Cornelius Amann
October 06, 2026
5/5
Georgia and Armenia: Tbilisi, Kazbegi and Yerevan
12 days from Tbilisi to Yerevan: two nights in the Kakheti wine country, a night under Mount Kazbek, Haghpat and Lake Sevan on the way south, and four nights in Yerevan for Geghard, Garni and Khor Virap.
12 days · Tbilisi to Yerevan · up to 12 guests
The Mtkvari (Kura) River through Tbilisi, from Narikala hill Photo: EvgenyGenkin, CC BY 2.5, via Wikimedia Commons (https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Kura_River_in_the_central_part_of_Tbilisi,_2007-09-28.jpg)
The facts
At a glance
- Length
- 12 days, 11 nights
- Start and end
- Tbilisi to Yerevan
- Group size
- 7 to 12 guests
- Activity level
Moderate
Mostly easy to moderate walking: 2 to 4 hours a day on foot in old towns and at monasteries, on cobbles, steps and uneven stone. The highest point is Gergeti Trinity Church at about 2,170 m, reached by 4x4 or by an optional hike of about 400 m of ascent. You can sit out any walk; every demanding stop has an easier way in.
- Meals included
- 11 breakfasts, 7 lunches, 2 dinners
- Room of your own
- + CAD 850 (estimated price)
- Season
- May to October
Highlights
Why this trip
- Old Tbilisi on foot from 9 am: the sulphur-bath domes, the cable car to Narikala and the 6th-century Anchiskhati Basilica
- A supra with a winemaking family in Kakheti, with wine made in qvevri clay jars buried in the ground
- Gergeti Trinity Church at about 7:30 am, with Mount Kazbek behind it, before the day traffic arrives
- Crossing into Armenia with the same guide, then Haghpat Monastery above the Debed Canyon
- Sevanavank on its peninsula above Lake Sevan, with lunch by the water
- Geghard's rock-cut chapels early, then baking lavash with a family in Garni
- Khor Virap with Mount Ararat behind it in the clear morning light, then lunch at a winery in Areni
What makes this trip different
Free time is part of the plan
Free time and choices are marked on the days they fall.
Solo without the penalty
A room of your own is + CAD 850 (estimated price).
Day by day
Itinerary
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Arrive in Tbilisi
Tbilisi International Airport to your hotel in Tbilisi
- Welcome dinner
- Stay in Tbilisi
- Drive about 30 min
Fly into Tbilisi International Airport (TBS), about 18 km east of the city.
Evening
Many flights into Tbilisi land late at night or in the early hours, so a driver meets every guest's flight on day 1, whatever the time, and takes you to a central hotel within walking distance of the Old Town. To make the evening briefing, plan to land by about 4 pm. At 6 pm your See Sight Tours guide, who stays with you all the way to Yerevan, meets the group to talk through the route, the border day, what to wear in churches and how the days are paced. Then we walk down into the old quarter for a welcome dinner of Georgian dishes to share: khachapuri cheese bread, pkhali vegetable and walnut pâtés, grilled mtsvadi and khinkali dumplings. If you arrive early, the riverside parks and the cafés of Sololaki are a short walk from the hotel.
Included
- Pick-up at Tbilisi International Airport (TBS), at any time
- Welcome briefing with your guide
- Welcome dinner in the old town
Free time: Free until the 6 pm briefing
Old Tbilisi on foot
Metekhi, the sulphur baths, Narikala Fortress, Sioni Cathedral and Rike Park
- Breakfast
- Stay in Tbilisi
We set out at 9 am, before the day groups, from the Metekhi cliff above the Mtkvari River, where a statue of King Vakhtang Gorgasali, by tradition the city's 5th-century founder, looks across to the old town. Cross the river to Abanotubani, the quarter of brick-domed sulphur baths that gave Tbilisi its name (tbili means warm), and follow the stream into the narrow Leghvtakhevi gorge to its small waterfall. The cable car from Rike Park, or a steep 20-minute path, takes us up to Narikala Fortress, with the whole city below and the Mother of Georgia statue on the ridge. Then down through the carved wooden balconies of Kala to Sioni Cathedral and the 6th-century Anchiskhati Basilica, the oldest surviving church in Tbilisi, finishing around 1 pm by the Peace Bridge.
Evening
The afternoon and evening are yours: a private room in the sulphur baths, the flea market at the Dry Bridge, or the Georgian National Museum on Rustaveli Avenue.
