Do you want to delight your eyes with the sight of a picturesque waterfall in the mountains, breathe the healing mountain air, and just relax? We invite you to excursions to the Jermuk Waterfall in Armenia and assure you: you will be captivated by the beauty of nature and the hospitality of the locals, while our travel agency will take care of your comfort during the trip. We have been working in the field of tourist services since 2016, and during this time we have created a strong team of professionals providing high-class service in various formats at affordable prices.

Jermuk Waterfall – a natural pearl of Armenia

What could be more wonderful than water streams falling from a height and the eternal noise of water rushing over the rocks?.. These thoughts arise when looking at Jermuk Waterfall – one of the most beautiful natural attractions of Armenia. Thousands of tourists come to admire the fall of the pure glacial water from a considerable height.

Interesting facts about Jermuk Waterfall:

• Located in the southeast of Armenia, on the territory of the resort town of Jermuk, at an altitude of over 2,000 meters above sea level;
• Water flows from cliffs about 70 meters high;
• The streams of the waterfall have an unusual appearance: thin, winding, like a girl’s loose braid, which is why the second name of Jermuk Waterfall is Mermaid Hair or Mermaid Waterfall;
• The water of Jermuk Waterfall has long been attributed healing and even magical properties.

Legend of the Mermaid Waterfall

Such a poetic name for the natural object did not arise by chance. There is a beautiful legend about lovers who lived here in ancient times. Many noble young men were in love with a girl of extraordinary beauty, the daughter of a nobleman living in a castle among the mountains, and they sought her hand, but always received refusal. The beauty, however, had long loved a simple young man – the son of a shepherd, poor and unknown, but brave and handsome. The love was mutual, but no one knew about it. Every night, the girl lowered a long rope from her window in the castle above the gorge, by which her beloved climbed up to her.

But all secrets become known, and the girl’s father learned about their love and meetings. His anger was so strong that he cursed his daughter: he wished her to turn into a mermaid and remain in the water forever if she met the shepherd’s son even once again. The headstrong girl ignored her father’s words and the next time lowered not a rope, but her long hair to the young man. At that very moment, the curse came true: the girl became a mermaid, and her beautiful hair turned into the streams of the waterfall.

Attractions around Jermuk Waterfall

The beauty of the surrounding nature is unique and inimitable both on the way to the waterfall and around it. Mountain peaks and cliffs, green forests and meadows surround the road leading tourists to the attraction. But there are also other interesting places nearby that are worth seeing:

• Jermuk Cable Car – located at an altitude of 1 km near Mount Lusasar, close to the Jermuk resort. From the upper viewing platform (at an altitude of 2,480 m), a stunning view of the mountains and alpine forests opens up;
• Gndevank Monastery – a monastic complex founded in the 10th century with a church, narthex, refectory, cemetery, and other buildings, had its own irrigation canal 24 km long. The monastery was destroyed in 1604 by Shah Abbas and restored in the 1960s-70s;
• Yeghegnadzor Regional Museum of Local History – stores a large number of unique exhibits – artifacts from different periods of the region’s history. Of particular value is a unique khachkar: the cross on it connects the sky and earth symbolically depicted on the stone, and the ornament weave hides an inscription.

Book an excursion tour to Jermuk Waterfall profitably

We offer individual and group excursions to Jermuk Waterfall, which are conducted in comfortable cars and minibuses with polite Russian-speaking drivers. Excursions are accompanied by professional guides who freely speak Russian. The tour price includes only transfer and guide services; other services are paid for by tourists themselves. Book tours online on the website, via messengers, or by calling our staff.