From our base in Dilijan, we're within a day-trip reach of the UNESCO heritage monasteries dating from the 7th to 9th centuries, located in the canyon of the Debed river, surrounded by sheer rock faces and heavily wooded hillsides.
We chose four : Odzun
Sanahin
Haghpat
and Akhtala
all very different although each was built in a
spectacular position, with magnificent stone carvings, headstones
(apparently "khatchkars"), conical roofs, frescoes (in the case of
Akhtala).
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