Armenia travel health
Required is not recommended: the first is what the border asks about, the second is what a clinic would suggest. Both, for Armenia, then the number to dial and what care costs a visitor. Applies to every guide in Armenia: Yerevan, Dilijan, Tatev.
Required to enter
Nothing. No vaccination certificate is asked for at the border.
Recommended
- Hepatitis A
- Tetanus up to date
- Rabies for hiking, where the village dogs are loose
Emergency number
112 from any phone; 103 for an ambulance, 102 for police
Care for visitors
Good but costly
Good in Yerevan, where the private clinics are used to foreigners and cheap; adequate in the towns; the mountain monasteries and the far south rely on a drive back to the capital. Insurance for the repatriation rather than the treatment.
Yerevan’s tap water is drinkable and the street fountains are the point. The sun at 1,000 m is stronger than it feels. Village dogs on the trails. The driving is the real hazard to health here.
The general rules — clinic timing, water, mosquitoes, insurance — are in travel health tips.
The guides in Armenia
YerevanArmeniaA pink-stone city older than Rome under a mountain that belongs to Turkey, a cascade to climb, the best brandy in the world, and cafés that never close
DilijanArmeniaThe Armenian Switzerland: a spa town in a forest, wooden balconies, monasteries hidden in the woods, and a lake an hour away
TatevArmeniaA monastery on a cliff above a gorge, reached by the longest cable car in the world, in the far south where the roads are the point