Vardenis
Vardenis is a town in the Vardenis Municipality of Gegharkunik Province, Armenia.
Vardenis is a town in the Vardenis Municipality of Gegharkunik Province, Armenia. It is in the Masrik River valley, on the territory of the Masrik artesian basin at 2,006 metres above sea level, near the southeastern shores of Lake Sevan. It is 170 kilometres by road east of the capital Yerevan, and 75 kilometres southeast of the provincial centre Gavar. The administrative territory of Vardenis comprises 3,006 hectares, of which 736 hectares is occupied by the town itself. Vardenis obtained its status as an urban settlement in 1995. In the 2011 census the population was 12,685, and in the 2022 census it was 12,466.
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What Wikivoyage says to see
There is a nice church in the center of the city. In the hills, there are a couple of chapels and fun khachkars by Ayrk.
- 01Makenyats Monastery
A medium-sized monastery by the river in Makenis village, west of Vardenis.
- 02Vanevan Monastery
A small monastery that has been restored by the river in a village of the same name, west of Vardenis.
From Wikivoyage: Vardenis, CC BY-SA 4.0. Not yet checked by us.
Things to do
Hike, camp, swim. Janapar Trail. Vardenis was the end of the Janapar, a hiking trail mostly in Karabakh. The status of the trail is uncertain since the Azerbaijani takeover of the region from 2020.
From Wikivoyage: Vardenis, CC BY-SA 4.0. Not yet checked by us.
Getting to Vardenis
- Airports
- Ganja (GNJ), 80 km · Zvartnots (EVN), 112 km · Nakhchivan (NAJ), 113 km
- Yerevan → Vardenis104 km · quickest by road, 3h 8m · $13–18
- Gyumri → Vardenis53 km · quickest by road, 1h 50m · $6–8
- Ganja → Vardenis77 km · quickest by road, 5h 57m · $12–17
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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 Vardenis
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 Vardenis. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
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If you know how people move in Vardenis – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.
Next door to Vardenis
- Akunkvillage in Gegharkunik Province of Armenia2.1 km
- Mets Masrikvillage in Gegharkunik Province of Armenia6 km
- Ayrkvillage in Gegharkunik Province of Armenia8.5 km
- Tsovakvillage in Gegharkunik Province of Armenia7.2 km
- Vanevanvillage in Gegharkunik Province of Armenia3.8 km
- Pokr Masrikvillage in Gegharkunik Province of Armenia8.6 km