Getargel
Getargel, formerly known as Radiokayanin kits, or SMO, is a village in the Kotayk Province of Armenia.
Getargel, formerly known as Radiokayanin kits, or SMO, is a village in the Kotayk Province of Armenia.
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Worth seeing in and around Getargel
2 places within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.
- 01Cathedral of Avan
The Cathedral of Avan is a ruined late 6th-century church located in the Avan District of Yerevan, the capital of Armenia. It is the oldest surviving church inside Yerevan's city limits, and earliest dated example of tetraconch church.
3.7 km · cultural heritage monument of Armenia · Wikipedia - 02Ptghnavank
Ptghnavank or Ptghni church is located in the village of Ptghni in the Kotayk Province of Armenia.
1.8 km · cultural heritage monument of Armenia · Wikipedia
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Getting to Getargel
- Airports
- Zvartnots (EVN), 20 km · Shirak (LWN), 84 km · Nakhchivan (NAJ), 138 km
- Gyumri → Getargel88 km · quickest by road, 2h 45m · $11–15
- Nakhchivan → GetargelTrain, bus, flight, ferry and road, side by side
- Ganja → Getargel157 km · quickest by road, 8h 48m · $24–34
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Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.
No local-transport research exists yet for Getargel
Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Getargel. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Get inYou may be denied entry and turned around at the border, which, if you've come by marshrutka/minibus, means that you will be stranded until you are able to find a new bus or hitchhike back to Tbilisi.
- Get inThere are marshrutkas from Tbilisi to the border for about 17 lari to Yerevan.
- Get inAlso, several marshrutkas leave daily from Akhalkalaki into Armenia (Gyumri).
- Get inMarshrutkas pass through Ninotsminda, so it is possible to jump on there.
- Get inIn both directions, marshrutka leaves quite early in the morning.
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Getargel is 10 km from Yerevan, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
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