Included
- Old Town walk with your guide: Metekhi, Abanotubani and the Leghvtakhevi waterfall
- Cable car to Narikala Fortress
- Sioni Cathedral and Anchiskhati Basilica
- Rike Park and the Peace Bridge
Optional experiences
- A private room in a sulphur bath, paid locally
Easier option: Take the cable car up and back down, and rest in a café while the group walks through Kala.
More active option: Walk up to Narikala from the baths on the steep path instead of taking the cable car.
Free time: Afternoon and evening free
Activity: About 3 to 4 hours on foot on cobbles and steps.
Into Kakheti: Bodbe and Sighnaghi
Tbilisi to Bodbe Monastery and Sighnaghi, then Telavi
- Breakfast and lunch
- Stay in Telavi
- Drive about 3.5 h
We leave Tbilisi at 9 am and drive east for about two hours through Sagarejo to the edge of the Alazani Valley, Georgia's main wine region. First stop is Bodbe Monastery, where Saint Nino, who brought Christianity to Georgia in the 4th century, is buried; its gardens look across the valley to the Greater Caucasus, often still white with snow in spring. Two kilometres on is Sighnaghi, a small hill town of tiled roofs and wooden balconies inside 18th-century walls built under King Erekle II.
Afternoon
Walk a stretch of the wall between its towers with your guide, then sit down to lunch looking over the vineyards. In the afternoon we drive about an hour north along the valley to Telavi, our base for two nights.
Evening
The evening is free in the old centre, around the walls of Batonis Tsikhe, the fortress of the Kakhetian kings, and the huge plane tree beside it.
Included
- Bodbe Monastery and the grave of Saint Nino
- Sighnaghi with your guide, including a walk on the town walls
- Sit-down lunch in Sighnaghi
Free time: Evening free in Telavi
Activity: Sighnaghi is built on a slope; the wall walk has steps and uneven paving.
Kakheti: market, Alaverdi and a supra
Telavi to Alaverdi and a family winery, then back to Telavi
- Breakfast and dinner
- Stay in Telavi
- Drive about 1.5 h
A slow day in the wine country.
Morning
We start at Telavi's morning market, where farmers sell churchkhela (walnuts threaded on string and dipped in thickened grape juice), fresh cheese, herbs and the season's fruit. Then a short drive to Alaverdi, an 11th-century cathedral standing alone among the vineyards, one of the tallest medieval churches in Georgia. Late morning we reach a family winery in a nearby village, where the hosts show how wine is still made in qvevri, clay jars buried in the ground, a tradition UNESCO has listed as intangible heritage since 2013. Taste their amber wines, fermented on the grape skins, and their saperavi reds.
Afternoon
The afternoon is free at the hotel or in Telavi.
Evening
In the evening we go back to the family for a supra, a Georgian feast led by a tamada, the toastmaster, with home cooking, toasts, songs if the hosts sing, and as much or as little wine as you like.
Included
- Telavi morning market with your guide
- Alaverdi Cathedral
- Qvevri winery visit and tasting with a family
- Supra dinner with the family
Free time: Afternoon free
Over the mountains to Kazbegi
Telavi over the Gombori Pass, then the Georgian Military Highway via Ananuri and Gudauri to Stepantsminda
- Breakfast and lunch
- Stay in Stepantsminda
- Drive about 4.5 h
The longest drive of the trip, about 235 km and four and a half hours, because no short road links the wine country with the high Caucasus: we cross the Gombori Pass, skirt the north edge of Tbilisi and join the Georgian Military Highway, the old road over the mountains to Russia. We break it into three parts. After about two and a half hours we stop at Ananuri, a 17th-century fortress with two churches above the Zhinvali reservoir, and walk its walls.
Afternoon
Lunch is khinkali, the pleated dumplings this valley is known for, at a restaurant in Pasanauri. Then the road climbs past the ski resort of Gudauri to the Jvari Pass at about 2,400 m, with a stop at the curved mosaic of the Friendship Monument and its view into the gorge. We reach Stepantsminda, at about 1,700 m below Mount Kazbek, in the late afternoon, with time for a short walk to the stone church beside the house museum of the writer Alexander Kazbegi.
Included
- Ananuri Fortress
- Sit-down khinkali lunch in Pasanauri
- The Friendship Monument viewpoint on the Georgian Military Highway
- Evening walk in Stepantsminda with your guide
Free time: Evening free in Stepantsminda
Activity: The one day at the four-hour driving cap; it is broken by the Ananuri stop, a sit-down lunch and the viewpoint.
