UNREAL Armenian BEEF KEBABS! + Visiting Tatev Monastery & Cable Car | Tatev, Armenia

Day 8 of my incredible trip through Armenia was another awesome journey through one of the most magical countries I’ve ever visited. Join me as I enjoy some out-of-this-world Armenian beef kebabs, visit the beautiful Tatev Monastery, and ride a cable car in Tatev, Armenia!
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My eighth day in Armenia began at the beautiful and cold Harsanadzor Eco Resort in southeastern Armenia for breakfast. I went with apricot jam and cheese wrapped in the lavash. I loved the sweet and salty combination!
Then, we drove 20 minutes to the 9th-century Tatev Monastery. It was home to the University of Tatev in the 14th and 15th centuries. It has two watchtowers, huge walls, and a main gate, so it looks more like a fortress. It actually was a fortress at one time! Inside the gate the 9th-century Saints Paul and Peter Church. It was named after them because some of their relics were found under the columns inside the church.
There’s also a small, cozy 11th-century church called Holy Mother of God Church. It was restored in the 20th century after suffering damage from an earthquake in 1931. The church is probably the smallest church I’ve ever visited! As we climbed to the top, I saw lots of blooming crosses carved into the outside walls.
On the outside walls is script written in Armenian. It’s a mix of contracts and the history of the church! There, part of the wall has been destroyed, so you get a stunning view over the gorge. The relics at Saints Paul and Peter Church are under the columns, so you can’t actually see them. But you can see the grave of the main scholar at the monastery, and the 14th-century bells, which still function today!
Inside the church, you have to take off your hat and women must cover their head. The look is very medieval and the walls are covered in frescoes.
The monastery owned 600 villages and collected taxes from all of them. They invested that money in the creation of manuscripts and building the monastery.
Then, we headed to the residential area, where I learned that the monastery’s library contained 10,000 manuscripts that were destroyed when the Seljuk Turks invaded in the 12th century.
One of the monastery’s most famous structures is the Gavazan Siun, or pendulous column. It shows the position of Orion’s Belt every August 11. In ancient times, that was the start of the new year!
Then, we left the monastery to catch the Wings of Tatev cable car down. The views as you travel above the gorge are insanely beautiful. I loved the “wow” factor of it! The ride took 12 minutes.
Then, it was time for lunch! We passed from the Syunik Province into the Vayots Dzor Province, which is famous for its narrow gorges. The landscapes change so quickly and drastically in Armenia. You can go through 8 climate zones there!
Then, we arrived at Food Court. There, we’d have some beef kebabs and salads. After a quick toast, I dug into the beef kebab, which came in a rolled-up lavash with a delicious sauce and vegetables. It also had a bit of spice to it!
Then, I had a watery yogurt drink called matzoon and a roasted vegetable salad with eggplant. Then, I had another salad of carrots with oil and pepper, and a beets and pea salad with red beans. Everything was so refreshing and healthy!
I hope you enjoyed coming with me to Tatev, Armenia! If you did, please give this video a thumbs up and leave a comment below. Also, please subscribe to my KZbin channel and click the notification bell so you don’t miss any of my travel/food adventures!
Special thanks to my friends at Armenia Travel for their kindness, hospitality, and for arranging my trip. I couldn’t have done it without them!
Also, if you would like to visit Tatev, please contact Lusine.
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[@msridharc]

Armenia is absolutely beautiful. Thank you David and Lusine !!!

[@naraava1992]

Your series about Armenia are the most interesting and fantastically beautiful .Waiting for new series . Thank you very much.

[@dalialule6324]

Im drooling over the food. Yum. And the churchs we have is known as the armenian vatican. I love echmiatzin and our beautiful cathedrals. Long live our beautiful 🇦🇲. ➕💕💕➕.

[@keepcreationprocess]

@@dalialule6324 meee tooo. I am soo jealous of him.

[@zelina364]

Beautiful Armenia..

[@koshtigir3437]

We Iranian love Armenia 🇦🇲 ❤️❤️

[@MsBiayna]

We love you too our dear Iranian brothers and sisters 🇦🇲❤💙🧡 IR💚🤍❤

[@purringinmyear]

Every time I watch your videos I get hungry and I have to eat at the end of it. You are doing a fantastic job of showing Armenia.

[@MsFlashLights]

This series is fantastic. You have a great friendship with your guides and it comes through on each video 🙋🏽

[@Davidsbeenhere]

Shay Daoud yes we are good friends now!

