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city guide","hw_hub_city_hero_h1":"Things To Do In Goris","hw_hub_city_hero_intro":"A grid-planned town under rock spires in the far south, and the base for Tatev monastery and the longest cable car in the world.","hw_hub_city_hero_image":"1304060","hw_hub_city_hero_overlay":"light","hw_hub_city_hero_cta":"Where to stay | #areas\r\nWhat it costs | #money","hw_hub_city_live_stats":"1","hw_hub_city_stats":"5.7km | The Wings of Tatev, the longest cable car\r\n9th c. | Tatev monastery\r\n4h | From Yerevan by marshrutka","hw_hub_city_intro_title":"The southern base, under the rock cones","hw_hub_city_intro_body":"Goris sits in a valley in Syunik, the long southern province, surrounded by eroded rock spires and cave dwellings that people lived in until the nineteenth century. The town below them was laid out on a Russian imperial grid in the 1870s, which makes it unusually orderly for Armenia.\r\n\r\nIt is the base for Tatev, a ninth-century monastery on a cliff edge reached by the Wings of Tatev \u2014 at 5.7 kilometres, the longest reversible cable car in the world, strung across a gorge.\r\n\r\nGoris is also the last town of any size before the Iranian border, and the southern highway through here has carried a great deal of history, most of it recent and difficult.\r\n\r\nA night, or two with Khndzoresk and the Vorotan gorge. It is four hours from Yerevan and usually visited on the way south or as an overnight from the capital.","hw_hub_city_facts":"Getting in | Marshrutka from Yerevan, about 4\u20135 hours and \u20ac7\r\nGetting around | Walkable grid. Taxis to Tatev and Khndzoresk\r\nCurrency | Armenian dram. Cash, and few card machines\r\nLanguage | Armenian and Russian. Limited English\r\nWings of Tatev | About \u20ac9 return, and it can close in high wind\r\nRegion | Syunik, on the southern highway. Check advice before border areas","hw_hub_city_areas_title":"Where to stay","hw_hub_city_areas_intro":"A small grid town. Everything is within ten minutes of the centre.","hw_hub_city_areas_map":"1","hw_hub_city_areas_zoom":"14","hw_hub_city_hostels_pins":"1","hw_hub_city_areas_live":"","hw_hub_city_areas":"Town centre | First-timers | The nineteenth-century grid: guesthouses, restaurants, the marshrutka stop and the park. | 39.5090 | 46.3410 |  | \nOld Goris | Views and the rock cones | The eastern edge below the spires and cave dwellings, a twenty-minute walk from the centre. | 39.5120 | 46.3540 |  | \nHalidzor | For Tatev | The village at the cable car station, half an hour by road, with a few guesthouses and the gorge below. | 39.4060 | 46.2450 |  | ","hw_hub_city_itin_title":"How long have you got?","hw_hub_city_itin_intro":"The routes we would walk, in the order we would walk them.","hw_hub_city_itin":"","hw_hub_city_do_title":"Things to do in Goris","hw_hub_city_do_body":"Tatev is the reason to be here. A ninth-century monastery on a promontory above the Vorotan gorge, reached by the Wings of Tatev cable car \u2014 5.7 kilometres across the gorge in twelve minutes, and the longest reversible cable car in the world. It costs about \u20ac9 return and the monastery itself is free.\r\n\r\nKhndzoresk, twenty minutes east, is an abandoned cave settlement in a canyon, inhabited into the 1950s, with a swinging footbridge across the gorge and hundreds of dwellings cut into the rock.\r\n\r\nOld Goris, on the edge of the town, has the same cave houses under eroded stone cones, and you can walk up from the centre in twenty minutes.\r\n\r\nThe Vorotan gorge and the Devil's Bridge below Tatev have hot springs and travertine formations, reached by a rough road.","hw_hub_city_do_points":"Wings of Tatev | About \u20ac9 return, 5.7km, and closes in high wind\r\nTatev monastery | Ninth century, on a cliff edge, and free to enter\r\nKhndzoresk | A cave village with a swinging bridge, lived in until the 1950s\r\nOld Goris | Cave houses under rock cones, twenty minutes from the centre","hw_hub_city_do_tag":"things-to-do","hw_hub_city_do_more":"All things to do in Goris","hw_hub_city_free_title":"Free things to do in Goris","hw_hub_city_free_body":"Walking up to the rock cones and cave dwellings above Old Goris is free and takes an hour or two.