3 guides, each rated 1 to 5 with the reason — and two lists per place, where you are comfortable and where to pay attention. Nowhere is called dangerous; the specific thing is what helps.
Very comfortable and quiet. The forest trails are marked and the bears are shy; the mountain roads to the monasteries are fine in daylight. That is the whole list.
Comfortable: Sharambeyan street · the forest trails
Very comfortable. The cable car closes in high wind — check before driving four hours. The gorge road down to the Devil’s Bridge is a track with drops; the cave village bridge swings. The Azerbaijani border is a few kilometres east of the main road in places; stay on it.
Comfortable: Tatev village · Goris
Very comfortable, and the centre is walked at any hour. Taxi overcharging off the app is the complaint. The borders with Azerbaijan and Turkey are closed and the Azerbaijani one is tense; nowhere a visitor goes is near it. Ararat is in Turkey and the subject is not a joke.
Comfortable: the centre · the Cascade · Abovyan street · Kond
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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