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Armenia with Nagorno Karabagh, 2nd: The Bradt Travel Guide

Armenia with Nagorno Karabagh, 2nd: The Bradt Travel Guide
By Nicholas Holding

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This guide is still the only one in English to offer comprehensive information on travel in Armenia, a destination well worth visiting in its own right. This rural retreat enjoys an astonishingly well-preserved legacy of monastic buildings, often set in magnificent locations. Nicholas Holding covers a wide spectrum of activities that give Armenia a huge potential for visitors, including birding, hiking, the arts, architectural tours, botanical trips, angling, horseriding, and caving.
 
Features include:
 
*A variety of sections with strong appeal to visitors: architecture, wildlife, religion, and culture
*Vital practical details on visas, red tape, land border crossings, health, and safety, plus useful words and phrases
*Full and half-day excursions from the capital, Yerevan
*The territory of Nagorno Karabagh
 
 

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  • Amazon Sales Rank: #404448 in Books
  • Published on: 2006-10-01
  • Original language: English
  • Number of items: 1
  • Binding: Paperback
  • 248 pages

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From the Back Cover

Armenia is an enigmatic country steeped in history and legend. Gaze upon snow-capped mountains and banks of colorful flowers, marvel at ancient churches and fortresses perched above deep river gorges, and search for monasteries hidden in wooded valleys. Enjoy highlights including Selim caravanserai and the field of 900 intricately carved cross-stones at Noratus.
 
In this fully updated second edition, Nicholas Holding leads you from Armenia's capital to out-of-the-way sights. For detailed history and thorough practical information, Bradt's Armenia is indispensable.
 
*Walking tours--city strolls to mountain treks
 
*Exquisite stone carvings and medieval monasteries
 
*The capital, Yerevan--museums, markets and more
 
*National parks and wildlife
 
*The territory of Nagorno Karabagh
 
*Useful words and phrases

About the Author

Nicholas Holding is a consultant engineer who has traveled widely with his job. His personal interest in eastern European history, natural history, and religion has led to extensive travel in the region, including a number of visits to Armenia.

Customer Reviews

Top notch guide for in-country travel5
I recently moved to Armenia and purchased this book right before leaving the USA. My interest was mainly to use it to find neat places to go in the countryside, and this book definitely fills that purpose. We live in Yerevan, the capital, which is fairly well documented by the book.
Our second weekend in the country we decided to travel up one of the nearby mountains - wife and three young children - to go sledding in April - and not speaking ANY Armenian yet. All we had to go on was the region map on page 106 and the narative description on the authors travels. We made it to our destination (and two meter deep snow) easily.
Just this past weekend we used the book again to visit an old (1000AD) castle ruins and some monestaries hidden in the forests of the Lori region. The narative in the book was once again precise in all details - our only issue was when we encountered a newly paved road that was described as being in poor condition in the book (time has passed since the writting).
I specially commend the book for those interested in getting out and around to the more remote areas.
The book would be considerably better with maps of every town that the main roads turn in and color pictures mixed in with the text (right now the pictures are all at the center of the book). Yerevan itself is changing rapidly and may not be quite as described, but the countryside is almost identical to when the author visited.

excellent effort., well worth buying4
This the first guidebook by a major publisher to this wonderful country. The book has a couple of quirks but makes up for it
with lots of detail and a real passion for the country.
It's a huge leap forward from the 'Georgia with Armenia' book previously published by Bradt. There are maps for each marz (province) and a smattering of city maps - Yerevan, Gyumri and Ejmiatsin. My main quibbles is that the selection of restaurants in Yerevan isn't as good as it could have been, and that the author has a clear fascination for trains which may not be shared by all readers. For example, most of the space devoted to Kapan, one of the nicer regional cities, refers to the trains and carriages stranded there. Otherwise, it's well written and obviously very thoroughly researched. The only place I can see which was missed is the Amaras monastery in Karabakh.

good effort3
I agree with the other reviewer - it's a good effort and fairly well written. My main issues with this book are 1) that the photographs are incredibly bleak. If I had not visited Armenia last year, I definitely would not have based on the pictures. 2) The Nagorno Karabagh section was very light. It basically seemed like an after thought that was tacked on the last minute.