\r\n\r\nTatev monastery itself is free \u2014 only the cable car charges, and there is a road up if you have a car or a taxi.\r\n\r\nKhndzoresk's swinging bridge and cave village have a small entry in season and are free outside it.\r\n\r\nThe town's grid, the park and the market cost nothing, and the Vorotan gorge walking is free if you can reach the trailheads.","hw_hub_city_free_points":"The rock cones | Above Old Goris, an hour or two on foot\r\nTatev monastery | Free. Only the cable car costs\r\nThe Vorotan gorge | Free walking, if you can reach the start\r\nThe market | Small, local and free to wander","hw_hub_city_free_tag":"free-things-to-do","hw_hub_city_free_more":"All free things to do in Goris","hw_hub_city_food_title":"Eating and drinking in Goris","hw_hub_city_food_body":"Guesthouse cooking is the food here. Syunik is a farming province and dinner is usually whatever the household has: cheese, herbs, preserves, bread and a grilled meat, at \u20ac5 to \u20ac10.\r\n\r\nIn town, a few restaurants do khorovats and Armenian staples at \u20ac4 to \u20ac8.\r\n\r\nMulberry vodka is the southern speciality and every guesthouse makes its own, offered after dinner and considerably stronger than described.\r\n\r\nThe province grows good fruit, and the roadside stalls in summer sell apricots, mulberries and walnuts by the bag.","hw_hub_city_food_points":"Guesthouse dinner | \u20ac5\u201310, and the best food in town\r\nMulberry vodka | Homemade in every guesthouse. Very strong\r\nKhorovats | \u20ac4\u20138 in the town restaurants\r\nRoadside fruit | Apricots, mulberries and walnuts in summer","hw_hub_city_food_tag":"food","hw_hub_city_food_more":"All food guides for Goris","hw_hub_city_nightlife_title":"Going out in Goris","hw_hub_city_nightlife_body":"There is none to speak of, and nobody comes here for it.\r\n\r\nA couple of bars and caf\u00e9s in the centre are open in the evening, a beer is \u20ac1.20 to \u20ac2, and the town is quiet well before midnight.\r\n\r\nThe evening here is dinner at a guesthouse table with whatever the family is drinking, which in Syunik means mulberry vodka and a long conversation in three languages.\r\n\r\nYerevan is four hours away.","hw_hub_city_nightlife_points":"Almost nothing | A couple of caf\u00e9s, and quiet before midnight\r\nGuesthouse tables | Where the evening actually happens\r\nMulberry vodka | The local drink, and it will be offered\r\nPrices | A beer \u20ac1.20\u20132","hw_hub_city_nightlife_tag":"nightlife","hw_hub_city_nightlife_more":"All nightlife guides for Goris","hw_hub_city_transport_title":"Getting around Goris","hw_hub_city_transport_body":"Marshrutkas from Yerevan take four to five hours and cost about \u20ac7, leaving in the morning from the southern bus station. Book or arrive early in summer \u2014 there are only a few a day.\r\n\r\nThe town itself is a small grid and walkable.\r\n\r\nTatev needs a taxi to the Halidzor cable car station, about \u20ac10 to \u20ac15 return with waiting, or \u20ac20 to \u20ac30 to drive up to the monastery itself on the road. Sharing with other guesthouse guests is standard.\r\n\r\nKhndzoresk is \u20ac8 to \u20ac12 return by taxi. Marshrutkas continue south to Kapan and eventually the Iranian border, and north-east towards the Azerbaijani frontier \u2014 check current advice before travelling those roads.","hw_hub_city_transport_points":"Marshrutka from Yerevan | Four to five hours, about \u20ac7, only a few a day\r\nTaxi to Tatev | \u20ac10\u201315 return to the cable car. Share one\r\nKhndzoresk | \u20ac8\u201312 return by taxi\r\nSouthern roads | Check current advice before routes near the borders","hw_hub_city_transport_tag":"transport","hw_hub_city_transport_more":"All transport guides for Goris","hw_hub_city_money_title":"What Goris costs","hw_hub_city_money_body":"Cheap, and mostly guesthouses. Beds are \u20ac7 to \u20ac18, guesthouse dinner \u20ac5 to \u20ac10, and a beer \u20ac1.20 to \u20ac2.