Vardavar 2024- Famous Armenian Water Festival #Yerevan #Armenia

Today I want to take you to the streets of Yerevan to experience the joy of Vardavar, the water festival in Armenia.  Vardavar is a festival in Armenia, where people drench each other with water.  Every year for one day Armenians celebrate Vardavar in the summer. The holiday involves drenching and getting drenched in public. It includes everyone you know and even those you don’t know.  Streets, parks & public spaces turn into water-filled arenas, with participants armed with water guns & buckets. Vardavar water festival is celebrated on the 14th Sunday after Easter, as a rule, it falls on July, on the hottest days of summer. Vardavar was a pagan festival in ancient times, celebrating Astghik, the Armenian goddess of water, fertility, and love. Even when Armenia adopted Christianity as its state religion, this festival remained intact. The Armenian Apostolic Church identified Vardavar with the Transfiguration of Jesus and incorporated it into one of its five feast days. Vardavar is now