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UNDER
CONSTRUCTION
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Continuing
straight through the Vardahovit,
a deteriorating dirt road leads to the large, totally ruined hamlet of Getikvank,
which has, left of the road, a few khachkars and worked blocks from a
disappeared monastery. According to
the mayor, the inhabitants
of Gyadikvank were removed, with compensation, before the
Karabakh crisis, with the aim of
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Returning to Hermon, the other (S) fork leads in 3.2 km up to Goghtanik
(formerly Ghabakhlu), with artificial
caves, a 13th c. bridge
remains, and 13th c. church
ruins. Climbing
out of the Yeghegis river valley, the road becomes a mud
track, impassible inwinter
(summit of pass 8.6 km from Hermon). On
the far side of the pass (15.7 km),
on the Herher river,
is
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building a
reservoir. Somewhere
a few km NE is supposedly a monastery of the 10th
c, Kotur Vank/Ghoturvan, with a church of 1271. Beyond
Gyadikvank, the jeep track leads on through the mountains to Vardenis.
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Karmrashen. |
