Vardakar
Vardakar is a village in the Artik Municipality of the Shirak Province of Armenia.
Vardakar is a village in the Artik Municipality of the Shirak Province of Armenia.
Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Worth seeing in and around Vardakar
One place within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.
- 01Horom Citadel
Horom Citadel is an ancient Bronze Age through Urartian fortification atop two large hills south of the main road and opposite of the dam and Kamut Reservoir. It is about 1 kilometre east of the village of Horrom in the Shirak Province of northwestern Armenia.
1.7 km · Armenia fortress · Wikipedia
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Getting to Vardakar
- Airports
- Shirak (LWN), 10 km · Zvartnots (EVN), 71 km · Tbilisi (TBS), 141 km
- Yerevan → Vardakar74 km · quickest by road, 2h 33m · $8–11
- Tbilisi → Vardakar138 km · quickest by road, 4h 12m · ₾22–30
- Ganja → Vardakar206 km · quickest by road, 11h 27m · $46–65
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Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.
No local-transport research exists yet for Vardakar
Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Vardakar. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Get inShared taxis depart from the same location and are usually faster and more comfortable.
- Get inTbilisi – Marshrutkas leave daily at 10:30 from the Ortachala bus terminal in Tbilisi.
- Get inThe marshrutka drives through the centre of Gyumri, so you can get off either in the centre of town or at the Gyumri bus terminal.
- Get inThe city used to be called Leninakan and this may be the name displayed in the marshrutka windscreen.
- Get aroundIf you care to try to figure out the numbers of the local van routes (marshrutka), you can have quite an adventure.
From Wikivoyage: Gyumri, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-09.
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If you know how people move in Vardakar – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.
Next door to Vardakar
- Meghrashena village in Shirak province, Armenia2.9 km
- Horomvillage in Shirak Province of Armenia3.2 km
- Panikvillage in Shirak Province of Armenia2 km
- Hovtashenvillage in Shirak Province of Armenia1.4 km