Tatevskaya desert. More precisely, the Great or Great Tatev Desert is a once majestic monastery, hiding from the mortal world behind high stone walls, and now successfully masking itself in the thickets of greenery of the Vorotan River gorge. How many times we drove past on the highway - never once did it occur to us that a huge three-nave church, a cell gallery, a spacious refectory and a number of outbuildings were hiding under this greenery. We came there on foot from the road to Tatev - for young children it was an adventure trip: walk along the cliff, cross a rickety bridge, see caves and unusual flowers. We spent more than an hour in the desert - silence and grace, a conversation with a hermit. The hermit lives there all year round, prays, works on the farm (grass in summer, snow in winter, firewood). I recommend this quiet and soulful place to my friends.

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