the best exchage office and other Dilijan, Armenia Things to Do Tips

Nothing to see by the main roundabout - but this is likely where you'll end up when arriving in Dilijan... You can find everything you need at the small grocery store, and right next to it, in case you need it, there's the pharmacy (see photo) and exchange office - with the best exchange rate we found in Armenia (400 to a dollar, compared to the 390 to a dollar that we found elsewhere). Change plenty of money...

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Address: main roundabout
Directions: where kalinin poghots, maksim gorki poghots and ljevan highway meet

The Russian steps are not called like this - but nowhere I was able to find out anything about them. They are a bizarre feature of Myasnikyan poghots - they start from nowhere and lead to nowhere.

An inscription at the base of the step, complete with hammer and sickle, and soviet star, tells you that these very unsoviet-like steps were built in 1948.

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Address: Myasnikyan poghots
Directions: uphill from the roundabout

Far out in the distance, and cleverly conceived to be seen from all over town , there's a tall crown-shaped large white monument.

It is the monument for the 50th anniversary of the soviet in Armenia.

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Directions: it's located off ljevan highway