The Cozy House Diljan offers you a magical home, which will remind you of the movie The Hobbit. 

6 Tourist Places In Armenia  KHUSTUP 

Stay tuned! Incredible views await you! It’s a relatively easy hike and the views are worth it! The height of the mountain is 3,206 meters above sea level. The source of the Vichagan River is located at the northern end of the Khastab Mountain. It is one of the most beautiful, magical and unforgettable peaks you will ever conquer. This scene is so magical that you will hardly be able to control your emotions! On the way to Khastab you can visit the Plain Grove Shrine.

This eastern plain contains the largest natural Platanus orientalis forest in the Caucasus and is surrounded by a 100-meter-wide buffer zone enclosing the Nerkanhand and Kapan forest lands. Next comes the Shikahog State Reserve, the second largest forest reserve in Armenia, covering approximately 10,330 hectares of land. It is home to unique species that are considered wealth not only of Armenia but of the entire world. 

7 GARNI/GEGHARD 

The Temple of Garni is the only building with Greco-Roman colonnades in Armenia and the former Soviet Union. Built in Ionic order in the village of Garni, Armenia, it is the most famous structure and symbol of ancient Armenia. According to some scholars, it was not a temple but a tomb and therefore survived the destruction of the pagan structure. It collapsed in the earthquake of 1679. Renewed interest in the 19th century led to excavations at the site in the early and mid-20th century, and its final reconstruction between 1969 and 1975, using the anastylosis method.

Then you can visit the Geghard Monastery. Geghard is a medieval monastery in the Kotayk province of Armenia, partially surrounded by rocks cut into an adjacent mountain. While the main chapel was built in 1215, the monastery complex was founded in the 4th century by Gregory the Illuminator on the site of a sacred spring inside a cave. Hence the original name of the monastery was Erivanik, which means “cave monastery”. The magnificent cliffs surrounding the monastery are part of the Izzat River gorge, with a relatively complex walled area. and deep chambers within the rock. This combination, together with numerous carved and free-standing khachkars, is a unique sight, one of the most visited tourist attractions in Armenia. 

8 smbataberd 

Sambatabrid is a fortress located on a hilltop between the villages of Artabyunk and Yegigis in the Vyts Zor province of Armenia. It was built in a very advantageous position at the southern end of a ridge, protected on three sides by steep cliffs. The massive walls with towers are still relatively intact on the outside. Little remains of the fort except the faded foundations of buildings near the fortification walls and a keep at the highest point of the site. It has a really beautiful view.

Then you can continue your way to Tsaghats Kar. The Takshatkar complex is a 13th century metropolitan. In the 5th century, during the war against the Sassanids, four battles were fought at Viots Dzur, one of which took place near Taskhat Kar. The most famous battle of the war took place at Ovari in 451, which was important in increasing Armenian resistance and eventually the right to an independent existence. 

9 HAGPAT/SANAHIN 

Hagpat Monastery, also known as Hagpatavank, is a medieval monastic complex in Hagpat, built between the 10th and 13th centuries. It was not built on a summit but in the middle of a hill, in a place chosen to protect and hide from view and also in response to a kind of monastic humility. It is built on a green promontory in the middle of a mountain range, often shrouded in clouds. A peak on the other side of the river is more than 2,500 meters high. The monasteries of northern Armenia are not isolated, unlike their counterparts in the arid regions of the country.

They were built in a village environment and Hagapat is surrounded by many settlements. After that visit Sanahin. Sanahin Monastery is an Armenian monastery founded in the 10th century in Lori Province, Armenia. The name Sanahin literally translates from Armenian as “it is older than that”, probably representing the monastery’s claim to be older than the neighboring Hagpat monastery. The two towns and their monasteries are similar in many ways and lie opposite each other on a disjointed plateau, separated by a deep “cleft” formed by a small river that flows into the Dibad River.