[@kenounjian9684]

It’s a fascinating Armenia series.

[@Davidsbeenhere]

Ken Ounjian thank you!!!

[@dalialule6324]

@@levonalyanakian1831 well barev to you aswell.

[@salmathecopt7969]

💖Armenia. Want to live in a monastery for a year. On my bucketlist.

[@laralara103]

Lusine jan you are so special ❤️❤️❤️❤️ love you so much! մերսի քեզ մեր երկիրը այդքան գեղեցիկ ներկայացնելու համար, քո գիտելիքների համար!

[@bernardber6750]

Beautiful scenery, delicious kebabs and Lusine. Excellent video David.

[@RockstarEater]

This Armenian food makes me want to be a rockstar eater in Armenia. Gonfund me to get there. Lol

[@AR-ef1rs]

Rockstar Eater lol please come to Armenia, us Armenians will welcome you with open arms❤️😊

[@dalialule6324]

Rockstar eater,, please try the chicken lule kebab and tabuli. Yumm.

[@RockstarEater]

@@dalialule6324 Kind of like these Armenian kabobs!: kzbin.info/www/bejne/qJbQY2hoo5iUnZo My eating adventures in LA!

[@Robert_N]

@@RockstarEater It's Kebabs not Kabobs.

[@Kundapur123]

armenia looks a beautiful country with lovely food and wine. i must visit it

[@AStupidTourist]

Thank you for taking us on this adventure . Hoping you hit 1 million soon . You deserve it . Cheers 🍻

[@mirostoch]

This is coming from my HEART! KURDISTAN loves Armenia! We Are sorry for the past, and remember most of Kurds loves HAYASTAN, not all Kurds that was Involved in the genocide!

[@tsocanuck]

gorgeous tour guide

[@familyvideosamericausa547]

Wow guys it’s 12:45 am you made me hungry 😋 LOL,amazing video guys thanks 👍❤️❤️ Happy Valentine’s Day ❤️❤️🌹🍷

[@edennolani8171]

I love Armenia and I love our people 🇦🇲❤️🙏 ALWAYS proud you be Armenian! 😄

[@FoodhealthTravelGuwahati]

Armenian culture is very rich. !!

[@freesnow49]

Thank you mate, once again great vedio

[@sophiaamaly1235]

I am hooked. I just love watching you guys and it's been so informative and yummy.

[@Ecuacolom]

Beautiful country with a rich history. I love your videos David. These videos about Armenia has enlighten me and motivated me to visit Armenia. People in Armenia seem so friendly and hospitable. The food looks so delicious is it expensive over to eat in the restaurants? Are the hotels reasonably price compare to the USA

[@larisapetrosyan4847]

Thank you, David. Hilarious series about Armenia. I just discovered your youtube channel and completely loved the content. Keep going and best of luck. 🌸

[@ahmedirfan86]

Amazing

[@chitrang2441]

But a"I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use.” - Galileo, who was born today in 1564.

[@chitrang2441]

But Allah =🐷🐷🐷🐶🐷🐶🐷🐶

[@ahmedirfan86]

I think u need to change the way u speak

[@ahmedirfan86]

@@chitrang2441 i think u should have some sense bro

[@anizakaryan6723]

chitrang rai you are such an immature idiot.

[@user-zt3ei4is8l]

Thank you David. Ocean positive.

[@salmathecopt7969]

That jam looks delicious

[@dalialule6324]

It does. Im drooling. I wish i couldve been in armenia eating it. 😢😢

[@salmathecopt7969]

@be positive that must be it

[@Robert_N]

Everything looks delicious.

[@tigran1087]

Super video, thanks David.

[@hayman122]

I see you David got the hot guide this time lol

[@caribbeantina4755]

Love watching all your travel videos and have used lots of your restaurant suggestions in Florida and Puerto Rico!

[@hakdrabiz]

Favorite series so far!!!

[@braveenough-renewrecreater5145]

Reliving my trips. Love my home country!

[@satyammittal2731]

Lucine looks like a Egyptian queen

[@Maria-qy8ce]

@@literaturegirlls no one asked where kebabs came from, your problem is that you love inviting yourself to conversations 😂

[@literaturegirlls]

@@Maria-qy8ce You can be an Armenian or you can be an Armenian fan, but the Armenian nation has always stolen traditions from the Turks and introduced it to the world as their own. If you do not know the history, do not talk about history.

