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Hitchhiking in Armenia

Hitchhiking to Armenia

Recent reviews in Armenia

40.13884, 44.81668

A lot of tourists. Sign in Latin script should be enought.

rating: 5/5, wait: 15 min 🪧, ride: 24 km ←

―Agelon, September 2025

40.18709, 44.6147

Cars ride basically only to Geghard and Garni, so if you want to hitchhike there, it's ideal.
(Hitchhiked with friend)

rating: 5/5, wait: 15 min 🪧, ride: 15 km ↘

―Agelon, September 2025

Lots of traffic, and the stoplights at the crossroads slow cars down, which helps. It wasn’t hard to get a ride to Sevan. Overall, a good spot.

rating: 5/5, wait: 10 min, ride: 62 km ↗

―Anonymous, August 2025

40.22174, 44.45641

Theoretically a good spot to Gyumri and Ashtarak I think. Unfortunately I realized way to late inti the ride that this is not a group of friends but a shared taxi. It did not say taxi anywhere. Driver acted like people I hitched with, so I assumed no need to make the money issue clear. You should…. Anyway in the end it was 1.500 Dram so 3,40€ roughly.

rating: 4/5, wait: 10 min, ride: 101 km ↖

―FlexiG, July 2025

40.28245, 44.60414

Got dropped off here unfortunately but had my Yerevan sign. Would have probably worked without. Walk a bit till you find a good spot for yourself, there is a lot of space for cars to stop anywhere. Took me 5 minutes

rating: 5/5, wait: 5 min, ride: 15 km ↙

―FlexiG, Thu 10 Jul 2025, 18:32

40.8431, 44.27657

I got picked up instantly before I could even put my thumb up so ymmv however pretty much every car on this road is going to Gyumri

rating: 5/5, wait: 1 min, ride: 47 km ←

―triplevdirk, May 2025

40.82733, 44.46146

Lots of traffic and easy for cars to see you but difficult to get cars going where you want to (in my case Gyumri)

rating: 3/5, wait: 40 min, ride: 20 km ←

―triplevdirk, May 2025

40.74045, 44.84932

Lots of traffic easy to get to Vanadzor

rating: 5/5, wait: 10 min, ride: 36 km ←

―triplevdirk, May 2025

40.76715, 45.01837

nice old man have stop us, two smelly hikermans, and took us with his old rusty Gazelle van to Dilijan.

rating: 5/5, wait: 10 min 👍, ride: 17 km ←

―johnni, Fri 12 Jul 2024, 14:56

39.15108, 46.18404

Kadjaran is a small town that everyone crosses on the way from Kapan to Meghri, Iran and opposite. If you are going north, find a car going to Kapan and take the bus number 5 to the eastern end of the city, where the road intersection goes left to Yerevan. I had a young guy offering me coffee, taking me to the next village, waiting with me for the Kadjaran-Kapan bus and then finding a friend of his to drive me there.

rating: 5/5, wait: 10 min 👍, ride: 20 km ↗

―GiovanniTonucci, September 2024

38.93907, 46.21989

Best spot from Meghri to north. If a local wants to take you here (Lehvaz village intersection) from Meghri, then accept! There are people leaving the village, there's space for trucks to stop. A covered bus stop against sun or rain. Also dusty blackberries in september. A spanish cyclist going south stopped for conversation and got a local white Lada stopping for me after 2 hours i was waiting :D Elders took me have lunch at their roulotte by a very twisty part of the road, then i hitchhiked with one of them to Kadjaran

rating: 5/5, wait: 120 min 👍, ride: 30 km ↑

―GiovanniTonucci, September 2024

40.07869, 44.44766

Very good spot if you are arriving from south (Ararat province) and you wanna skip the traffic of Yerevan on your way west - Echmiadzin, Armavir, Gyumri. You'll also skip the airport area and the need of taking buses to reach western suburbs. Mind that these western cities are industrialized, so people drive for money more than elsewhere.
I got offers to Masis until a guy took me to Hayanist.

rating: 5/5, wait: 20 min 👍, ride: 10 km ↖

―GiovanniTonucci, September 2024

38.88836, 46.26514

As of today, they say that hitchhikers can only go to Meghri and Agarak. They can't go to Tsav and come back. If you like to speak with locals or fellow travelers then you can find a ride from Agarak to Tsav or Nrnadzor. I did not and i trust situation will change.

