Services

Officials of Navizar Hotel Alamout are native and for this reason the main factor in providing services is knowing the region completely.

Navizar Hotel Alamout provides services to domestic and foreign tourists by having expert tour guides, who have full information and know the region and its people and cultures completely. A summary of Navizar Hotel activities is as follows:

The services provided in Navizar Hotel Alamout:

NavizarAlamout Tourist Complex (Navizar Hotel Alamout), as the only hotel in Alamout region and the only official authority and information base for routing, mountain climbing and hiking in Alamout region is ready to provide services as below:

1-      1- Holding various tours for mountain climbing, hiking, rock climbing, ecotourism, river hiking, ecology, camping, glacier hiking and summit hiking

2-Holding various tours for mountain climbing, hiking, rock climbing, ecotourism, river hiking, ecology (animal habitats), camping, glacier hiking and summit hiking; including all the routes described above or optional routes; with local guides, international guides (English, Persian), supply of provisions, providing maps, climbing insurance.

2-      Transportation of tourists (inter-village roads and narrow paths)

Providing all transportation services in all the above mentioned routes or optional routes along Alamout valley; including: providing safe vehicles from Qazvin to Navizar Hotel Alamout as the main base for tourism and the origin of climbing routes or other villages; and providing horses and mules to carry the loads of tourists.

3-     3-Providing tour leaders and native or international guides

Navizar Hotel Alamout, as Alamout Tourism Base, is ready to provide tour leaders and native or international tour guides. Using many years of experience in mountains of the region, tour leaders and tour guides of Navizar Hotel Alamout are ready to provide the beast services.

4-   4- Accommodations for tourists (hotel, farmhouses), supplies, holding related conferences in Navizar Hotel spaces.

Navizar Hotel Alamout has 11 equipped suites (3-bed and 4-bed suites) with a separate restaurant ready to receive guests and tourists. In addition, this hotel has 5 farmhouses in the village. Farmhouses are suitable for those tourists whowish to try living in a village.

5-Camping

Setting up mount climbing camps and camping in equipped camping areas (including 4 camping areas in the middle of mountains) by Navizar Hotel Alamout in Avatar region and Darband of Garmarud with full equipment, guides and supplies.

Cultural affairs:

In order to introduce Alamout region to the world, Navizar Hotel Alamout is determined to introduce the culture of this region to the world. A summary of cultural activities is as follows:

NavizarAlamout Tourist Complex with the aim of development of cultural purposes in Alamout region has established the Center of Anthropological Studies in Navizar Hotel. By providing information about ecology, anthropology and sociology, this center is trying to introduce culture, art and history of Alamout region. The following are some of the activities of Navizar Hotel:

1-     -Conducting studies on ancient monuments existing in the region

2-     -Anthropological activities and holding folklore rituals and celebration to present these customs

3-     -Studying on history and geography of the region and the climate

4-     -Knowing rural lifestyle and seeing activities of people in the village such as agriculture and stock raising

5-     -Identifying medicinal plants existing in the region

Alamut Trek

Mountain Climbing and Treking schedule of Navizar Hotel in Alamut region

25 routes identified for Climbing, Treking and their characteristics (time, distance and conditions of the path) are as following that operates by Navizar Hotel Alamut:

Route 1. Ghaleh Navizar (Navizar Castle):

Type of the route: rocky, hard climbing, requires physical readiness, roundtrip <>

Beginning: Navizar Hotel Alamout

Goal: to visit Navizar Castle

Time: 1 full day

Items needed: guide, provisions, water, rock climbing equipment

Maximum altitude: 3,000 meters

Route 2. Zeresk, Gacheelat:

Type of the route: rocky, semi-hard climbing, roundtrip <>

Beginning: Navizar Hotel Alamout

Destination:Zeresk, Gacheelat gypsum mountains

Time: 1 full day

Items needed: guide may be needed for some people, provisions, water

Maximum altitude: 3,300 meters

Route 3. Castle to castle (Navizar Castle to Gazorkhan Castle or Hassan Sabbah Castle:

