Yerevan Airport – Yerevan City Tour ( History Museum) – St. Hripsime – Etchmiadzin – Zvartnots– Garni – Geghard – Lavash Bread Making – Khor Virap– Areni –  Noravank – Sevan Lake – Sanahin –Tblisi – Tblisi City Tour  (Trinity Cathedral, Metekhi Church, Narikhala Fortress, Anchiskhati Church, The Old District, Sulfur Baths, Sioni Cathedral, National Museum) – Mtskheta- Uplistskhe -Tblisi (Jvari Monastery, Svetitskhoveli Cathedral, Samtavro Monastery, Uplistsikhe, Cave Town) – Kakheti – The Cradle of Wine (Tsinandali Museum,Traditional Lunch with wine tasting, Bodbe The City of Love) – Tbilisi Airport

• DAY 1 : ARRIVAL TO YEREVAN - YEREVAN CITY TOUR ( HISTORY MUSEUM)

  Arrival at Zvartnots, International Airport, meet & assist, transfer to the hotel. After check in and having some free time at the hotel, leaving to participate Yerevan City Tour. The tour will start with a panoramic Yerevan City tour. Then visiting the History Museum of Armenia. It has a national collection of 400,000 objects and was founded in 1920.Free time in the city. Back to the hotel and overnight.

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  DAY 2: YEREVAN- ST. HRIPSIME - ETCHMIADZIN – ZVARTNOTS – YEREVAN

  Breakfast at the hotel. Transfer to visit the church of the Holy Virgin St. Hripsime. Continue to visit Pilgrimage to Etchmiadzin Cathedral, the first official Christian church in the world, built in 301 A.D. Then visit Zvartnots Temple which is an outstanding monument of world architecture, an evidence of the high level development of the artistic and engineering thought in the 7th –century. Back to Yerevan. Overnight.

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  DAY 3: YEREVAN – GARNI - GEGHARD - LAVASH BREAD MAKING - YEREVAN

  Breakfast at the hotel. Visiting Garni temple which is the unique survived example of Armenian heathen culture. Then heading to the beautiful Christian Monastery of Geghard. This ancient monastery was carved out of solid rock between the 11th and 13th centuries. Tasting the freshly made Armenian lavash bread. Bus transfer to Yerevan and dinner in Yerevan.

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  DAY 4: YEREVAN – KHOR VIRAP– ARENI - NORAVANK – YEREVAN

  Breakfast at the hotel. Depart from Yerevan to the historic Monastery Khor Virap, the site where St. Gregory the Illuminator was imprisoned. From here you can enjoy the breathtaking view of Biblical Mount Ararat. On the way you can enjoy Armenian wine at Areni village winery. Then visiting Noravank which is a 13th century Armenian monastery and has a unique constructive and sculptural work.

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  DAY 5: YEREVAN – SEVAN LAKE – SANAHIN –TBLISI

  Breakfast at the hotel. Transfer to visit Lake Sevan, which is the second highest fresh water lake in the world (1900 Meters above the sea). The lake is also famous for its peninsula and medieval church complex built in 874.You can enjoy the beautiful landscape and crystal water as well as fresh air. Then drive to the medieval monastery Sanahin from 10th-13th centuries, precious examples of Armenian architecture. After lunch we will continue our journey to Georgia, crossing the border from Sadakhlo. We will drive to Tbilisi. Check in to the hotel and overnight.

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  DAY 6 : TBILISI CITY TOUR (TRINITY CATHEDRAL, METEKHI CHURCH, NARIKHALA, FORTRESS, ANCHISKHATI CHURCH, THE OLD DISTRICT, SULFUR BATHS, SIONI CATHEDRAL NATIONAL MUSEUM)

  After having breakfast at the hotel, Tbilisi City Tour will start.Georgia’s ancient and vibrant capital city spreads out on both banks of the Mtkvari River, and is surrounded on three sides by mountains. The most widely accepted variant of the legend of Tbilisi’s founding says that in the mid-5th century AD, King Vakhtang I Gorgasali was hunting in the heavily wooded region with a falcon. The King’s falcon allegedly caught or injured a pheasant during the hunt, after which both birds fell into a nearby hot spring and died from burns. King Vakhtang became so impressed with the hot springs that he decided to cut down the forest and build a city. The name Tbilisi derives from the Old Georgian word «tbili», meaning warm.

