Mount Ararat Base Camp Tour (5 days)

Mount Ararat Base Camp Tour (5 days)

Day 1: Transfer from Airport to Dogubayazit

Meet our tour guide at the airport (Iğdır/Van/Ağrı)

Transfer to Dogubeyazit (Igdir/50 minutes/distance 53 km) Van airport (2 hours 21 minutes/170 km) Agri airport (1.5 hours/100 km)

Visit to Doğubeyazıt covered bazaar, which bears the traces of the historical silk road period at the foot of Mount Ararat

Visit to the historic Beyazit mosque (Ottoman)

Visit to İshakpaşa Palace built by the Ottoman Empire in the 17th century with Baroque and Rococo architecture

Visit to Dogubeyazit museum

Evening hotel accommodation in Dogubeyazit

Day 2 Transfer from Dogubeyazit to Mount Ararat Base Camp (3200m)

Open buffet breakfast at the hotel in the morning (8:00) Meet your Mount Ararat hiking guide at the hotel (9:00)

Pack snacks and water for hiking Mount Ararat

We will reach the main camp of Mount Ararat after walking for 4-5 hours. Tea, coffee, cold drinks and snacks will be ready for us at the main camp.

We will pitch our tents together. Free time (exploring, taking photos, learning Kurdish dances)

Dinner at the tables set up outside accompanied by the spectacular Mount Ararat sunset

Evening accommodation in a tent under the stars at Mount Ararat base camp.

In the morning (8:00) open buffet breakfast and transfer to Dogubeyazit (2 hours)

Day 3 Mount Ararat Transfer from base camp to Dogubeyazit

Visit to Noah’s ark (It is believed to be the place where the ark stopped during Noah’s flood and the first place where humanity set foot. It is a mystical food mentioned in the holy books of the Torah and the Bible).

Diyadin hot springs and Turkish barbecue

Evening hotel accommodation in Dogubeyazit.

Day 4 Transfer from Dogubeyazit to Fish Lake

Breakfast buffet at the hotel in the morning (8:00) Meet your tour guide (9:00) Transfer to Fish Lake, approximately 60 km/1 hour away

Four-hour trekking to small mountains and nature around the fish lake

Dinner will be in a local restaurant with local fish dishes

Evening accommodation in a tent at Fish Lake

Breakfast on the beach at the fish lake in the morning

Transfer to Dogubeyazit

Overnight stay in Dogubeyazit hotel.

Day 5 Transfer to Airport

Say goodbye to our guide at the airport

Leave Dogubeyazit with beautiful memories