Discover the holy city of Armenia on this full-day guided tour to Echmiadzin. Learn how to cook dolma and enjoy a traditional lunch. Note: The tour might be in two languages (English and Russian).

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Duration 6 hours: Check availability to see starting times.
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Live tour guide: English, Russian
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Highlights

Explore Echmiadzin's culture and history with an expert local guide
Tuck into a delicious traditional Armenian lunch
Visit the Echmiadzin Cathedral and see Christian relics

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Discover the world’s first Christian cathedral and the holy land of Armenians accompanied by an expert local guide. Learn how to cook traditional dolma in a cooking master class. Meet your guide in Yerevan and hop on your comfortable tour vehicle to head to Echmiadzin. Begin your tour by visiting the 7th-century Zvartnots Cathedral, the first of many UNESCO heritage sites on the tour. Explore St. Hripsime church, constructed in 618 A.D. on the sepulcher of a Christian nun who fled from the Roman Empire. Take part in a master cooking class and learn to make dolma. Enjoy a full traditional Armenian meal. Head to the Echmiadzin Cathedral, and visit the museum of Christian relics, including pieces of the Holy Cross and Noahs' Ark, as well as the spear which wounded Jesus.

Includes

Comfortable tour vehicle
WIFI onboard
Expert guide
Refreshments
Dolma cooking class
Traditional lunch
Entrance fees

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Pregnant women

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Please arrive 20 minutes before the activity starting time.

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The trip was fantastic and extremely very well planned by the agency. We had the opportunity to see all the sights listed on the tour as well as culturally immerse ourselves in dolma making. The guide was very knowledgable about the places we went to, and could answer nay and every question we asked. Would highly recommend this tour to others.

December 11, 2022

absolutely amazing the history the guide the transport and the lunch. I only wished that we did not had the language barrier as most couldn't speak the language it would had been even nicer.

November 16, 2022

From Yerevan: Echmiadzin Full-Day Trip and Cooking Class

From Yerevan: Echmiadzin Full-Day Trip and Cooking Class

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