\r\n\r\nA day is \u20ac20 to \u20ac35.\r\n\r\nThe cable car at about \u20ac9 return and taxis at \u20ac8 to \u20ac15 are the costs that matter, and both are halved by sharing.\r\n\r\nCash only in practice. There are ATMs in Goris and very few south of here, so take what you need if you are continuing towards Kapan or Iran.","hw_hub_city_money_points":"Bed | \u20ac7\u201318, mostly guesthouses\r\nA day, all in | \u20ac20\u201335\r\nWings of Tatev | About \u20ac9 return\r\nTake cash | Very few ATMs south of Goris","hw_hub_city_money_tag":"budget","hw_hub_city_money_more":"All budget guides for Goris","hw_hub_city_safety_title":"Staying safe in Goris","hw_hub_city_safety_body":"Goris is a quiet, safe town and travellers report no problems in it.\r\n\r\nThe regional context matters here more than anywhere else in Armenia. Syunik borders Azerbaijan, the situation in the region changed fundamentally in 2023, and sections of the southern highway run close to the frontier. Government advice restricts travel near the border and has changed repeatedly \u2014 check your own government's current position before planning routes east or south-east of the main road, and follow local guidance.\r\n\r\nThe town also received large numbers of people displaced from Nagorno-Karabakh in 2023, which is worth knowing and worth being thoughtful about in conversation.\r\n\r\nOtherwise: mountain roads, patchy signal, and a cable car that closes in high wind. Emergency number is 911.","hw_hub_city_safety_points":"Check current advice | Syunik borders Azerbaijan and guidance changes\r\nStay on the main routes | Sections of road run close to the frontier\r\nBe thoughtful | The town took in many displaced people in 2023\r\nEmergency | 911","hw_hub_city_safety_tag":"safety","hw_hub_city_safety_more":"All safety guides for Goris","hw_hub_city_trips_title":"Day trips from Goris","hw_hub_city_trips_intro":"Two of the best sights in Armenia are within half an hour.","hw_hub_city_trips":"Tatev monastery | 30 minutes | Taxi to Halidzor, cable car about \u20ac9 return | A ninth-century monastery on a cliff above the Vorotan gorge, reached by the longest reversible cable car in the world. |  | 1304095\nKhndzoresk | 20 minutes | Taxi, \u20ac8\u201312 return | An abandoned cave village in a canyon, inhabited until the 1950s, with a swinging footbridge across the gorge. |  | 1304096\nShaki waterfall | 45 minutes | Taxi | An eighteen-metre waterfall near Sisian, best in spring when the flow is high. |  | 1304097","hw_hub_city_trips_tag":"day-trips","hw_hub_city_trips_more":"All day trips from Goris","hw_hub_city_season_title":"When to go","hw_hub_city_season_intro":"May to October. The south is milder than the north but the mountain roads are winter roads.","hw_hub_city_season_note":"Average highs. Goris sits at 1,400m in a valley, and Tatev is higher and cooler again. The cable car closes in high wind at any time of year.","hw_hub_city_season_rows":"January | 3 | 1 | Cold, and mountain roads can close with snow\r\nFebruary | 5 | 1 | Still winter. Very quiet\r\nMarch | 10 | 2 | Thawing. Waterfalls at full flow\r\nApril | 16 | 4 | Excellent. Green, and the gorge is at its best\r\nMay | 21 | 5 | The best month. Warm, clear and everything open\r\nJune | 26 | 5 | Warm and dry. Long days for the gorge\r\nJuly | 29 | 4 | Hot in the valley, cooler up at Tatev\r\nAugust | 29 | 4 | The same, and the busiest month for the cable car\r\nSeptember | 25 | 5 | Superb. Harvest and clear air\r\nOctober | 18 | 4 | Autumn colour in the gorge. Very good\r\nNovember | 10 | 2 | Cooling, and guesthouses thinning out\r\nDecember | 4 | 1 | Cold and quiet. Snow on the passes","hw_hub_city_events_title":"What is on while you are there","hw_hub_city_events_intro":"A quiet calendar in a quiet province.","hw_hub_city_events_source":"api","hw_hub_city_events_count":"8","hw_hub_city_events_cache":"24","hw_hub_city_events_cta_label":"All