Garni Gorge: Armenia’s Basalt Canyon
Just east of Yerevan, a river canyon slices through a 127,000-year-old lava flow and reveals an organ-pipe wall of stone. Locals call it the “Basalt Organ,” others the “Symphony of Stones.” Above the cliffs, the 1st-century Temple of Garni watches over a landscape where geology, history, and daily life meet. What is Garni Gorge? Garni […]