Mount Ararat Expedition (5165 m.)
- 192 hours
- Guided in English
- Private tour
- Mobile ticket
Highlights
MOUNT ARARAT EXPEDITION 8 days – 7 night trekking and climbing. The southern route spreads the climb over three days up and one day down, using two campsites at 3200m and 4200 meters, and mules to carry supplies to the first camp. It starts from Eliköyü, an abandoned village in the foothills and sticks to a ridge for much of the way, thus avoiding the Ulker glacier which careers down the face into deep and jumbled gorges below. The path, though rocky, is clearly marked. Above 5000m are permanent ice fields, so crampons, ice axes and ropes are required. The summit is reached via a long ridge and is no more than a rounded hump marked by cairns
Inclusions
What's included
- Lunch
- Dinner
- Breakfast
What's not
- Gratuities
- National Park Tax 50 USD per person
Cancellation
All sales are final. No refund is available for cancellations.
Reviews
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Know before you go
- Pickup
- Pickup is offered, or you can meet at the starting point.
- Ticket type
- Mobile or paper ticket accepted
- Operated by
- Overland Travel Trekking
- Not recommended for travelers with spinal injuries
- Not recommended for pregnant travelers
- Not recommended for travelers with poor cardiovascular health
- Travelers should have a high level of physical fitness
How it compares in Van
- Its from-price is 350% above the median of the 5 experiences we list in Van.
- By number of reviews it ranks 1 of 5.
About Van
Van is a lakeside city in eastern Turkey with an ancient Urartian citadel, a Holy Cross church on an island and a famously generous breakfast table.
Van lies on the eastern shore of Lake Van, a vast soda lake ringed by mountains on the high plateau of eastern Turkey. The old city grew beneath the rock of Van Fortress, a long limestone ridge that was the citadel of the Urartian kingdom nearly three thousand years ago, and cuneiform inscriptions are still cut into its cliff, one of them left by the Persian king Xerxes.
Top-ranked sights in Van: Akdamar Island.
