UNDER
CONSTRUCTION
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The road ends at
Arevis.
At
about 7 km from the Hatsavan fork, you see on a bluff left across the
river the low red remains of Tanahati
Vank or (as it is known to the locals) Karmir Vank. It may be possible to ford the river by car below
the monastery, while one km upstream of it is a deeper ford or, 80 m further
upstream,
a precarious footbridge made of
an old truck
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A
road SE from
Sisian leads past
Uyts,
with
cyclopean castle nearby.
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chassis, with a pleasant
foot track leading up (20 minutes) to the monastery. Preserved are remains of a single-aisle basilica, perhaps of the
5th
c., with a small columned hall adjoining it S. W of the church is a little cemetery, which includes the
well-preserved cist grave of a notable at its highest point.
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