rating: 3/5, ride: 31 km ↗

―Anonymous, September 2024

38.86172, 46.21456

Arriving here from central Armenia is easy and fun - check the spot in Areni. Leaving to anywhere up north can take long time! I did it 2 years ago from Iran and got stuck in Lehvaz village of Meghri, where a farmer gave me a couch and a truck took me to Kapan in the morning. I did it again during a long exploration of the country this week and got a ride to Meghri after 2 hours, waited 2 hours in the evening, camped and waited 6 hours in the morning. I also walked up to Lehvaz, it is a better spot than Meghri.
It was already my 60th day in Armenia, been to all directions except of remote villages in Syunik and northwest. So i can say Agarak is hard to leave, unless you speak Farsi or Russian so you can approach drivers easily.
Kapan is easy to leave. I waited 5 minutes. Good luck

rating: 4/5, wait: 120 min 👍, ride: 6 km ↗

―GiovanniTonucci, September 2024

40.10791, 44.47026

Come here by metro to Shengavit or Garegin and jump on the bus 6, 51, 55 or 55w - check more direct options from the city center to Karach market on app A2B Yerevan transport. 100amd each ride.
I accepted the second offer to Artashat as it was getting dark and the guy dropped me at his market on the main road. Another guy took me to one more market+ cheap bbq restaurant (they call them bistro) where the owner spared a grilled potato lavaş with me. Stand at the crossroad where the cars accelerate into the M2 to Meghri.

rating: 5/5, wait: 20 min 👍, ride: 22 km ↓

―GiovanniTonucci, September 2024

39.73643, 45.24407

Super spot. 4 colourful wanderers, we camped in Areni floodgate and came here at 11am brought by a friend's car to find a direct ride to Iran. After 5 minutes playing music and singing by smiley food vendors, two armenian trucks stopped for us and drove all the way to Agarak, which border i really missed since 2 years ago.
We had signs to Meghri but they were really useless, as everyone would understand we're going as much south as possible. I'm in Samuel Hostel in Agarak, Iran will see me again in winter, going back to Georgia tomorrow!

rating: 5/5, wait: 5 min 🪧, ride: 160 km ↘

―GiovanniTonucci, September 2024

40.56773, 44.99913

I camped in the small forest by walking uphill from the train station, crossed the road from station underpass and got a ride by an empty bus

The Sevanavank monastery in the peninsula is very touristic and gave me good money by busking down at the restaurants

rating: 5/5, wait: 10 min 👍, ride: 7 km ↖

―GiovanniTonucci, September 2024

40.65108, 45.29567

Wonderful mountain road from Ttujur to Berd. A truck carrying pillars took me to his workplace then 2 men to Berd, offering to show me the fortress and ending up gifting a Holy Bible.

rating: 5/5, wait: 30 min 🪧, ride: 33 km ↑

―GiovanniTonucci, September 2024

40.58676, 45.35132

Got an unexpected ride to Yerevan after 5 minutes so I didn't go explore the south of Sevan lake by Vardenis and Martuni

rating: 5/5, wait: 5 min 👍, ride: 106 km ↙

―GiovanniTonucci, September 2024

40.89721, 45.39741

Overwhelming city, lots of attentions, people willing to interact and help. 2 different aged groups of men wanted to give me money within one hour, a man in the cultural center next to "No problem hotel" drove me to Soran park when i asked for camping spot. English speaking girl at the café over there gave me cheese at 10pm. Chinari monastery was not allowed me to climb from the village bus stop.
Hitchhiking in from Chambarak was fun and easy (last man gifted a Holy Bible), hitchhiking out was complicated. Road west to Ijevan was closed, so you need to pass Tavush and Aygehovit! No one picked me up and i walked uphill across all Tavush village. There a group of picnicking men gave me bread and natural vegetables after sunset, asked me if i wanted free hotel. Finally, once i woke up at the upper bus stop and waited for minibus to Ijevan 9:30am 1000amd, eng-speak lady gave me fruits.

rating: 3/5, wait: 120 min 👍, ride: 26 km ←

―GiovanniTonucci, September 2024

Recent reviews mentioning Armenia

41.64815, 44.90053

Take the bus there, you can check it on G Maps. Its best to go to Armenia because it has no inner city traffic. Literally took me 1 minute. Lots of space for the driver and they are still slow due to a traffic light a few meters before the stop. Sign to Yerevan got me to Marneuli.

rating: 5/5, wait: 1 min, ride: 25 km ↙

―FlexiG, Thu 10 Jul 2025, 10:50

5.98491, -75.60828

Es una zona donde los camioneros y autos paran para comer e ir al baño, ideal para hacer stop frente a los parqueaderos de los restaurantes, asi tienen donde parar.
Cuando he ido la ruta no era muy movimentada, pero era la única que me llevaba a donde quería llegar, Armenia.

rating: 5/5, wait: 5 min 👍, ride: 129 km ↓

―D4ni3l4, October 2024

6.14773, -75.63204

Ahi empecé mi camino hasta Armenia, con dos amigas demoramos aproximadamente 12 horas en llegar hasta nuestro destino final.

rating: 4/5, wait: 30 min 👍, ride: 23 km ↓

―D4ni3l4, October 2024

38.86172, 46.21456

41.16321, 43.76908

Great spot for heading towards Armenia or any of the villages up the road. Not much traffic, but very broad road and easy for cars to stop, which many will do eagerly (as well as passersby being very curious about your plans).

rating: 5/5, wait: 15 min

―J, August 2024

41.23783, 43.21645

Wonderful view, calm border with almost only trucks. Came from Kars, got a truck ride in Çildir, walked to the gas station where the tir parking guys do speak Turkish + Georgian so they can help you. Only 3 cars in a hour so better to ask truck drivers! Got a ride by a tractor carrying hay they took me to collect more hay uphill and showed me the first village, while a fourth car of dutch tourists filmed us from behind.

