Mountains and monasteries in Armenia

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Mountains and monasteries in Armenia

With its glorious mountains, idyllic villages and spectacular ancient monasteries, Armenia is a place of rare beauty. But this landlocked country in the Caucasus remains something of an "enigma", said Tim Moore in the Financial Times, receiving far fewer visitors than, for instance, neighbouring Georgia.It is "geographically Asian" but "geopolitically European", and tends to surprise newcomers with a sense of "pervasive otherness" – for example …