June 12, 2027

After landing late at night, we will transfer you to our luxurious hotel, the Tufenkian Historic Yerevan for a good night’s rest.

Hotel: Tufenkian Historic Yerevan

The next day our guide will meet you to take you on a tour of Yerevan. Visits planned are: mass at Etchimiadzine, the Vatican of all Armenians, the museum and monument of the Armenian Genocide, lunch at Cascade, dinner at the hotel.

Hotel: Tufenkian Historic Yerevan

Lunch: Cascade

Dinner: Tufenkian Historic Yerevan

After breakfast, we leave by bus to Tsaghkunk. You will take possessions of your e-bikes and familiarise yourself with its use. You will visit the Belgian-Armenian forest, distant about 3,5 km. It was, planted by My Forest Armenia in 2025 and inaugurated by Queen Mathilde in October of the same year. After returning to the main road, you will bike to Tsaghkunk restaurant and Main House. The main house is a XVII century dwelling, that has been restored and you can experience life of the people in the villages. You will prepare and bake the traditional lavash, an Armenian flat bread that bakes in the tonir, an oven buried in the soil. Afterwards, you will have an excellent lunch in the restaurant which is internationally recognised as one of the best in the world.

Distance: 60km

Hotel: Aurelia hotel.

Lunch: Tsaghkunk restaurant

Dinner: Aurelia hotel

After breakfast, you will go by bus to visit the Haghartsin Monastery (X to XIII century) A beautiful complex of three churches in the middle of a forest. After returning to Dilijan, you will take your e-bikes to go to the Benjamin Gumuchdjian nursery in Gugark near Vanadzor a 37 km ride. It’s a bucolic ride through beautiful landscapes. Lunch at the nursery. After lunch you will have a thorough visit of the nursery and greenhouse and discover all the behind-the-scenes preparations from seed preparations to growing seedlings necessary to accomplish large-scale reforestation. Afterwards, you will continue by bike to the MagHay B&B hotel in Vanadzor, a downhill ride all the way to the hotel. Dinner at the hotel.

Distance: 47 km

After breakfast, you will go by bike to go to recent sites planted by My Forest Armenia in Lernajour. You will ride through remote mountain roads that wind through stunning landscapes. You will leave your bikes near a mountain river and our 4x4 pickups will take you to Lernajour 1 & 2, a planting site planted in 2024. Biking up is reserved for the fittest, the road is not to steep but it is rocky in some places.You will picnic up on the hills with beautiful views on the surrounding mountain ranges. After lunch, you will be brought down and return by bike to the next hotel, Anginé in the village of Arjut. Arrival is early (around 15h) so you will have some free time before dinner.

Hotel: Angine

After breakfast, you will leave by bus to go to My Forest Armenia’s first planting site of more than 100ha in 2021: Jrashen 1. After the visit, you will take your bike to go down to the village of Jrashen (Watertown) and then through a little travelled road to the town of Shirakamut, which was the epicentre of the devastating earthquake of 1988 and also our very first planting site in the fall of 2020. After a visit of “magical valley” where our trees have grown remarkably fast, will go to our new afforestation site: Dzorashen and the site where the Charles Aznavour Forest is being created. You will picnic in the mountains at a “bisetka,” a watering point with a table and benches with beautiful views of the surrounding landscape. After lunch, you will bike down to cross the river, where the bus will be waiting on the other side to take you to the town of Gyumri, Armenia’s second largest city and its most charming one.

Distance: 40 km

Hotel: Araks

Lunch: picnic at the Charles Aznavour Forest

Dinner: Gyumri Express

After breakfast, you will take your bike to do a tour around the Akhurian river to go to the Marmashen monastery, set in a dramatic landscape typical of the Armenian highlands scenery. From the monastery, you will go by bus back to Gyumri. After lunch, there will be a walking visit of the city and two churches on Vardanants square. After the visit, you will have 1 hour of free time before boarding the bus to head back by bus towards Yerevan. You will stop at the Alluria winery for a tour with wine degustation. In the evening, you will be back at the Tufenkian hotel for dinner and a well-deserved rest.

Distance: 40 km

Hotel: Tufenkian Hotel

Lunch: Sheeraz restaurant

Wine-tasting: Alluria winery

Dinner: Tufenkian hotel 

Visit Yerevan in the morning with the History museum and Vernissage. After lunch: free time. Dinner at the hotel and after dinner transfer to the airport.