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Pagan temple & cave monastery

Garni's colonnade, the basalt organ pipes and rock-cut Geghard.

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Garni Temple
Photograph: Katsiaryna Naliuka / CC BY-SA 4.0 via Wikimedia Commons

Day 1

Starts from Yerevan · 5h 45m at the sights, 57m travelling · 52 km

Areas: Kotayk

  1. Garni Temple — First-century Hellenistic temple above the Azat gorge (1h)
  2. Symphony of Stones — Basalt columns lining the Garni gorge like organ pipes (45m)
  3. Geghard Monastery — Partly carved into the rock face, a UNESCO World Heritage site (1h 15m)
  4. Havuts Tar — Ruined monastery reached by a hike across the Azat gorge (2h)
  5. Aghjots Monastery — Monastery tucked into the Khosrov forest edge (45m)