events in Goris","hw_hub_city_events_cta_url":"https:\/\/www.hostelworld.com\/events\/europe\/armenia\/goris\/","hw_hub_city_events":"Tatev pilgrimage days | Various | Tatev monastery | The monastery is working and holds services on saints' days, when the cable car queues are longest. |  | \nVardavar | July | Townwide | The national water festival, observed here as everywhere in Armenia. |  | \nHarvest | September | Syunik | Fruit and walnut harvest, with roadside stalls at their fullest. |  | \nGoris City Day | Autumn | Town centre | Local concerts and events in the grid town. |  | \nSpring waterfalls | March to May | Shaki and the gorge | When snowmelt brings the falls and the Vorotan to full flow. |  | ","hw_hub_city_budget_title":"What your trip will cost","hw_hub_city_budget_intro":"Pick how you travel. Per person per night, in euros.","hw_hub_city_budget_note":"The doing line assumes the cable car and a shared taxi. Both are considerably cheaper split between three or four.","hw_hub_city_budget_rows":"Shoestring | 7 | 6 | 2 | 9\r\nMiddle of the road | 15 | 13 | 5 | 18\r\nComfortable | 30 | 26 | 10 | 30","hw_hub_city_budget_currency":"\u20ac","hw_hub_city_hostels_title":"Where to stay in Goris","hw_hub_city_hostels_intro":"Family guesthouses, mostly in the grid town, and a few up at Halidzor by the cable car. Live from Hostelworld.","hw_hub_city_hostels_cta_label":"All hostels in Goris","hw_hub_city_hostels_cta_url":"https:\/\/www.hostelworld.com\/hostels\/europe\/armenia\/goris\/","hw_hub_city_hostels_source":"api","hw_hub_city_hostels_count":"12","hw_hub_city_hostels_cache":"12","hw_hub_city_picks":"Best for solo travellers |  |  | \nBest for a party |  |  | \nQuietest |  |  | ","hw_hub_city_hostels":"","hw_hub_city_faq_title":"Goris travel questions","hw_hub_city_faq_note":"The ones we get asked most.","hw_hub_city_faqs":"What is the Wings of Tatev? | A cable car running 5.7 kilometres across the Vorotan gorge to Tatev monastery, the longest reversible cable car in the world. It takes twelve minutes, costs about \u20ac9 return, and closes in high wind \u2014 there is a road up as a backup.\r\nHow long do you need in Goris? | A night. One day covers Tatev and Khndzoresk with a shared taxi. Two if you want the Vorotan gorge, the hot springs or Zorats Karer near Sisian.\r\nIs it easy to reach from Yerevan? | Four to five hours by marshrutka for about \u20ac7, with only a few departures a day from the southern bus station. Most people either overnight here or stop on the way further south.\r\nWhat is Khndzoresk? | An abandoned cave village in a canyon twenty minutes east, lived in until the 1950s, with hundreds of dwellings cut into the rock and a swinging footbridge across the gorge.\r\nIs the south of Armenia safe to travel? | Syunik borders Azerbaijan and the regional situation changed fundamentally in 2023. Government advice restricts travel near the frontier and has changed repeatedly \u2014 check your own government's current position before planning routes off the main highway, and follow local guidance.\r\nDo I need cash? | Yes, and take extra. There are ATMs in Goris and very few further south, and guesthouses here generally do not take cards.\r\nWhen should I visit? | May, June, September or October. Winter brings snow to the passes and the mountain roads, and the cable car can close in wind at any time of year.","hw_hub_city_cta_title":"Say yes to hostels, meet the world","hw_hub_city_cta_body":"Compare Goris guesthouses and hostels \u2014 live prices, real reviews and free cancellation on most bookings. Then meet the people already there in the app.","hw_hub_city_cta_buttons":"Find hostels in Goris | https:\/\/www.hostelworld.com\/hostels\/europe\/armenia\/goris\/\r\nGet the app | https:\/\/hostelworld.onelink.me\/IdiK\/f5a50nhd","hw_hub_city_newsletter_title":"Get the good stuff monthly","hw_hub_city_newsletter_body":"New city guides, deals and route ideas. 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