Type of the route: rocky, hard/semi-hard climbing, roundtrip <>

Beginning: Navizar Hotel Alamout, Garmarud

Destination: Gazorkhan Castle (Hassan Sabbah Castle)

Time: 2 days (1 day for professionals)

Items needed: guide, provisions, water

Maximum altitude: 3,400 meters

Villages in the route: Gazorkhan, Atan, Vanash, Zeresk and Garmarud

Route 4. Garmarud, Zeresk, Zangelan, The caravanserai (Piche Bon Caravanserai):

Type of the route:hard climbing, circular trip ○

Beginning: Navizar Hotel Alamout, Garmarud

Destination: Piche Bon Caravanserai

Time: 1 day

Items needed: guide, provisions, water

Maximum altitude: 3,500 meters

This route can be travelled from Garmarud to the caravanserai and from the caravanserai to Garmarud by vehicles.

Route 5. Navizar Hotel Alamout to the waterfall:

Type of the route: rocky, hard climbing/soft walking, roundtrip <>

Beginning: Navizar Hotel Alamout, Garmarud

Destination: to visit Kalak waterfall and Chorei Bon (with a height of 120 meters)

Time: half a day

Items needed: guide, provisions, water, returning through asphalt road

Maximum altitude: 2,900 meters

Two routes: an asphalt road (no need to have a guide) and a heavily rocky route (requires to have a guide)

Route 6. Garmarud to Piche Bon:

Type of the route: road trip, roundtrip <>

Beginning: Navizar Hotel Alamout, Garmarud

Destination: Piche Bon

Time: 1 day

Items needed: provisions, water

Maximum altitude: 3,000 meters

Route 7. Navizar Hotel, Piche Bon, Se Hezar hot spring (Piche Bon, Salambar, Maran, Darjan, Shahrestan and Se Hezar hot spring)

Type of the route: road trip, semi-hard climbing, hiking, roundtrip <>

Beginning: Navizar Hotel Alamout, Garmarud

Destination: Se Hezar hot spring

Time: 2 full days

Items needed: guide, provisions, water

Maximum altitude: 3,500 meters

Villages in the route: Garmarud, Piche Bon, Caravanserai, Salambar, Maran, Darjan and Shahrestaan

Route 8. Navizar Hotel, Se Hezar hot spring (Piche Bon, Narges kuh, Se Hezar hot spring)

Type of the route: rocky, semi-hard climbing, hard climbing, roundtrip <> and circular trip ○

Beginning: Navizar Hotel Alamout, Garmarud

Destination: Se Hezar hot spring

Time: 2 full days

Items needed: professional guide, provisions, water

Maximum altitude: 3,500 meters

This trip begins from Navizar Hotel Alamout in Garmarud and it continues along Narges kuh after passing Piche Bon; then after passing a hard route it reaches Se Hezar hot spring. In addition, this rout is accessible from NarmiLat village.

Route 9. Garmarud, Avatar and vice versa (mountain climbing route)

Type of the route: road trip, semi-hard climbing, hard climbing, roundtrip <>

Beginning: Navizar Hotel Alamout, Garmarud

Destination: Avatar village located at the end of Alamout valley

Time: 2 full days

Items needed: guide, provisions, water

Maximum altitude: 3,000 meters

This trip begins from Navizar Hotel Aamout in Garmarud and after passing around Piche Bon village it goes down to Avatar village.

Route 10. Garmarud, Avatar and vice versa (river route)

Type of the route: road trip, semi-hard climbing, hard climbing, river hiking,circular trip ○

Beginning: Navizar Hotel Alamout, Garmarud

Destination: Avatar village located at the end of Alamout valley

Time: 1 full day

Items needed: guide, provisions, water

Maximum altitude: 2,900 meters

This trip begins from Navizar Hotel Aamout in Garmarud and after passing NarmiLat village it continues along the river andreaches Avatar village at the end of Alamout valley.

