Armenia travel tips

3 guides in Armenia — when to go, how to get around, which ATMs not to use, and what a fair price looks like.

Yerevan at dusk with Mount Ararat pink above the city

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

Forested hills around Dilijan under a stormy sky

DilijanArmeniaThe Armenian Switzerland: a spa town in a forest, wooden balconies, monasteries hidden in the woods, and a lake an hour away

Tatev monastery on its cliff above the Vorotan gorge

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