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Makenis

Makenis is a village in the Vardenis Municipality of the Gegharkunik Province of Armenia.

Makenis
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The place

Makenis is a village in the Vardenis Municipality of the Gegharkunik Province of Armenia.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Makenis

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
    Makenyats Vank

    Makenyats Vank is a 9th–13th century Armenian monastery located 5 kilometres south of Lake Sevan in the village of Makenis in the Gegharkunik Province of Armenia. The monastery was founded in 851 with the construction of the central S. Astvatsatsin Church by Prince Grigor Supan II, the son of Princess Mariam, who was also the founder of Kotavank in Nerkin Getashen, Armenia.

    200 m · cultural heritage monument of Armenia · Wikipedia

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Getting to Makenis

Airports
Ganja (GNJ), 91 km · Zvartnots (EVN), 103 km · Nakhchivan (NAJ), 105 km
  • Ganja → Makenis
    6721 km · quickest by air, 19h 10m · $1,280–1,930
  • Nakhchivan → Makenis
    Train, bus, flight, ferry and road, side by side
  • Baku → Makenis
    7004 km · quickest by air, 21h 53m · $1,340–2,020
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Makenis

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 Makenis. 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
    Yeghegnadzor and the Vayots Dzor valleyAM

    9 ways of moving, 32 sources

    47 km
  2. 02
    GyumriAM

    12 ways of moving, 47 sources

    167 km
  3. 03
    Sheki (Şəki)AZ

    10 ways of moving, 46 sources

    179 km
  4. 04
    Vardzia and the Javakheti plateauGE

    12 ways of moving, 57 sources

    241 km
  5. 05
    GoriGE

    10 ways of moving, 16 sources

    242 km

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

Around it

Next door to Makenis

  • Lchavanvillage in Gegharkunik Province of Armenia3.1 km