Route 11. Garmarud, NarmiLat, Dineh rud, Avatar

Type of the route: road trip, semi-hard climbing, hard climbing, circular trip ○

Beginning: Navizar Hotel Alamout, Garmarud

Destination: Avatar village located at the end of Alamout valley

Time: 2 full day

Items needed: guide, provisions, water

Maximum altitude: 2,900 meters

This trip begins from Navizar Hotel Aamout in Garmarud and after passing NarmiLat village and Dineh rud reaches Avatar village at the end of Alamout valley.

Route 12. Garmarud, NarmiLat and Dineh rud

Type of the route: road trip, semi-hard climbing, roundtrip <>

Beginning: Navizar Hotel Alamout, Garmarud

Destination: Dineh rud Village

Time: 1 full day

Items needed: provisions, water

Maximum altitude: 2,900 meters

This trip begins from Navizar Hotel Aamout in Garmarud and after passing NarmiLat village it continues along the road and reaches Dineh rud village after travelling a 45-minutes trip.

Route 13. Garmarud, Piche Bon, Se Hezar hot spring, Kaljaran, Takht-e Soleymn, Kelardasht

Type of the route: road trip, semi-hard climbing, hard professional climbing, roundtrip <>

Beginning: Navizar Hotel Alamout, Garmarud

Destination: Kelardasht through Se Hezar hot spring – Kaljaran and vice versa

Time: 2 full days

Items needed: professional guide, provisions, water

Maximum altitude: 4,100 meters

This trip begins from Navizar Hotel Aamout in Garmarud and after passing Piche Bon village it continues in Se Hezar road; after passing mountains of Kaljaran and TakhteSoleyman mountain (with an elevation of 4650 meters) it reaches Kelardasht.

Route 14. Garmarud, Se Hezar hot spring, Hesarchal, Kelardasht

Type of the route: road trip, semi-hard climbing, hard professional climbing, roundtrip <>

Beginning: Navizar Hotel Alamout, Garmarud

Destination: Kelardasht through Se Hezar hot spring – Hesarchal and vice versa

Time: 4 full days

Items needed: professional guide, provisions, water

Maximum altitude: 3,800 meters

This trip begins from Navizar Hotel Aamout in Garmarud and after passing Piche Bon village it continues in Se Hezar road it reaches Hesarchal. It should be noted that since this route is a professional route, a professional local guide is needed for traveling this route.

Route 15. Garmarud, Avatar, Kalvan kuh,Hesarchal,Kelardasht

Type of the route: walking, semi-hard climbing, hard professional climbing, roundtrip <>

Beginning: Navizar Hotel Alamout, Garmarud

Destination: Kelardasht through Avatar, Kalvan kuh, Hesarchal, Kelardasht and vice versa

Time: 3 full days

Items needed: professional guide, provisions, water

Maximum altitude: 3,800 meters

This trip begins from Navizar Hotel Aamout in Garmarud and after passing Avatar village it continues throughKelvan kuh road and Hesarchal road.It must be noted that since this route is a professional route, a professional local guide is needed for traveling this route..

Route 16. Garmarud, Lazur, ZardeGule, Avanak, Garmarud

Type of the route: walking, semi-hard climbing, circular trip ○

Beginning: Navizar Hotel Alamout, Garmarud

Destination: ZardeGule, through Lazur – Avanak road

Time: 1 full day

Items needed: guide, provisions, water

Maximum altitude: 3,600 meters

This trip begins from Navizar Hotel Aamout in Garmarud and after passing Lazur region it continues toward ZardeGule. In returning, the route continues toward Avanak village and ends in Garmarud. This route is very attractive because of its short time and being semi-hard. This route can be travelled with an ordinary local guide.

