Introducing Yeghegnadzor & Around
An overgrown country town built on twisting lanes that wind into the hills, Yeghegnadzor (yeh-heg-nadzor) is the peaceful administrative centre of Vayots Dzor. The town is a mainly Soviet-era confection of wide civic spaces and tufa apartment blocks. A few small factories (eg a diamond-cutting plant) have opened, but remittances and agriculture provide the biggest incomes. There isn’t much to see in the town itself, but it does make a good base to explore the region – you could easily spend three or four days here in between trips to Yeghegis village, Noravank, the Ajeri and Arpi caves and the wineries in Areni and Spitakavor.
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The town has moneychangers, a UniBank (52 13 43) with an ATM (accepting Visa cards) and the Arpa Net Internet Café (2 21 23; per hr AMD300; 9am-9pm) just downhill from the avtokayan.
Last updated: Mar 24, 2009
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