Description:
Region/Marz: Tavush
Town: Haghartsin, Yenohavan & Okonavan villages
Distance from Yerevan: 2 hours by car
Start of the trail: Haghartsin or Yenokavan villages
Duration: 3 to 4 days
Difficult passages: 2
Guides accompany is mandatory!
One of the most impressive, extreme and less known trekking destinations in Armenia.
A great opportunity to trek through forests and mountainous areas, will realize unique caves, coming across with shepherds, swimming in rivers and under waterfalls.
Getting relaxed in a fairytale place called Lastiver.
Get ready to live far away from civilization for three or four days, as you will deepen in forests of Ijevan and Hovk mountains into a pretty wild nature.
Trekking plan:
Day 1: Yerevan - Haghartsin - Haghartsin summer inhabitation
Hiking duration: 7-8 hours
Difficulty level: 4 (on a scale of 1 to 10)
Attractions:
1. Old Monastery
2. Haghartsin Summer Inhabitation (Bina)
Day 2: Haghartsin Bina – Icehouse cave (Buskhana) - Winding cave - Khachaghbyur Gorge
Hiking duration: 7-8 hours
Difficulty level: 5 (on a scale of 1 to 10)
Attractions:
1. Caving in the Icehouse or as locals call Buskhana
2. Caving in the Winding cave
Day 3: Khachaghbyur Gorge - Okonavan - Lastiver
Hiking duration: 5-6 hours
Difficulty level: 4 (on a scale of 1 to 10)
Attractions:
1. Lastiver Anapat resort
2. Lastiver cave
You can spend the night at wooden cottages; 5000 AMD per cottage for 3-5 person, or
you may stay in your tent and pay 1000 AMD.
Day 4: Lastiver - Yenokavan - Yerevan
Hiking duration: 2 hours
Difficulty level: 2 (on a scale of 1 to 10)
Attractions:
1. Do the Zipline
2. APAGA Gomer Resort in Yenokavan where you can spend a full relaxation time.
Photo album:
Photo credit: Suren Khazarchian
Information provided by: Gor Ayzak Hovhannisyan