Tsaghkadzor. Hotel complex.

Tsaghkadzor. Hotel complex.

⛰ Tsaghkadzor - homeland of the Orbeli brothers and clown Leonid Engibaryan - sits quite high in the mountains. A trip to the mountains here feels like moving to another season or climate zone. In autumn, like in "The Twelve Months" fairy tale, you can travel from winter to summer and back. This time we moved from hot southern summer into mild central-Russia-like summer.

🌲🌳🌿 Vegetation is what you might expect near Moscow, but probably with more grasses and flowers. 🌲🌳🌿

🏡 We stayed in a small island of cottages inside forest on a mountainside. The road climbs at an angle that Gruzinskaya Street could only envy, more like a walking path on top of Sparrow Hills. 🏡

(ᴗ˳ᴗ)ᶻ𝗓 The hotel complex sleeps, like all Tsaghkadzor, waiting for winter ski season. You have to switch on sauna yourself, and pool water is cold. But there is no problem playing billiards or taking firewood, lighting the grill, and having barbecue in one of the cozy gazebos on the complex grounds. (ᴗ˳ᴗ)ᶻ𝗓

🍽 Very colorful dining hall. Floor-to-ceiling windows facing a mountain stream. Very authentically, on the other side of the windows, a local cat with a gangster look patrols around. Mountain mint is laid out and drying on a table. 🍽

🐗 Our goal was to rest from bustle and recover a bit. But you cannot sit in one place all day. First, we explored around the hotel complex, met lizards darting across sun-warmed stones. Then an unexpected find: an enclosure fenced with chain-link, containing about half a dozen wild boars. We could not find out who made this enclosure and why. But fact remains: we could observe the wildest of wildlife from arm’s length. 🦎

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