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Shaki

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Shaki

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.

  1. 01
    Zorats Karer

    Carahunge, also known as Zorats Karer, Dik-Dik Karer, Tsits Karer and Karenish, is a prehistoric archaeological site near the town of Sisian in the Syunik Province of Armenia. It is also often referred to among international tourists as the "Armenian Stonehenge".

    3 km · prehistoric archaeological site · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Shaki Waterfall

    Shaki Waterfall is a waterfall in Armenia, with a height of 18 m. It is located in Syunik Province.

    1.5 km · waterfall in 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 Shaki

Airports
Nakhchivan (NAJ), 62 km · Ganja (GNJ), 133 km · Zvartnots (EVN), 151 km
  • Yerevan → Shaki
    144 km · quickest by road, 3h 52m · $16–22
  • Gyumri → Shaki
    228 km · quickest by road, 6h · $25–35
  • Nakhchivan → Shaki
    Train, bus, flight, ferry and road, side by side
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Shaki

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

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Get inYerevan – Several marshrutkas a day.

From Wikivoyage: Sisian, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-09.

The nearest places where the work is done
  1. 01
    Yeghegnadzor and the Vayots Dzor valleyAM

    9 ways of moving, 32 sources

    61 km
  2. 02
    Sheki (Şəki)AZ

    10 ways of moving, 46 sources

    208 km
  3. 03
    GyumriAM

    12 ways of moving, 47 sources

    228 km
  4. 04
    Vardzia and the Javakheti plateauGE

    12 ways of moving, 57 sources

    306 km
  5. 05
    GoriGE

    10 ways of moving, 16 sources

    313 km

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

Around it

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