Ararat climbing permit
Ararat Climbing Permit
For trekking and skiing on Mount Ararat, special climbing permission from the Turkish government is required.
Anyone can apply for this permit, but every climber must be accompanied by a guide from a licensed agency.
The other, much faster, and easiest way to receive permission to climb Ararat is to process it through a tourism agency, which will organize your trekking or ski tour on Mount Ararat. We also help to obtain Ararat climbing permits for all our clients.
To get an Ararat climbing permit for you, we will need the following information:
- 1Your name and surname
- 2Date and place of your birth
- 3Your nationality
- 4Scanned copy of your passport (page with photo and number of the passport)
- 5Planned date of your Ararat trekking or Ararat ski tour (the permit is valid only for the period of time which is indicated in the document)
From 2015, permission to climb Ararat is issued by the Doğubayazıt District Governorship (Kaymakamlık), which significantly speeds up the procedure because documents no longer need to be sent to Ankara. Currently, the procedure takes 10–15 days, so you should send us the required documents at least 15 days before your arrival.
The cost of an Ararat climbing permit is 50 EUR per person.