Yerevan Prepares for the Apricot Festival
12 May 2026
Preparations are underway in Yerevan for the annual international apricot festival "Garun." This year marks the 14th edition, with guests from 40 countries.
Preparations are underway in Yerevan for the annual international apricot festival "Garun." This year marks the 14th edition, with guests from 40 countries.
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Old Khndzoresk — a two-hundred-year-old cave town in a gypsum gorge. A suspension bridge over the chasm, a descent to the cave dwellings, the Surb Tadevos church.
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A one-day food tour: the Areni-1 cave with 6,100-year-old winemaking artefacts, a tasting at a family winery, and lunch by the red cliffs of Noravank.
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The pagan temple of Garni, the Garni gorge with its basalt «Symphony of Stones», and Geghard — a 4th-century monastery carved into the rock. Lunch with lavash baking in a tonir.
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