Armenia: In the land of mountains and monasteries

Sacred buildings carved into the rock, cultural heritage from the earth-fire: the country east of the closed border with Turkey has hardly any highlights to offer from tourism - geologically and culturally.Senkrecht rise in the valley floor a hundred meters and higher to the sky: masses of basalt columns, side by side and above each other, as glued together, like gigantic ensembles of organ pipes. Those who stand below and turn their heads upwar…