The road passes in Paleogene, manly middle-upper Eocene then middle-upper Jurassic essentially volcanic and volcanoclastic formations; visiting Goshavank ...
18 day trip. DESCRIPTION (suggested main tour) Day 1 Transfer to hotel. The programme depends on arrival time.
Night in Yerevan
Day 2 Garni-Stone Symphony-Geghard Monastery-Garni- Dinner
Night in Garni
On the road, see the landslide and its results of Voghjaberd village; Garni valley of columnar basaltic flows; Garni temple; Geghard Monastery and its around tufaceous formations of upper Pliocene.
Day 3 Garni-Stone lake-South peak of Aragats mountain-Crater-Waterfall
Night in tents
Visiting the Pleistocene formations of basalts, andesites and dacites.
Day 4 Waterfall-Aragats village-Aghveran
Night in Aghveran
Again in the Pleistocene formations of basalts, andesites and dacites; on the road Neopleistocene volcanics; Precambrian basement of diferent metamorphic rocks, and upper Jurassic tonalitic intrusion in those formations.
Day 5 Aghveran-Bjni-Meghradzor-Fioletovo –Dilijan
Night in Dilijan
In Precambrian basement: metagranites and then visiting Bjni Monastery; transfering to the Marmaric valley where Precambrian to Paleogene formations are widespread; by walking to traverse the Pambak montain rang and arriving to Margahovit village: the road passed within Jurassic (?) volcanic, Paleogene volcanic and intrusive formations including Alcaline complex of magmatics.
Day 6 Dilijan-Goshavank-Ijevan-Noyemberyan-Akhtala-Haghpat
Night in Haghpat
The road passes in Paleogene, manly middle-upper Eocene then middle-upper Jurassic essentially volcanic and volcanoclastic formations; visiting Goshavank Monastery; then the road continues in Jurassic manly volcanic and upper Cretaceous carbonate formations in Ijevan-Noyemberyan section; in Akhtala-Haghpat part again lower(?)-middle Jurassic volcanic (including pillow flows) and intrusive (middle and upper Jurasic) formations are widespread; visiting Akhtala and Haghpat Monasteries. Seeing the doleritic basalts columnar flows of upper Pliocene in Debed valley.
Day 7 Haghpat-Sanahin-Odzun-Stepanavan-Gyumri
Night in Gyumri
The road passes in middle Jurassic then middle and upper Eocene mainly volcanogenic formations from Haghpat to Gyumri; visiting Sanahin and Odzun Monasteries; on the road, near the Spitak town seeing the rupture of 1988 Spitak earthquake; visiting Gyumri – a City of Culture.
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Day 8 Gyumri-Amasia-Yerevan
Night in Yerevan
From Gyumri to Amasia village the road passes in tuffs of Eopleistocene and volcanic and volcanoclastic formations of middle Eocene; then visiting the Amasia ophiolite (as an easternmost part of Lesser Caucasus ophiolite belt) to see the lithology of it and different contacts between those lithological units.
Day 9 Yerevan-Khor Virap-Avshar-Khosrov-Yelpin-Areni-Yeghegnadzor
Night in Yeghegnadzor
Arriving Khor Virap Monastery and the round hill consists of Devonian and Permian mainly carbonate facies of sediments of Gondwanan self; next to Avshar village Sari-pap hill is of mainly Permian in age; visiting Vedi river valley in Khosrov State Reserve to see the Vedi ophiolite nap’s trusting contact over the Cenomanian limestone and Turonian flysch deposits; then the road passes in Paleozoic, Eocene and partly upper Cretaceous series, while arriving in Yeghegnadzor a Wine break in village Areni.
Day 10 Yeghegnadzor-Getap-Noravank-Vayots Sar-Ughtasar
Night in tents
Next to Getap village on the left bank of the river Arpa a nummulitic horizon of terrigenous series of Eocene is cut and turned by a small intrusion of granitoids of Oligocene; seeing the transgressive contact of and overthrustings in carbonates of Eocene over the Devonian series; visiting Noravank Monastery where the Paleozoic red-colored formations made a circus; Climbing young volcanoes of Vayots Sar and/or Ughtasar.
Day 11 Ughtasar-Lake above Tsghuk village
Night in tents
Trekking on 2500-3300 m elevations, seeing a number volcanic formations and lava tongues. One of Armenia's least known and interesting attractions with an abundance of ancient petroglyphs which are between four and seven thousand years old.
Day 12 Lake above Tsghuk village-Tsghuk village-Qarahunj-Tatev-Goris
Night in Goris
Visiting the Observatory of Qarahunj, then Tatev; arriving by cable-car to the Tatev Monastery; arriving Goris city, the road passes mainly in upper Pliocene volcanic and volcanogenic series
Day 13 Goris-Kapan-Qajaran-Meghri
Night in Meghri
From Goris to Kapan cities the highway passes mainly in the middle and upper Jurassic volcanic, lower Cretaceous carbonate facies of rocks; from Kapan to Kajaran similar formations of Jurassic and Cretaceous, as well as Devonian carbonate series are widespread before arriving the Meghri pluton; Kajaran-Meghri transect passes in various composition of plutonic rocks of this pluton that are middle-upper Eocene to upper Oligocene in age.
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Day 14 Meghri-Shikahogh-Kapan-Shushi
Night in Shushi
From Meghri town, continuing by the left slope of Araks valey the road cuts the metamorphic narrow belt of Cretaceous (?) deposits, then through the Meghri pluton rises up; then passes the larger tonalite-granitic intrusion of Tsav and into the upper Jurassic formations arrives to Kapan city. After Goris, up to Shushi town the highway passes the upper then lower Cretaceous sedimentary deposits, lower(?)-middle Jurassic mainly pillow lavas cut by the middle Jurassic plagiogranites; on the main Lisagor pass it crossed so considered ophiolitic suture followed again nice pillowed lavas and tufaceous deposits as well; visiting Shushi Monastery and Geological museum (?).
Day 15 Shushi-Jdrduz-Waterfalls-Stepanakert-Vank village
Night in Vank village
From Shushi to Stepanakert and then to Vank village is the predominance of middle and upper Jurassic mainly volcanic formations;
Day 16 Vank Village-Gandzasar-Drmbon village-Dadivank-Vardenis-Martuni
Night in Martuni
After visiting Gandzasar Monastery, the road continues to Drmbon village (Sarsang water reservoir) by the valley of Tar-tar river cuts the Jurassic volcanic, upper Cretaceous terrigen, then Mesozoic ophiolitic series with interesting relationships of various origin and aged deposits; visiting Dadivank Monastery; continue climbing to the Sotk pass within ophiolitic mélange series and arriving Martuni by Vardenis.
Day 17 Martuni-Sevan (Eastern side)-Yerevan
Night in Yerevan
Returning back to Vardenis and then in NE coast of Sevan lake in some (e.g. 3-4) valleys seeing Sevan ophiolite lithologies and tectonic contacts in those formations and more recent ones; After Shorzha village the rod passes in the Eocene volcanogenic series up to Sevan town; arriving Yerevan.
Day 18 Yerevan-City tour-Farewell Dinner-Departure
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