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my dear friends
i am here with my friend gagik hey guys
who is going to be our tour guide for
the day taking us
to some of the most popular sort of
tourist attractions here
in armenia the temple of garni
and also geghard monastery yes
absolutely right so what makes these
places kind of
a must for anybody visiting armenia
garnier is a pagan temple
from ancient times it's the only pagan
temple preserved on the territory of the
former soviet union
then we're going to visit devart which
is a
an impressive monastery complex of the
armenian apostolic church
and it was built in a rock yeah like
literally carved
into the rocks wow i'm excited
so let's get going guys
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all right guys we have arrived to the
temple garni
it is absolutely amazing but i'm
absolutely shocked
how many tourists there are
here especially during open times i
didn't expect that there would be so
many people here
where is the majority of tourists like
from in armenia usually like
from what country do you guys get russia
mainly russia
or other countries as well
yeah back to this gorgeous temple that
we are
standing in front of this was built by
king tirad yes the first
in 1st century a.d which is absolutely
crazy
it was like just like destroyed a bit by
an earthquake but they have rebuilt it
ever since
right yes there was an earthquake
in 17th century very stronger
which nearly destroyed the building but
they
recovered it in 19th century
i was reading that this specific you
know pagan temple did survive
because it was actually considered to be
a tube
yes there are several versions of uh but
yeah one one of the versions is that it
survived
the destruction of pagan structures
just because of that that it was a term
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all right guys we are now on our way to
gegard monastery we are in this
beautiful scenery i don't know if you
can see out the window
but it's like this mountainous terrain
when there's cows literally
there's border patrol there's
immigration
here in the region but i was going to
say that this region actually reminds me
a little bit
i was telling um that it reminds me of
northern greece
um like thessaloniki if you guys watched
my videos from there
um driving around those nature regions
really looks
similar but it's also very hot what do
you think the temperature is today
it's um i guess something around 32 now
yeah and it's still 12.49
yeah and it's like this is in the
mountains so of course it's going to be
a little bit
cooler here if we were down in here then
it would be like
until four o'clock maybe oh my god
but yeah i'm super excited to see this
monastery
completely carved out of one piece of
rock
and we are almost there
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all right guys we have somehow lost the
crowds
the whole other portion of the monastery
was like full of people
but somehow we got this place all to
ourselves
and i think this portion as well as well
as the lower part
is carved completely into the mountain
like it's
all i think so too yeah it's officially
a unesco world heritage site so
definitely definitely a unique
experience
to come in here and see what people made
thousands of years ago
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so just off of gegard monastery we have
come
to a really good armenian restaurant
that gagi
found and we are going to have
some delicious traditional food
restaurants
foreign
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all right friends we are heading back to
yerevan
it has been a fabulous day gagi thank
you so much
for this spectacular day we had so much
fun
and yeah once again i would highly
recommend um you know
seeing these uh amazing places as a
simple day trip from yerevan
you can stay in garni i guess there are
some
hotels there yeah so it's like if you
wanted to spend a longer time in the
area you could do that but it is
quite simple to just go from your van so
i hope you guys enjoyed the video
let me know in the comments what you
thought and uh the next time you see me
i'm actually going to be
in a new armenian city so stay tuned for
that guys
and i will see you next time keep being
here i'm kind of beautiful
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bye
you