Gergeti early, then down to Mtskheta
Stepantsminda to Gergeti Trinity Church, then the Georgian Military Highway to Mtskheta and Tbilisi
- Breakfast and lunch
- Stay in Tbilisi
- Drive about 3.5 h
Morning
After an early breakfast, local 4x4s take us up the steep track to Gergeti Trinity Church at about 7:30 am, while the light is soft and before the day traffic from Tbilisi arrives. The 14th-century church stands alone on a ridge at about 2,170 m, and on a clear morning the glaciers of Kazbek, over 5,000 m, fill the sky behind it. We spend an hour on the ridge, then drive back down the Military Highway, about two and a half hours with a stop at the Jvari Pass, to Mtskheta, Georgia's old capital and a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
Afternoon
Lunch is in Mtskheta. Then Jvari Monastery, a 6th-century church on the hill above the meeting of the Aragvi and Mtkvari rivers, and Svetitskhoveli Cathedral in the town, where tradition says Christ's robe is buried.
Evening
We reach Tbilisi around 5 pm, back at the hotel from the first two nights, with a free evening.
Included
- 4x4 to Gergeti Trinity Church and back
- Sit-down lunch in Mtskheta
- Jvari Monastery and Svetitskhoveli Cathedral in Mtskheta with your guide
Easier option: Ride the 4x4 up and down and stay at the church as long as you like.
More active option: Hike up from Gergeti village, about 1.5 to 2 hours with about 400 m of ascent, starting at 7 am with the guide, and ride the 4x4 back down.
Free time: Evening free in Tbilisi
Activity: Gergeti is at about 2,170 m and can be cold and windy; bring a warm layer.
Into Armenia: Haghpat and Dilijan
Tbilisi to the Sadakhlo-Bagratashen border, Haghpat Monastery in the Debed Canyon, then Dilijan
- Breakfast and lunch
- Stay in Dilijan
- Drive about 4 h
We leave Tbilisi at 8:30 am and drive about an hour and a quarter south to the Sadakhlo-Bagratashen crossing into Armenia. You show your passport on each side; allow about an hour, depending on the queue. Your guide crosses with you, and our Armenian vehicle and driver are waiting on the other side, so you carry your bag only a short way. About an hour up the Debed Canyon, past the copper-mining town of Alaverdi, is Haghpat, a 10th to 13th century monastery on a shelf above the gorge and a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Its churches, bell tower and book depository are built of dark basalt, and carved stone crosses, khachkars, stand in the courtyard.
Afternoon
Lunch is in Haghpat village.
Evening
Then about an hour and three quarters south through Vanadzor to Dilijan, a town in forested hills where we stay one night. The evening is free.
Included
- Border crossing at Sadakhlo-Bagratashen with your guide
- Haghpat Monastery with your guide
- Sit-down lunch in Haghpat village
Free time: Evening free in Dilijan
Activity: About four hours of driving, broken by the border crossing, Haghpat and lunch.
Haghartsin, Lake Sevan and Yerevan
Dilijan to Haghartsin Monastery and Sevanavank on Lake Sevan, then Yerevan
- Breakfast and lunch
- Stay in Yerevan
- Drive about 2.5 h
Morning
A morning in Dilijan National Park. We drive about 25 minutes into beech and oak forest to Haghartsin, a 10th to 13th century monastery in a clearing, whose refectory is roofed with crossed stone arches. Walk the short paths around it, then back in Dilijan browse the restored 19th-century houses and craft workshops of Sharambeyan Street. Late morning we cross the hills to Lake Sevan, at about 1,900 m one of the largest high-altitude freshwater lakes in the world. Climb the steps to Sevanavank, two small 9th-century churches on what was an island until Soviet-era water use lowered the lake and joined it to the shore.
Afternoon
Lunch is by the lake.
Evening
Then about an hour and a quarter down to Yerevan, our base for four nights, arriving mid-afternoon with time to unpack and walk to Republic Square in the evening.
Included
- Haghartsin Monastery in Dilijan National Park
- Sharambeyan Street in Dilijan
- Sevanavank on Lake Sevan
- Sit-down lunch by the lake
Easier option: Stay at the foot of the Sevanavank steps and walk the shore while the group climbs.