Route 17. Garmarud, Avanak, Shah Alborz

Type of the route: walking, semi-hard climbing, hard climbing, roundtrip <>

Beginning: Navizar Hotel Alamout, Garmarud

Destination: Shah Alborz, through Avanak – ZardeGule– Avanak – Shah Alborz road

Time: 1 full day

Items needed: professional guide, provisions, water

Maximum altitude: 4,200 meters

This trip begins from Navizar Hotel Aamout in Garmarud and after passing Avanak village continues toward summit of ZardeGule mount. Along the edge of ZardeGule, Shah Alborz mount is located in an altitude of 4200 meters. Considering high altitude (4200 meters) and spectacular natural views around the route such as: Narges kuh, East Alamout valley to Sialan, NarmiLat neck and Alam kuh mountains and Kalvan kuh, Shah Alborz route has so many attractions and it requires an experienced guide.

Route 18. Garmarud, Avanak, ZardeGule, Darband, Garmarud

Type of the route: walking, semi-hard climbing, hard climbing, circular trip ○

Beginning: Navizar Hotel Alamout, Garmarud

Destination: Darband of Garmarud via ZardeGule– Avanak – Darband of Garmarud route

Time: 1 full day

Items needed: guide, provisions, water

Maximum altitude: 3,600 meters

This trip begins from Navizar Hotel Aamout in Garmarud village and after passing Avanak village continues toward summit of ZardeGule mount. After reaching summit of ZardeGule mount it goes toward Darband of Garmarud and finally ends in Garmarud.

Route 19. Garmarud, Darband and vice versa

Type of the route: walking, semi-hard climbing, roundtrip <>

Beginning: Navizar Hotel Alamout, Garmarud

Destination: Darband of Garmarud

Time: 1 full day

Items needed: guide, provisions, water

Maximum altitude: 3,200 meters

This trip begins from Navizar Hotel Aamout in Garmarud village and continues toward Darband of Garmarud and summit of Darband mount. This route is relatively soft but with many natural ecological attractions.

Route 20. Garmarud, Zivar, Hassanabad, Darband-e Zurun and vice versa

Type of the route: walking, semi-hard climbing, roundtrip <>

Beginning: Navizar Hotel Alamout, Garmarud

Destination: Darband-e Zurun

Time: half a day

Items needed: guide, provisions, water

Maximum altitude: 2,900 meters

This trip begins from Navizar Hotel Aamout in Garmarud and continues toward Hassanabad village and ends in Daarband-e Zurun. This is a soft route with many natural ecological attractions.

Route 21. Garmarud village, Aavanak village

Type of the route: walking, roundtrip <>

Beginning: Navizar Hotel Alamout, Garmarud

Destination: Avanak village

Time: half a day

Items needed:water

Maximum altitude: 2,900 meters

This route has been planned for a soft walking; and it ends in Avanak village via the road.

Route 22. Navizar Hotel, Avanak village, Pile Sare mountain

Type of the route: walking, suitable for all ages, circular trip ○

Beginning: Navizar Hotel Alamout, Garmarud

Destination: Pile Sare mountain

Time: half a day

Items needed: provisions, water

Maximum altitude: 2,900 meters

This route has been planned for a soft walking; and it is suitable for all ages.

Route 23. Navizar Hotel, RuyDeh, AbolhassanMalga

Type of the route: walking, semi-soft climbing suitable for all ages, roundtrip <>

Beginning: Navizar Hotel Alamout, Garmarud

Destination: AbolhassanMalga grassland

Time: half a day (1 day in case of staying in the grassland)

Items needed: water

Maximum altitude: 2,900 meters

The aim of planning of this route is to enjoy the natural attractions of RuyDeh valley and Darband of Garmarud. This route is suitable for all ages and for all tastes.

Definitions:

1-      Roundtrip or one-direction route: going ahead and going back along the same route. <>

2-      Circular trip of two-direction route: a route that begins from one point and ends in the first point via different ways. ○

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