Armenia — A journey among monasteries

Armenia is the first Christian nation in the world — and you feel it in every stone. Monasteries carved directly into rock, basalt crosses in the middle of nowhere, tables that seem like biblical banquets, and a volcanic landscape stretching to Ararat, the sacred mountain that still watches the horizon though it now belongs to the other side of the border. A journey through Armenia is intimate and deep. From Yerevan — that pink capital at the foot of Ararat — to the monasteries of Tatev and Khor Virap, to Lake Sevan and the cave churches of Geghard. Eight to ten days for a land that gives itself slowly, but whole.