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Place in Aragatsotn, Armenia

Kayk

Kayk is a village in the Aparan Municipality of the Aragatsotn Province of Armenia located 29 km away from Ashtarak 1850 meters above the sea level.

The place

Kayk is a village in the Aparan Municipality of the Aragatsotn Province of Armenia located 29 km away from Ashtarak 1850 meters above the sea level. The population migrated to Kayk during 1828-1929 from villages of Alashkert, Mush, Khoy, and Salmast regions. It was renamed Kayk in 2006.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Kayk

One place 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.

  1. 01
    Aparan Basilica

    The Kasagh Basilica or the Aparan Basilica, formally known as the Holy Cross Church, is an early medieval Armenian church in the town of Aparan in the Aragatsotn Province of Armenia. It is dated by scholars to the fourth or fifth century.

    2 km · cultural heritage monument of Armenia · Wikipedia

Ranked by the number of language editions of Wikipedia with an article on each, from Wikidata; the sentences are the openings of those articles, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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Getting to Kayk

Airports
Shirak (LWN), 47 km · Zvartnots (EVN), 48 km · Tbilisi (TBS), 130 km
  • Gyumri → Kayk
    50 km · quickest by road, 1h 43m · $5–7
  • Yerevan → Kayk
    46 km · quickest by road, 1h 28m · $4.5–6
  • Tbilisi → Kayk
    129 km · quickest by road, 4h 28m · ₾24–32
  • From anywhere
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Kayk

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 Kayk. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

The nearest places where the work is done
  1. 01
    GyumriAM

    12 ways of moving, 47 sources

    50 km
  2. 02
    Yeghegnadzor and the Vayots Dzor valleyAM

    9 ways of moving, 32 sources

    122 km
  3. 03
    Vardzia and the Javakheti plateauGE

    12 ways of moving, 57 sources

    128 km
  4. 04
    GoriGE

    10 ways of moving, 16 sources

    158 km
  5. 05
    KutaisiGE

    9 ways of moving, 40 sources

    232 km

If you know how people move in Kayk – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.

Around it

Next door to Kayk

Kayk is 46 km from Yerevan, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

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  • Lusagyughvillage in Aragatsotn Province of Armenia3.1 km
  • Vardenisvillage in Aragatsotn Province of Armenia2.6 km
  • Saralanjvillage in Aragatsotn Province of Armenia2.8 km