After visiting Surb-Khach, we have a night in the next forested valley after monastery. By the way, there we found ruins of another ancient monastery - Surb-Stepanos. But it was in worse condition than Surb-Khach. The next morning we went south. After some hours in mountain forest we suddenly got into garden of another live monastery - Kyzyltash. If you want to go by car from Surb-Khach to Kyzyltash, you should make a greate "circle". But, going by foot we could went from one to another in rather shorter way.
Like many others, Kyzyltash monastery didn't act in Soviet times. But, what is most interesting, Soviet government had made military object in this walley, where nuclear weapon was storaged. Now here are no nuclear weapon, but army unit still acts and occupies a large part of valley just near the monastery.
We looked interesting places in Kyzyltash, especially sacred spring and new wooden church. Then we walked accros willage and saw army unit. After that we went into forested mountains again. To the evening we reached eastern corner of Echki-Dag. There we made a camp with a beautiful view of Kara-Dag and Black Sea in the south.
Links in the text lead to online-photoalbums. Some photos from there you can see below.
Ruins of Surb-Stepanos
New church in Kyzyltash
View of Kyzyltash monastery
Former nuclear object
Morining in Echki-Dagto be continued
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