More active option: A longer forest walk of about an hour and a half around Haghartsin with your guide.
Free time: Late afternoon and evening free in Yerevan
Activity: Lake Sevan is at about 1,900 m; the steps to Sevanavank are short but steep.
Yerevan: memorial, manuscripts and the Cascade
Tsitsernakaberd, the Matenadaran, the Cascade and the GUM market
- Breakfast
- Stay in Yerevan
- Drive about 30 min
Morning
Yerevan is built of pink and ochre tuff stone, and on a clear morning Mount Ararat, over 5,100 m and across the border in Turkey, closes the end of its avenues. We begin at Tsitsernakaberd, the memorial to the victims of the 1915 Armenian Genocide on a hill above the city: an eternal flame inside a ring of leaning basalt slabs, with the museum beside it. It is a quiet, serious morning, and your guide gives it time. Then the Matenadaran, the institute of ancient manuscripts, with illuminated gospels and early texts in the alphabet created by Mesrop Mashtots in the early 5th century. We walk to the Cascade, a white stone stairway of terraces and sculptures with the city spread below; escalators inside spare you the steps. We finish around 1 pm at the GUM market, with its dried fruit, spices and sujukh, walnuts in grape jelly.
Afternoon
The afternoon is free: the Vernissage market at weekends, the History Museum of Armenia or a brandy tasting.
Included
- Tsitsernakaberd memorial and the Armenian Genocide Museum with your guide
- The Matenadaran
- The Cascade
- The GUM market
Optional experiences
- A brandy tasting in Yerevan, paid locally
More active option: Climb the Cascade's outdoor stairs to the top terrace instead of taking the escalators.
Free time: Afternoon and evening free
Activity: We order the morning around the museums' closing days, confirmed with your final itinerary.
Geghard and Garni
Yerevan to Geghard Monastery and Garni Temple, then back to Yerevan
- Breakfast and lunch
- Stay in Yerevan
- Drive about 2 h
We leave Yerevan at 8:30 am to reach Geghard at about 9:30, ahead of most day tours. The monastery sits at the head of the Azat Valley and is partly cut into the cliff: some of its chapels are carved out of the living rock, and a spring still runs in one of them. Geghard and the upper Azat Valley are a UNESCO World Heritage Site. If a choir is singing in the rock chapel, stay and listen. Then twenty minutes down the valley to Garni, a Greco-Roman temple of the 1st century AD on a promontory above the gorge, rebuilt in the 1970s from its fallen stones.
Afternoon
Lunch is with a family in Garni village, where you watch, and try, lavash being slapped onto the wall of a tonir, the clay oven sunk into the floor.
Evening
We are back in Yerevan by mid-afternoon, and the evening is yours.
Included
- Geghard Monastery with your guide
- Garni Temple entry
- Lavash baking and lunch with a family in Garni
Easier option: The van drives down into the gorge to the basalt columns, so you see them without the climb back up.
More active option: Walk down into the Garni gorge to the Symphony of Stones, cliffs of hexagonal basalt columns, and back up: about 3 km with about 100 m of descent and climb.
Free time: Late afternoon and evening free
Khor Virap, Noravank and Areni wine
Yerevan to Khor Virap, Noravank and Areni, then back to Yerevan
- Breakfast, lunch and dinner
- Stay in Yerevan
- Drive about 4 h
Ararat is usually clearest early, before the haze builds, so we leave at 8 am for Khor Virap, about 45 minutes south across the Ararat plain, close to the closed border with Turkey. The monastery stands on a low hill with the two peaks of Ararat behind it. Below one chapel is the pit where, by tradition, Gregory the Illuminator was held for 13 years before he converted King Trdat III, and Armenia became the first state to adopt Christianity, traditionally in 301. Climb down the ladder into it if you like. Then about an hour east into Vayots Dzor to Noravank, a 13th-century monastery against red cliffs at the head of a narrow gorge.
Afternoon
Lunch is at a family winery in Areni, where we taste wine from the local areni grape; archaeologists found a winery about 6,000 years old in a cave nearby.
Evening
Back in Yerevan by about 5 pm, then a farewell dinner together.
Included
- Khor Virap Monastery with your guide
- Noravank Monastery
- Winery lunch and tasting in Areni
- Farewell dinner in Yerevan
Optional experiences
- Areni-1 cave, where the ancient winery was found, paid locally
Easier option: Skip the ladder into the pit at Khor Virap and take in the view of Ararat from the walls.
