Garni, Geghard and Khor Virap in one day from Yerevan: how to organise it and what does a private car cost?

What combines in one day: hours and price per car

Catalogue prices on November 7, 2026, per car, sedan / minivan; the current price is always on the trip page.

The Symphony of Stones gorge is part of the base trip and of the Sevan trips, but not of the Khor Virap, lavash-only and ropeway variants.

How the day works

Pickup at your hotel in Yerevan at the time you choose, 09:00 by default; Garni Temple opens at 10:00, so a pickup around 9:00 gets you there at opening. The catalogue hours include a margin for the road: of the base trip's 5 hours, 3 go to the stops themselves, and in the 8-hour trip with Khor Virap the stops add up to three and a half hours. Pure driving time without traffic, by OpenStreetMap routing: Yerevan → Khor Virap about 45 minutes, Yerevan → Garni 35–40 minutes, Garni → Geghard 10–15 minutes, Geghard → Yerevan about 45 minutes, Geghard → Sevanavank about an hour and a half, Tsaghkadzor → Yerevan about 55 minutes. In the catalogue Khor Virap comes first (it lies south of the city), then the car heads east: Azat, Garni, Geghard, with Charents Arch on the way back; you can change the order of stops by telling the driver at the start.

What is included and what you pay on the spot

The price covers the car with a driver, hotel to hotel, the planned stops with waiting at each, fuel, parking, water and a child seat; tickets, lunch and tips are not included. On the spot you pay for the Garni Temple ticket, entry to the Symphony of Stones gorge and the Zvartnots ticket; Geghard, Khor Virap, Sevanavank, Kecharis, Echmiadzin Cathedral and Haghartsin are free. The lavash baking class is paid for on site and is not part of the car price. Tickets for the Tsaghkadzor ropeway are bought on site at the operator's price, and the ropeway runs daily 10:00–17:30. For tickets it is safer to carry cash in drams. BarevTrip has one possible surcharge, at a rate known before you book: an unplanned stop, a change of route or waiting beyond what is included.

The driver drives, waits at the stops and helps with luggage but does not give a tour: telling the story of the temples is a qualified guide's job. You add a guide as an option in the booking, and the guide travels the whole route with you; the surcharge is shown on the trip page.

In winter and with children

All nine trips in the table run year-round. In winter the descent to the Symphony of Stones may be closed after heavy snow, and Lake Sevan is windy, so bring a sweater; check the opening date of the Tsaghkadzor ski season locally. The child seat is free and compulsory under 7: state the number of children and each child's age in the booking; there is no separate charge for a child. The pit at Khor Virap is reached by a narrow, steep ladder, not for small children; a long, steep stairway leads up the Sevanavank peninsula, impossible with a stroller.

On your own, in a group or with a driver

With a BarevTrip driver there is one price for the whole day, known before you book: 30,000 AMD for a sedan or 44,000 AMD for a minivan on the base trip, and that is a price per car, not per seat. You leave from your hotel at your time and the driver waits at every stop. Our drivers speak several languages — ask the dispatcher about yours. On a group excursion you pay per seat, and the departure time and stops are shared by the whole group. A taxi app charges by its own tariff at the moment you order.

What the catalogue does not offer as a one-day trip

Tatev with Dilijan, Gyumri with Dilijan, or Garni and Geghard with both Khor Virap and Sevan: there are no such trips in the catalogue. The reasoning: Tatev alone is 12 hours and 520 km, and the longest day trip in the catalogue, the Grand South Loop, runs 14 hours and 600 km, from May to October only. For anything like this there is Custom trip: a quote within two hours, around the clock; a quote request is not a booking, and free cancellation of a custom trip is up to 48 hours before it starts.

Good to know

• A sedan takes up to 3 passengers with 3 suitcases or 4 with 2, a minivan up to 7; up to 7 people in one car.
• Nothing is paid before confirmation: afterwards you pay by card via a link or in cash to the driver after the trip.
• Free cancellation up to 24 hours before pickup, Yerevan time, and one free reschedule up to the same deadline.
• The trip is sold by BarevTrip, and we are responsible for all of it: the car, the driver, the time, the route and the price.

Questions and answers

Can we go tomorrow? Yes: your request gets a code and a "we'll confirm by…" time, the dispatcher is available around the clock and confirms it at any time of day or night, and nothing is paid before confirmation.

We want Garni and Geghard and will decide about Khor Virap on the way? It is safer to choose the 8-hour trip up front: the price and timing are known before you book. A stop outside the programme is that one possible surcharge, at a rate known before you book.

Garni, Geghard and Sevan in a day — realistic? Yes, it is a ready-made trip of 9 hours and 200 km for 45,000 AMD / 62,000 AMD, with a stop in Tsaghkadzor on the way back; the variant with lavash baking, without Tsaghkadzor (230 km), is 54,000 AMD / 72,000 AMD.

There are six of us — which car and how much? A minivan, up to 7 people: 44,000 AMD for the base trip, 56,000 AMD with Khor Virap, 62,000 AMD with Sevan; the price is per car for the whole day, not per seat.