Hike to East Turkey's Most Secluded Church in Isolated Gorge 🇹🇷

🇹🇷 Another day of exploring East Turkey's most remote lands and ancient places.
First, we visited the mosque of a Kurdish-inhabited settlement, Varlı Village, which is in the Digor District of Kars Province.
We stopped by an old Karapapakh cemetery and explored some of the beautiful tombstones. Karapapakh (Terekeme) people are an ethnic group of Azerbaijani Turks.
Our final destination was the Khtzkonk Medieval Armenian Monastery ("Beş Kilise" in Turkish) which stands in a very remote gorge. We had to take a long and challenging hike, in which we almost got attacked by Anatolian shepherd dogs.
►Chapters:
00:00 Intro
00:25 Varlı Village Mosque
02:26 Karapapakh Azerbaijani Cemetery
04:05 Hiking in Isolated Hills of Kars
08:58 Khtzkonk Monastery (Beş Kilise)
11:22 Trying to go back before dark
13:52 End
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