Goris, ArmeniaAI generated

Goris

Armenia · Syunik · 1385 m

Short description of Goris

Goris (Գորիս) sits in a bowl in southern Armenia where wind and water have cut the soft tuff into ranks of standing pyramids, many of them hollowed into rooms and byres that the town used before it moved down to the valley floor. The nineteenth century grid of stone houses below is unusual in the country for having been planned. Ten kilometres east the abandoned cave village of Old Khndzoresk fills both walls of a ravine, joined since 2012 by a swinging footbridge a hundred and sixty metres long and sixty three metres above the floor.

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Recommended length of stay

Minimum1 day
Optimal2 days
Maximum3 days

Travel seasons at a glance

Best time to visit: May – October

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All highlights and sightsBeta

  1. Old Khndzoresk cave village(Day trip)
  2. Khndzoresk swinging bridge over the ravine(Day trip)
  3. Old Goris tuff pyramids and their cave rooms
  4. Planned grid of nineteenth century stone houses
  5. Tatev monastery and the Wings of Tatev cable car(Day trip)
  6. Zangezur mountain wall above the town
  7. Goris regional museum
  8. Hin Khot abandoned village in the gorge(Day trip)
  9. Vorotan gorge road south
  10. Syunik mulberry vodka and the village stalls

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