Flight from Bucharest to Van, Turkey

Transfer to Dogubayazit

Our guide will pick us up from the airport. From the airport we will take you to Dogubayazit – the town which is a base where all Mount Ararat trekking tours start from.
In Dogubayazit we will check-in at a hotel and have time to rest after the journey. At the evening you will have dinner in one of the local restaurants with your guide and other group members.

We will start day with breakfast. After meal we will pack all the equipment to minibus, which will take us to the foot of Ararat mountain. After about 40 minutes we will reach Cevirme village and then starting point of our Ararat trekking tour.
Porters will pack our equipment on horses, which will carry it to the Camp 1 located at an altitude 3300 m. We will take small backpacks with the most necessary stuff, water and lunch packets prepared by our cook, and we will start ascent to the campsite. After 3-4 hours we will reach the campsite, where we will pitch our tents and will have a lunch. Then we will have free time. We can walk around to familiarize with the area, take few photos or learn Kurdish dances.
At the evening we will have dinner.

• Elevation : 2200 meters to 3300 meters
• Distance : 7,3 km
• Habitat : Steppe
• Average heat : +25 - +30c (Summer season)

In the morning we will have breakfast in our kitchen tent. After meal cook will give us lunch packets and we will start acclimatization walk to Camp 2 located at 4200 m. Ascent will take 4-5 hours. After reaching higher camp and short rest we will back to Camp 1 for lunch.
Free afternoon on the campsite. At the evening we will have dinner.
There is also possibility to use different route for acclimatization ascent, much greener, with mountain streams, and what is the most important- not crowded. This alternative route will lead you till altitude 4000 m. Your guide will let you choose preferred route, after explaining you advantages and disadvantages of both paths.
We are only one company which offer Mount Ararat acclimatization walk by two different routes.

• Elevation : 3300 meters to 4200 meters
• Distance : 6,5 km x 2 times
• Habitat : Steppe
• Average heat : +20 - +25 (Summer season)

In the morning we will pack our equipment and tents, eat breakfast and start ascent to Ararat Camp 2. Horses will take our luggage to higher camp. After 4-5 hours we will reach the campsite, where lunch and hot drinks will wait for us. Then we will pitch our tents and take a rest. We can use free time for preparing our equipment for the following day- ascent to the summit of Ararat.
At the evening we will have dinner (earlier than previous days, because we should go to sleep as early as possible).

• Elevation : 3300 meters to 4200 meters
• Distance : 6,5 km
• Habitat : Steppe
• Average heat : +20 - +25 (Summer season)

Our guide will wake us up long before the sunrise (usually about 1-2 a.m.). It is not typical time for breakfast, but we should try to eat something (hot soup, bread, cheese, honey) and drink hot tea or coffee. Our cook will give us lunch packets and fill thermoses with hot tea. We will check last time our equipment and still in darkness we will start ascent to the summit of Mount Ararat.
We will walk about 5-6 hours, taking from time to time short breaks. On the summit we will have time to take photos and celebrating success. If the weather is good we will have opportunity to see Armenia and Iran from the Ararat top. Later we will start descent to Camp 2. On the campsite lunch and hot drinks will wait for us. 

• Elevation : 4200 meters to 5137 meters and descent to 2200 meters
• Distance : 20 - 21 km total ascent and descent
• Habitat : Alpine Tundra, Steppe
• Heat : +30 / +25 / -20(Summer season) This day you will have very cold weather during our climb to summit, after summit weather always getting hotter. So, diffirence of heat can be 60° .

We descend 2200m from the Camp 1 to the car pick-up point, that is to the cevirme village.

We say goodbye to Mt Ararat and return to Dogubayazit by minibus.

After resting a while at the hotel, we will visit Noah`s Ark to the meteor pit and after we will have a farewell dinner.

This is the day when we return home. Our local guys will transfer us to the airport, and say goodbye to the Kurdish part of Turkey and will take our flight home.