More active option: Climb the low hill behind Khor Virap for the widest view of the monastery with Ararat behind it.
Activity: The ladder into the pit at Khor Virap is steep and narrow, about 6 m down.
Departure from Yerevan
Yerevan to Zvartnots International Airport
- Breakfast
- Drive about 18 min
There are no activities planned today, so you leave whenever your flight does.
Evening
Many flights from Zvartnots International Airport (EVN), about 12 km west of the centre, depart in the early hours or early morning, and we drive you to the airport at whatever time your flight needs; your guide checks the time with you the evening before. If you fly later in the day, leave your bags at the hotel after check-out and use the morning: the History Museum of Armenia on Republic Square, the Vernissage market if it is a weekend, or a last coffee on Northern Avenue. The ruins of the 7th-century Zvartnots Cathedral, part of a UNESCO listing with Echmiadzin, stand beside the airport road; with a flight after midday we can stop there for half an hour. Book any flight home. If you would like more days, ask us for extra nights in Yerevan or a private extension south to Tatev and Goris, quoted separately.
Included
- Drop-off at Zvartnots International Airport (EVN), at any time
Free time: Free until your airport transfer
Activity: Any flight time works; for the Zvartnots Cathedral stop, book a flight after midday.
- Tbilisi2 nights
- Telavi2 nights
- Stepantsminda1 night
- Tbilisi1 night
- Dilijan1 night
- Yerevan4 nights
- Overnight stop
- Day trip
- By boat or train
Wildlife and weather: We run from May to October because the Georgian Military Highway over the Jvari Pass can close for snow from late autumn to spring. Kazbegi is cool and can be cloudy at any time, so the Gergeti visit is timed for the morning; Yerevan is hot in July and August, so we sightsee in the mornings and leave the afternoons free.
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Before you book
Right for you?
Good for you if you want
- Travellers who want both countries in under two weeks without moving hotel every night
- Food and wine: a supra, home-baked lavash and tastings in Kakheti and Areni
- History and old churches in measured doses, with markets and free afternoons between
- Solo travellers who want a small group and one guide throughout
Not for you if you want
- Step-free access: old towns, monasteries and Gergeti mean cobbles, steps and rough ground
- Travellers who want serious mountain hiking every day
- Anyone who wants western Georgia, Svaneti, Vardzia or southern Armenia's Tatev on the same trip
- A winter trip: the Kazbegi road can close from late autumn to spring
Book flights after we confirm your seat.
11 nights
Where you'll stay
Your hotels are named in your trip confirmation.
- Tbilisi2 nights
- Telavi2 nights
- Stepantsminda1 night
- Tbilisi1 night
- Dilijan1 night
- Yerevan4 nights
One price
What's in the price
Included
Accommodation
- 11 nights: 3 in Tbilisi, 2 in Telavi in the Kakheti wine region, 1 in Stepantsminda (Kazbegi), 1 in Dilijan and 4 in Yerevan
- Central hotels of a 3-star-plus standard with private bathrooms; we name each hotel when we confirm your dates
- Rooms shared, or your own for a supplement
Transport
- Pick-up at Tbilisi International Airport (TBS) and drop-off at Zvartnots International Airport (EVN), at any time
- A private air-conditioned vehicle and driver for the group in Georgia, and another in Armenia, changing at the Sadakhlo-Bagratashen border
- Local 4x4s to Gergeti Trinity Church
- The cable car to Narikala Fortress in Tbilisi
Your guide
- A See Sight Tours guide with the group from day 1 to day 12, across the border and in both countries
- Local site guides where a site requires them
Activities
- Tbilisi: Old Town walk, the sulphur-bath quarter, Narikala Fortress, Sioni Cathedral and Anchiskhati Basilica
- Kakheti: Bodbe Monastery, Sighnaghi and its walls, Telavi market, Alaverdi Cathedral, a qvevri winery tasting and a supra with the family
- Georgian Military Highway: Ananuri Fortress and the Friendship Monument
- Kazbegi: Gergeti Trinity Church by 4x4
- Mtskheta: Jvari Monastery and Svetitskhoveli Cathedral
- Debed Canyon: Haghpat Monastery
- Dilijan: Haghartsin Monastery and Sharambeyan Street
- Lake Sevan: Sevanavank
- Yerevan: Tsitsernakaberd and the Armenian Genocide Museum, the Matenadaran, the Cascade and the GUM market
- Geghard Monastery, Garni Temple and lavash baking in Garni
- Khor Virap, Noravank and a winery tasting in Areni
- All entrance fees for included sights
Meals
- 11 breakfasts
- 7 lunches, including khinkali in Pasanauri, lunch by Lake Sevan, a lavash lunch with a family in Garni and lunch at a winery in Areni
- 3 dinners: a welcome dinner in Tbilisi, a supra with a winemaking family in Kakheti and a farewell dinner in Yerevan
- Wine tastings at two family wineries
Not included
- International flights to Tbilisi and from Yerevan
- Visas, if your passport needs them
- Travel insurance
- Meals not listed above
- Drinks, apart from the winery tastings and the wine at the supra
- Tips for guides and drivers
- Optional activities, such as a sulphur bath in Tbilisi or the Areni-1 cave
- Personal expenses
Extras
- Room of your own
- CAD 850 (estimated price)
When you can go
Dates and prices
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Questions
Prices in these answers apply from Jan 1, 2027. Black Friday offer: 9% off the small-group price for requests received by Dec 1, 2026. From CAD 4,035 per person. Dec 2 to Dec 31: from CAD 4,260. From Jan 1, 2027: from CAD 4,435.
