UNDER
CONSTRUCTION
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The
main road continues to the little town of Ani
Railroad
Station. |
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A
narrow paved road, just after the Ani
Railroad Station winds to a military checkpoint manned by
Russian border guards, half of them Armenians under contract.
With prior permission from the Foreign Ministry, or a
pleasant smile and good story or (supposedly pending) a policy change |
UNDER
CONSTRUCTION
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on
access to the closed zone, you may be
allowed to drive to an overlook
point W of the settlement of Kharkov,
from which the churches and palaces of the medieval Armenian
capital city of Ani
are laid out on a promontory a few hundred meters and many
centuries away across the Akhurian river gorge in Turkey.
The sight is unforgettable, particularly in late
afternoon.
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