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  DAY 7: TBLISI- MTSKHETA- UPLISTSKHE -TBLISI (JVARI MONASTERY, SVETITSKHOVELI CATHEDRAL, SAMTAVRO MONASTERY, UPLISTSIKHE, CAVE TOWN)

  Breakfast at the hotel and transfer to Mtskheta. The historic churches of Mtskheta, former capital of Georgia, are outstanding examples of medieval religious architecture in the Caucasus. They show the high artistic and cultural level attained by this ancient kingdom. The Holy Cross Monastery of Jvari, Svetitskhoveli Cathedral and Samtavro Monastery are key monuments of medieval Georgia. The complex of the Svetitskhoveli Cathedral in the centre of the town includes the cathedral church, the palace and the gates of the Katolikos Melchizedek. The historical monuments in Mtskheta are protected by UNESCO World Heritage. Transfer back to Tbilisi. Transfer to Uplistsikhe. Uplistsikhe Cave Town-Fortress is situated on a rocky massif in 15 km eastwards to town Gori on the left bank of the river Mtkvari. Uplistsikhe was an important religious, political and cultural center in the Hellenistic and the late Antique periods (IV c. B.C. – IV c. A.D.). The town was in its heyday as far back as the 9th – 11th centuries. In 13th century, it was ravaged by Mongols. Living quarters and premises for communal purposes occupy a cliff territory of almost 8 hectares and are connected by footways. The majority of the caves are devoid of any decorations. The central ensemble, a big hall with coffered tunnel-vaulted ceiling, and the palace complex, is the most interesting one architecturally. The cave complexes dating to high medieval times usually included a number of small hall-churches beside the dwellings. Transfer back to Tbilisi.

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  DAY 8: KAKHETI - THE CRADLE OF WINE (TSINANDALI MUSEUM, WINE TASTING FAMILY,TRADITIONAL LUNCH WITH WINE TASTING, BODBE THE CITY OF LOVE)

  Breakfast at the hotel. Transfer to Wine Region – Kakheti. Wine is part of Georgian heritage including architecture, poetry, and songs, and is associated with celebrations, holidays and rituals. Wine making remained the basic of the Georgian economy for centuries. It is a symbol of regeneration, of wealth and plenty. The continuity of wine making tradition is attested by the diversity of endemic varieties. There are 525 endemic varieties of grapevine identified in Georgia as of today. Georgia is one of the oldest wine producing regions of the world. Its long wine making history has given rise to unique methods of production. Wine in this county is aged and stored in special cone-shaped clay vessel known as a Kvevri. Each kvevri holds between 300 and 500 liters and is placed in the ground to help regulate storage temperature, keeping it between 14 and 15 C. Making wine in kvevri, is ancient traditional Georgian method now protected as intangible heritage by UNESCO. Tsinandali is a village in Kakheti, Georgia, noted for the estate and its historic winery which once belonged to the 19th-century aristocratic poet Alexander Chavchavadze (1786–1846). Here you will have a chance to taste the unique Tsinandali wine. Signaghi, also known as “city of love”, is an ancient Georgian small town 100km from Tbilisi. What is Signaghi? Imagine a large mountain, rising alone in the center of a huge valley. On the mountain – city fortress, with stunning views of the Alazani Valley and in the distance – Main Caucasian ridge with snow-capped peaks. Here, to a natural fortress, the king of eastern Georgia, Irakli II, without violating freedom of kizik, relocated residents from different districts of Kakheti and Kartli. Since then, architecturally this mountain town with small, twisted streets resembles old Tbilisi, and by location –Jerusalem. Transfer to Tbilisi. Overnight

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  DAY 9: TRANSFER TO TBILISI AIRPORT

  Breakfast at the hotel. Transfer to Tbilisi International Airport.