What does the price include?
Eleven nights in central hotels, 11 breakfasts, 7 lunches and 3 dinners including a supra with a Kakheti winemaking family, two winery tastings, airport transfers at both ends, a private vehicle and driver in each country, the Gergeti 4x4 and the Narikala cable car, your See Sight Tours guide throughout, and every entry in the day plan.
How big is the group?
The small-group trip runs with 7 to 12 guests, never more. That is small enough to fit in one vehicle, around one table at a supra and inside the rock-cut chapels at Geghard, and to change the plan on the day when the weather or the light calls for it.
Who leads the trip, and does the guide change at the border?
One See Sight Tours guide leads the whole trip, from Tbilisi airport to Yerevan airport, and crosses the border with you. Local site guides join only where a site requires them. The vehicle and driver change at the border, so you have a local driver who knows the roads in each country.
How fit do I need to be?
Moderately fit. Expect 2 to 4 hours a day on foot on cobbles, steps and uneven stone. Gergeti Trinity Church at about 2,170 m is reached by 4x4, with an optional hike of about 400 m of ascent. Every demanding stop has an easier way, and you can sit out any walk.
I am travelling solo. Do I pay a single supplement?
Only if you want a room of your own, which is from CAD 850 more and shown before you book. Everything else is the same for solo travellers: the same table, the same vehicle and the same activities, with no other charge for travelling alone.
How long are the drives?
Most days are under four hours of driving. The longest is day 5, about 235 km and four and a half hours from Telavi to Kazbegi, broken at Ananuri and by a sit-down lunch. The border day is about four hours plus around an hour at the crossing.
How does the border crossing between Georgia and Armenia work?
We cross at Sadakhlo-Bagratashen, about an hour and a quarter south of Tbilisi. You show your passport to Georgian exit control and Armenian entry control, which usually takes about an hour depending on the queue. Your guide stays with you, and our Armenian driver meets the group on the other side.
Is it monastery after monastery?
No. Both countries are full of old churches and monasteries, but we visit three at most on any day and keep the visits focused. Between them are Telavi's market, a supra, a qvevri winery, lavash baking in Garni, a winery lunch in Areni and free afternoons in Tbilisi and Yerevan.
Do I need a visa for Georgia and Armenia?
Canadian, US, UK and EU passport holders can currently visit both countries without a visa for a trip like this. Check the rules for your own passport before booking, and travel on a passport valid for at least six months. We confirm the entry rules again with your final itinerary.
When is the best time to go?
May to October. May, June, September and early October bring mild days and green or golden hills; July and August are hot in Yerevan, so we tour in the mornings. We do not run in winter because snow can close the road over the Jvari Pass to Kazbegi.
How does booking work?
Choose a start date and request to book. We check availability and confirm your trip within 24 hours, and no payment is taken when you send the request. Prices are per person sharing a room, with taxes included; the small group starts from CAD 4,435 and a private trip from CAD 7,985.
Can I travel on my own dates?
Yes. The private version runs for your party only on a date you choose, with your own guide and vehicle. If you would rather travel independently on your own dates, send us an inquiry from the dates section and we will quote the same route with drivers, hotels and local guides.
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