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Armenia
Fly to Yerevan via Vienna or Doha, then four hours south through the Syunik mountains.
Village guesthouses below the monastery — apricots, lavash from the tonir, oghi to finish.
A ninth-century monastery on a gorge lip, reached by the world's longest reversible cable car, in a landscape of khachkars, hermit caves, and roads winding toward Iran.
Skip the cable car once: hike up from the Devil's Bridge through the gorge, past the hermitage, and arrive the way pilgrims did.
May to October
Shnorhakalutyun — thank you; Armenians will forgive your pronunciation warmly.
The Crossing Place by Philip Marsden — a journey among the Armenians.
The Areni cave complex en route — the world's oldest winery, 6,100 years old, in wine country still pouring.
The far south borders sensitive frontier zones — keep to the main Syunik corridor and check the current situation.