September 26, 2026

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

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, lunch at the museum and monument of the Armenian Genocide, Cascade, dinner at the hotel.

After breakfast, we leave by bus to Tsaghkunk. You will prepare and bake the tradional lavash, an Armenian flat bread that bakes in the tonir, an oven buried in the soil. After a invogariting coffee, you will take your e-bikes to visit the Belgian-Armenian forest, planted by My Forest Armenia in 2025 and inqugurated by Queen Mathilde in October of the same year. Then we will continue to the Sevanavank, a monastery from the XIIth century, perched on a peninsulal on the high altitude Sevan lake. Lunch at Dzovaghyugh. Then we will bike taking the beautiful highland mountain pass to Semyonovka to enter the province of Tavush and bikle downhill through the luxurious forest of the National Park of Yerevan to the resort town of Dilijan. Night at the Hover hotel

After breakfast, you will take your e-bikes to go to the Benjamin Gumuchdjian nursery in Gugark near Vanadzor. 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. Dinner at the hotel.

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 walk up to a planting site planted in 2024 You will picnic up on the hills with beautiful views on the surrounding mountain ranges. After lunch, you will walk down and return by bike to the next hotel, Angin in the village of Arjut.

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 a short 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, wich was the epicentre of the devastating earthquake of 1988 and also our very first planting site in the fall of 2020. From there you will go to the Trchkan waterfalls and have picnic there. After lunch and a swim (?) we will continue by bike to our new afforestation site Dzorashen and the site where the Charles Aznavour Forest is being planted. From there you will continue by bus to the twon of Gyumri, Armenia’s second largest city and its most charming one.

After breakfast, you will take your bike to go to the Marmashen monastery, set in a dramatic landscape typical of the Armenian highlands scenery. After returning by bike, lunch will be at a restaurant in Gyumri. After lunch, there will be a short walking visit of the city. After the visit, you will head back by bus towards Yerevan. You will stop at the Alluria winery for a tour with wine degustation and dinner. In the evening, you will be back at the Tufenkian hotel

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