Gavar Voyage Tips and guide

Gavar (Գավառ) is a town of 18,000 (2022) in Armenia's Lake Sevan Region on the shores of Gavaraget river. This article also includes nearby Noratus.

The town is dominated by the Gegham mountains from the west and the Lake Sevan from the east.

40°23′13″N 45°8′52″E

Map of Gavar

Gavar is about 35 minutes south of Sevan via routes M10 and H39, and 98 km east of Yerevan.

• 40.352645.13021 Dari Glukh (Բերդի գլուխ). Small fortification at the edge of town.  (updated Apr 2026)
• 40.43272845.1078692 Hayravank Monastery (on the lake shore 12 km south of Sevan). A rarely visited monastery overlooking Lake Sevan. It's a 9th- to 12th-century complex with church, chapel and "gavit" or entrance hall, surrounded by many "khachkars" - elaborately carved gravestones. Nearby are remains of a Bronze Age settlement.  (updated Aug 2019)

• 40.3744445.1823 Noratus Khachkar Cemetery. 20 km south of Sevan, near Gavar, is Noratus village, with the largest khachkar cemetery in the world. Elaborate carvings describe the lives and often gruesome deaths of those buried here. With a small burial chapel. Another 500 m south is the tiny church of Daputs Vank.  (updated Oct 2018)

• 40.349845.12731 Almav, Զորավար Անդրանիկի 1 (translates to Zoravar Andranik 1), ☏ +374 77 118060.  (updated Apr 2026)

• 40.335145.11851 HacArat Guest House (ՀացԱռատ Հյուրատուն), Kareyan St 14, ☏ +374 44 841113.  (updated Apr 2026)