Vaghatin
Vaghatin — a village of the Sisian country
Vaghatin is a village in western Syunik, on the Sisian plateau, by the Vorotan.
What is this place
Vaghatin is a village in western Syunik, on the Sisian plateau, by the Vorotan.
Vaghatin lies on the high plateau of the Sisian country, away from the noise of the roads; fields and hayfields surround it, and the Vorotan flows below.
It is high here: the village lives by livestock, pastures and haymaking, by potatoes and barley in cold fields. The mountains stand all around — this is Syunik, a land of high ranges in the south of Armenia.
Vaghatin is a village of Syunik on the Sisian plateau.
Places nearby
Saint Hripsime Church (Goris)
A church in the handsome town of Goris, dedicated to one of Armenia's most beloved early saints.
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Harants Anapat Monastery
A secluded monastic hermitage tucked into the wild slopes of Syunik, made for solitude and prayer.
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Saint Hripsime Church, Verishen
An Armenian Apostolic church in the Syunik village of Verishen, near Goris.
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Holy Mother of God Church, Karchevan
A protected stone church of the Holy Mother of God in the southern village of Karchevan.
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Stay in Vaghatin
Ready routes through Vaghatin
All the way to Meghri
Five days along the Arax River through all of Syunik to Meghri — the southernmost point of Armenia. Pomegranate gardens, monasteries, hot springs.
- Meghri pomegranate gardens
- Hot springs
- The Iranian border
The Vorotan gorge — a jeep tour
An off-roader, driver-guides, and access to places an ordinary car can’t reach: Satani Kar (the natural bridge), the Vorotan gorge, hot springs.
- Natural bridge
- Thermal baths
- 4×4 only
Southern Armenia
A three-day journey through southern Armenia. A night in Goris, visits to Khndzoresk and the cave churches. One of the country’s most striking routes.
- The cave town of Khndzoresk
- Karahunj — the Armenian Stonehenge
- 2 nights in the mountains
Khndzoresk — the cave town
Old Khndzoresk — a two-hundred-year-old cave town in a gypsum gorge. A suspension bridge over the chasm, a descent to the cave dwellings, the Surb Tadevos church.
- 160 m suspension bridge
- Cave churches
- Old Goris
The Vorotan gorge — a jeep tour
An off-roader, driver-guides, and access to places an ordinary car can’t reach: Satani Kar (the natural bridge), the Vorotan gorge, hot springs.
- Natural bridge
- Thermal baths
- 4×4 only
Tatev + the cableway
A one-day tour from Yerevan to Tatev Monastery, riding the world’s longest cableway. Lunch in Khot and a guided tour of the monastery.
- World’s longest cableway
- 9th-century monastery
- Lunch in a mountain village