REMINDER * if you go to Tbilisi, trucks drive the Akhaltsikhe-Borjomi-Kashuri way as the Tsalka route is not allowed to them. So you can first go to Ninontsminda and then hitch to Tbilisi or Armenia.

Btw the view is priceless and makes you wanna stay for hours

rating: 5/5, wait: 60 min 💬, ride: 179 km ↗

―GiovanniTonucci, July 2024

41.65982, 44.88768

Picked up immediately direction Armenia, cars going slowly at roundpoint, nice shoulder to pull over and stop.
Use yandexmaps to see which bus will leave you here from Tbilisi.

rating: 5/5, wait: 1 min 👍, ride: 30 km ↓

―JulianayJulianColombianCouple, June 2024

41.6598, 44.88819

Picked up immediately direction Armenia, cars going slowly at roundpoint, nice shoulder to pull over and stop.
Use yandexmaps to see which bus will leave you here from Tbilisi.

rating: 5/5, wait: 1 min 👍, ride: 29 km ↙

―JulianayJulianColombianCouple, June 2024

41.64472, 44.89337

Most traffic is going to Marneuli, but it's fine to accept a ride until there and from there hitch on to Armenia.

―HolyDrinker, July 2016

41.26278, 43.59717

Direction to Armenia

―Anonymous, August 2015

39.87807, 44.57881

The Khor Virap (Armenian: , meaning "deep pit" or "deep well") is an Armenian Apostolic Church monastery located in the Ararat plain in Armenia, near the border with Turkey, about 8 kilometres (5.0 mi) south of Artashat, Ararat Province. The monastery was host to a theological seminary and was the residence of Armenian Catholicos.
Khor Virap's notability as a monastery and pilgrimage site is attributed to the fact that Grigor Lusavorich, who later became Saint Gregory the Illuminator, was initially imprisoned here for 14 years by King Tiridates III of Armenia. Saint Gregory subsequently became the king's religious mentor, and they led the proselytizing activity in the country. In the year 301, Armenia was the first country in the world to be declared a Christian nation. A chapel was initially built in 642 AD at the site of Kirat Virap by Nerses III the Builder as a mark of veneration to Saint Gregory. Over the centuries, it was repeatedly rebuilt. In 1662, the larger chapel known as the "St. Astvatsatsin" (Holy Mother of God) was built around the ruins of the old chapel, the monastery, the refectory and the cells of the monks. Now, regular Church services are held in this church. It is probably the most visited pilgrimage site in Armenia.

―Anonymous, March 2015

41.64472, 44.89337

Yes, not a problem to catch rides direction Armenia from here.

―Tomtom, July 2014

41.22838, 44.83324

Leaving the customs towards Armenia.

―Anonymous, February 2014

41.64472, 44.89337

take bus 44, after the bus makes enters the settlement, we cross the highway to hike from there to Armenia. There are some vans along the road selling fruits. Vehicles stop by and slow down some traffic

―Anonymous, December 2013

39.58373, 46.50267

The border crossing between Armenia and Karabakh. Cars have to stop for passport control so they drive slowly and will take you if they have space

―Anonymous, September 2013

39.79706, 46.76752

The main road from Stepanakert to Armenia starts here. A policecar might stand here to check the speed of the cars passing, but this won't stop them from stopping

―Anonymous, July 2013

38.03055, 46.45085

If you want to go toward Azarbayjan Republic or Ahar town or Aras river area or Iran northwest borders you can seperate your way from here.
this point is main way toward Ahar town and also Arasbaran touristic area.
this way is not main way toward Armenia border but you can go to Armenia from here.
this way is main way toward Azarbayjan republic border.

―Anonymous, July 2013

40.82878, 44.2605

Needless to say, but from this spot it is very easy to get a ride - just as in any other place in Armenia :)

―Anonymous, July 2013

41.23819, 44.80206

When going to Armenia, it might be a good idea to find a ride before Sadakhlo, as most people will feel uneasy if a foreign-looking, strange person with a backpack wants to cross a border with them. Still, with some patience, you will always find a ride :)

―Anonymous, July 2013

41.6598, 44.88819

Good spot for going to Marneuli or Armenia

―Anonymous, July 2013