Armenia has inaugurated what admittedly is the world's longest aerial tramway, facilitating travel to a hilltop medieval cloister in its southern province, in an effort to bring more tourism to the landlocked country boasting an array of historical and cultural sights.
Armenian News
Armenian President Serzh Sarkisian, Nagorno-Karabakh leader Bako Sahakian, the supreme head of the Armenian Apostolic Church, Catholicos Karekin II, government officials and other high-ranking guests on Saturday attended a ceremony launching a 5.7-kilometer-long tramway connecting the village of Halidzor in Armenia's Syunik province with the ninth-century monastery of Tatev.
The project in an area situated some 280 kilometers to the southeast of capital Yerevan cost about $18 million and was completed within less than a year. Armenian News
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