Dilijan, Parz Lake, Haghartsin & Goshavank

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   Hotel in YerevanPick-up at your address at the chosen time09:00

   ≈ 95 min by car · 97 km

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   Dilijan old town, Sharambeyan streetOld Dilijan occupies the short pedestrian Sharambeyan Street in the town centre. Two-storey houses with stone ground floors, carved wooden balconies and outdoor staircases follow the 19th-century architecture of Dilijan. The ensemble is a restoration: a reserve-museum of folk architecture opened here in 1983 on the initiative of the artist Hovhannes Sharambeyan, and the quarter was rebuilt in the 2000s. Today the street has craft workshops and shops, cafés, a hotel and viewpoints over the town and the mountains.10:35–11:05

   

   

   

   

   

   

   

   

   

   

   

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   Old Dilijan occupies the short pedestrian Sharambeyan Street in the town centre. Two-storey houses with stone ground floors, carved wooden balconies and outdoor staircases follow the 19th-century architecture of Dilijan. The ensemble is a restoration: a reserve-museum of folk architecture opened here in 1983 on the initiative of the artist Hovhannes Sharambeyan, and the quarter was rebuilt in the 2000s. Today the street has craft workshops and shops, cafés, a hotel and viewpoints over the town and the mountains.

   ≈ 20 min by car · 14 km

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   Haghartsin MonasteryHaghartsin is a working monastery of the 10th to 13th centuries on a wooded promontory near Dilijan. Its small site holds three churches, a chapel, narthexes and a refectory from 1248, a long hall whose vaults rest on intersecting arches. The main church, Astvatsatsin, rises to a tall faceted drum, and its east wall bears a carving of two figures with staffs on either side of a church model. A forest trail to the Hidden Waterfall starts at the monastery.11:25–12:25

   ≈ 20 min by car · 16 km

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   Parz Lake, walk around the lakeParz is a small lake in a forested hollow of Dilijan National Park, about 15 km by road east of Dilijan. Its Armenian name means “clear”. Wooded slopes enclose the water on three sides, a pale rock face rises above the lake, and in autumn the yellow and red foliage is reflected in it. An easy park loop trail circles the lake past a spring and old khachkars, and by the car park there is a restaurant, boat hire and a zipline.12:45–13:25

   ≈ 30 min by car · 25 km

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   Goshavank MonasteryGoshavank is a monastery of the late 12th and 13th centuries in the village of Gosh, on a wooded slope in Tavush not far from Dilijan. It was founded by the jurist and fabulist Mkhitar Gosh, in whose time a monastic school worked here. The main church with a four-pillared narthex, two more churches and a two-storey book depository topped by a bell tower stand in a close group. At the entrance to the Church of St. Gregory the Illuminator stands a khachkar by the master Poghos from 1291, with fine lace-like carving.13:55–14:40

   ≈ 120 min by car · 119 km

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   Hotel in YerevanReturn to the same or another address in the city≈ 18:00

Driving times assume no traffic and are based on OpenStreetMap as of November 11, 2026; the schedule includes another 80 min for parking, walking and breaks en route.