Areni village, in Armenia's Vayots Dzor region, sits beside the site of the world's oldest known winery: a 6,100-year-old wine-production complex uncovered in the nearby Areni-1 cave. Nearly every household in the village still makes[...]
Armenia is a small country with an outsized list of things to see and do — ancient monasteries on cliffs and mountain trails a world away from Yerevan's cafés. Jan Armenia Tours & Travel offers a wide range of these[...]
Armenia has more monasteries than any reasonable country needs, and you should see some of them. But if your entire trip is churches and viewpoints, you'll go home with photographs and no stories. The things people actually tell their[...]
Most day trips from Yerevan follow the same road. Garni, Geghard, Lake Sevan — beautiful, paved, but packed. You share the view with forty other people who booked the same coach. There is another version of Armenia that starts[...]
The honest answer is: there's no bad time to visit Armenia. But there are 5 months when the country shows off — when the weather, the food, the light, or the festivals make a trip genuinely unforgettable.
Here's what each of those[...]