HIKE ARMENIA - The Untouched Beauty of Dilijan

this is so nice we keep going up and down these hills and each time you do you get an incredible view good morning guys and welcome to Armenia what about that for a wake-up call having that lake right next to us when we woke up from camping and now we get to begin on another day's hike I'm sure we'll discover even more awesome things so rather than elaborating I'll just show you no you're good alrighty Louis we're gonna not make any noise for 15 minutes from here hiking down on the trail, think of the day, get our intention and enjoy the nature so this dog's followed us so far and now she's taking, oh there's my shadow just taking a little bit of a bath aren't you darling? we've just been given some walnuts which grow naturally here this will work fine and these have been peeled, sugared and jammed and now they turn like this I've never had a walnut like this but I will be in the future that's really good it's like a walnut dessert what is it? the taste of it it's much harder than I thought, I thought it was gonna be squishy we just pulled in here for a quick coffee break and a walnut break like I just showed you and now we're in the town or village of Gorsz I think, Gorsz, is it Gorsz or Gorszowank? so this is the town of Gorsz and this right here seems like a tourist site, it's Gorszowank let me show you how cool is that? it's a bit of a tourist site of this region I think but we've came to it in a really nice way because we've hiked through to it rather than getting a bus we're gonna continue past this but I think we're gonna check out the church god I can't talk, very quickly another day, another dog you'll see a lot of monasteries, this is an absolutely beautiful one on top of this little peak I think, just on the other side is where we're having lunch this is so nice, we keep going up and down these hills and each time you do, you get an incredible view come say hi again we got our lunch, can't see it yet but the sandwich smells damn good so this is very cool, the route we're walking and even this bridge we're crossing now was created by the high carmenia guys so Adak, you just said you made this right? you tackled this out and you made this bridge here yeah, during the trail building in 2017 this bridge and then this trail now is a newly cut trail that part we just hiked was older but right ok, you did this more recently I said in the last video it took them a few months to carvel this out a team of 20 people and now it's built for anyone to come and use so this is natural spring water from the source just came out the side of the hill here and it's completely drinkable and really cold as well hey family so this is our campsite for day 2 just pulled up right here and this is my tent I got sun cream in my eye oh god that's painful but I'm going to do this anyway we're walking down to the lake right now there's a lake nearby where we're camping that's where we're having dinner and yes, it's very chilled sort of days we're only walking until about 3pm and then we have the whole afternoon to enjoy the campsite how bad does that look one more time? Nishan and it's grilled it's amazing Nishan good morning guys back on the trail we're hiking to Dilijan today which is 13.6km away we camped again last night and had a beautiful campfire nice chats again and got to wake up in nature with all the sounds around us and get to go back on the road I can't really say much more than that to be honest because that's been completely ideal right now let's get on with it and see what we see today Armenian man strong good advertisement come to Armenia get a husband it's so nice whenever we do hikes like this we always get a trail dog it makes it that much better we don't try and bring them along but a dog will just follow you because they like the company and you can just go walking with a dog it's really nice thank you Ardag look at this we just arrived for lunch and we have old Armenian style handmade carpets to sit on in this view check it out we even have coffee in the field this is hospitality up until now it's been a really quite wide trail but this is just where it's grown back in the space of a few weeks because of the amount of rain and sun they've had here so we have to kind of hack our way through this and honestly it just grows back that quick look at that so one of the cool things about this trek and this trail is that it's fairly new it's only been here for the last two years so everyone we are passing which haven't been many people at all we've been asking how they find out about it and it's all through Hike Armenia the guys that organise this because they've done all of the trail making and they've only opened it up themselves so honestly if you want to come on a untouched less touristy hike through somewhere then this is probably the place there's not many people at all that have done this that dog's made a friend what did you think? good three day hike? it was amazing so much flowers so much nature it's beautiful what did you think? what a great segway yeah it was really cool we just got to Diljan now which is the end of the hike for these last three days I think we're here tonight, we have a hotel rather than camping which is a nice surprise because I thought we were doing 10 days camping yeah let's see shower we're just about to arrive to Diljan the place we're sleeping tonight and this is the drunken forest all the trees go off at these different angles that's why it's called the drunken forest shortcut we were just taking some photos and we got separated from the group but I just tried out the hike Armenia app and we found our way back pretty easily I don't know how we got lost because we were only about 5 minutes away from the end but at least the app works wow this is cool I did not expect this I just arrived after three days hiking that's sweet it's never looked so good I feel very spoiled and I'm going to shower get all this mud off me and make the most of that to finish up today we're doing some dancing to traditional Armenian instruments I have been up there by the way, I just jumped off just to film this little bit but yeah, what a perfect end to this day and these guys are great what an end to a couple of days here in Armenia and that was such a cool experience there were traditional instruments, I think one's called the duduk, if I got it right yeah, just so cool in an old amphitheater like this that seems like a good place to finish this video so I'll just say again, if you're interested in Armenia, check it out in the description below there's still plenty more videos to come I've got another week here yet so for now, thank you for watching and see you again soon