Five days across Armenia built around the Yell Sport Fest trail festival. Culture, food, curated Tavush locations, and Saturday's start as the culmination of the whole week. A small group, a private curator, everything on the ground handled.
Trails Privately is the ARMENIA Privately line where a landmark sporting event anchors the journey. The start becomes the culmination of a carefully built week: cultural, gastronomic, restorative. You choose your own pace and distance. ARMENIA Privately handles everything else.
Armenia's northern region in autumn dress: golden beech forests, monasteries in morning mist, late-season grapes in the valleys. A route beyond the classic tourist trail.
A Saturday race the whole week leads up to. By start time You are settled in, well fed and in form, so You step onto the course fresh and run for pleasure.
From 6 to 40 kilometres, Your choice, agreed in advance. The 6 km is open to anyone who walks regularly. The 15 km suits a runner with a steady weekly habit. The 40 km is a serious mountain race and assumes trail experience.
A curator for the entire journey, private transport, race registration, all meals, curated locations. One point of contact from arrival to departure.
Signature Armenian cooking, the local Tavush wine list, winery tastings, family tables with local produce. The food is a reason to come in its own right.
A small group, locations away from the tourist flow, morning light in the monasteries. Space for impressions, and time to Yourself.
22–26 October 2026. Every day prepares for the next, and Saturday is the day of the challenge.
We meet You in Yerevan through the day, timed to Your own flights. Check in, then an easy afternoon walk through the centre with an architectural historian.
Dinner with Your curator to go through the week ahead: contemporary Armenian cooking and a local wine list.
— Night in YerevanNorth after breakfast, with a short stop at the Sevan pass to see the lake in autumn light. Down into Dilijan, sometimes called Armenia's Switzerland: a walk through town, coffee, an unhurried pace. Lunch in a small local kitchen.
In the afternoon, Haghartsin monastery in the forest. Twelfth century, three churches, a vaulted narthex, a vast mulberry grove and acoustics that stop conversation. Quiet, and the sense of being somewhere very old.
Back to Dilijan by evening and check in. Early dinner, rest before the start.
— Night in DilijanEarly departure to Yenokavan. Briefing, bib pickup, gear check. The festival starts on the Yell Extreme Park meadow. You choose Your distance in advance:
You travel together, You are at the finish together, and in between You have Your own day rather than a wait.
Depart Dilijan with the group.
Arrive at Yenokavan. Runners head to the briefing and the start.
Your morning, chosen in advance:
Lunch on the festival meadow.
At the finish as Your runner comes through.
The festival together: expo, music, local food.
Every option is guided and included. You choose when You book.
Your curator meets You at the finish with cold drinks and food. In the afternoon, the festival on the meadow: expo, music, local food, an optional zipline flight.
Back to Dilijan by evening. Dinner with a Tavush wine tasting, a table with mountain views, in the mood of the finish.
— Night in DilijanAfter breakfast, out of Dilijan. First stop is Goshavank, deliberately saved for the return so it is not lost in the shadow of Haghartsin. A quiet medieval monastery and the right pace for the morning after a race.
Then Lake Sevan. Lunch on the shore: Sevan trout, water and mountains. A slow day, which is exactly what recovery looks like.
Yerevan by evening and check in. Farewell dinner at one of the city's best kitchens.
— Night in YerevanAfter breakfast, a cultural programme through Yerevan's museums: collections, manuscripts, and a curated look at Armenian art and how Armenians see themselves. The route is shaped around the group's interests.
The coffee places locals actually go to. Lunch somewhere atmospheric in the old city.
Transfer to Zvartnots on Your own flight schedule.
— Departure from ZvartnotsThe sporting part is built so that You choose Your own distance. Everything else is handled by ARMENIA Privately.
For experienced runners: an extended version including all three stages of the Stage3-100 multi-day race. The tour extends to 7 days / 6 nights. On request, and for private groups.
A curator is with the group every day, and on race day we are at the start and at the finish.
Every guest is covered by our partners for medical assistance and evacuation, including from remote terrain. We also work with Helicopters Armenia, so air evacuation is available where it is needed.
Armenia is among the ten safest countries in the world, and distances are short. The nearest hospital to the race area is under an hour away, and Yerevan is under two.
Canyons, monasteries, trails and the finish — the atmosphere in which your journey will take place.
Sport is part of Your rhythm, and in travel You want more than a standard route: events, challenge, movement.
Logistics, bookings, race registration, coordination — all handled by Your curator. You focus on the experience.
A private departure with friends or family, from two guests. A small group of up to eight. A journey that becomes a shared story.
Haghartsin and Goshavank in morning light, a Tavush wine tasting, a mulberry grove, trout on the shore of Sevan.
Every journey is assembled individually: group composition, accommodation, race distance, winery, dinner locations. Get in touch and we will send a personal proposal with pricing and route detail.