[@annasargsyan1167]

@@literaturegirlls would you shut up please 🤣 no one said we invented kebab, when we say Armenian kebab it means how we make it. For example we invented kebab made of bistort, no one made kebab with bistort before us. This kind of foods are being made by absolutely everyone in this region, when you say Azerbaijani kebab it means you stole it from turks?

[@xachiksmbatyan3435]

Lus jan proud of you!!!!

[@manjunathreddy1155]

Devid Doing great job... Exploring other county culture so I love that .. nd her voice is awesome... I love her presentation nd the way of explination.

[@pukkijonson2866]

Welcome to ARMENIA bravo THANK YOU👍👍👍👍👍

[@empireravenshadow5]

This is like being there in person. Thx!

[@elizabeth16598ee]

I watched this while back and omg would love to go to Armenia :) Beautiful :)

[@lukaellach9264]

The gorgeous girl was such a good companion, packed with knowledge and information.

[@xloyanv8428]

Gorgeous Armenia LOVE You !!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@dalialule6324]

My families armemian and my mom said that we have some of the most beautiful scenery in the world. Beautiful 🇦🇲, i love you.

[@bay_fok]

Fuck armenia😂😂😂😂🇹🇷🇹🇷🇹🇷🇹🇷❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️🇦🇿🇦🇿🇦🇿🇦🇿🇦🇿🇦🇿

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@@bay_fok fuck you piece of shit, go get treatment, you are sick !!

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@@bay_fok you're mom

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Love is in the air btwn each othe

[@margarethpinas4400]

Amazing!!

[@user-dx4jn4bb4f]

Such breathtaking view

[@EatwithMohsin]

Your Every video are owsome to see and Delicious to eat 😍😋 Have A Fabulous Sunday 💓💖

[@user-dx4jn4bb4f]

I love this food🥰 my favorite one

[@curtisferrier1905]

Very good

[@tenzinzigme]

Amazing series on Armenia.....wow...I am Hooked now.... Love Lucine- She is beautiful with beautiful personality...

[@tatevikphilipp]

The way you spell „Lusine“ is soo cute 😊 Lusine does her job very good by the way 😊 Apres Lusine yan 🌸

[@mariannehappiness2227]

Incredibly Amazing food ,Culture and Places.Thank you David❤️🌻🌻

[@hasmikkhatchatourians6071]

Lusine is woderful knowlagable young pretty girl. David you are lucky.

[@senex5285]

Wonderful place ❤️👍👍

[@user-us6ce7me8k]

Awesome! 👌👌🤩🤩

[@minku1712]

When I visited Tatev, due to restoration we couldn't go at top level.😥

[@dalialule6324]

Its okay. Next time you go youll see it. God bless you. 🌺➕

[@jackmack9310]

Beautiful Armenia....:))))))

[@-amosc.presley-7192]

*O!! Okay than_ Me had just wanted to STOP right on by to say; thank you, for being "1 of a Kind" also for "Putting me this Early" my friendzy. Anyways! Nice job & thanks, for playing Weekends video.*

[@l.gabriela5746]

Missing so much 🇦🇲❤️

[@dragovocado8392]

what a beautiful country,,,, hope i could go there in the future... in JESUS name. Amen

[@PoisonelleMisty4311]

Wow so cool

[@farrukhafreen1050]

Hello, How did you travel to tatev? I mean by taxi/bus/train/plane?

[@chitrang2441]

"I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use.” - Galileo, who was born today in 1564.

[@KayfOff]

super 👌

[@tevantevo1114]

SUPER👍

[@PixelRage1]

🙌🏻🙌🏻

[@MrGrishik]

Vayk Food Court the best

[@dalialule6324]

I love how traditional my armenian women are. They always wear head scarfs or lace mantilla veils when they enter church, chapel or a cathedral to pray. I dont see that alot anymore.

[@AR-ef1rs]

Dalia Lule headscarf doesn’t mean that the person is sacred

[@dalialule6324]

@@AR-ef1rs but its a respect thing. I respect and love jesus kristos and our holy father God. So i wear one when i pray on sundays. Im very sorry for having a different opinion but thats the way i think. God Bless you very much! And may he bless you with good health! 🙏🙏🙏➕➕➕💕 Takecare!!!

[@blueangel9746]

@@AR-ef1rs But Shows Respect and education , Good Manners

[@qbertangry]

the food video starts at 16:30 You're welcome...

[@nk2023]

Wow

[@fabydilla8717]

👍

[@SD-dt6qe]

👍👍👍👍

[@alejandrosotomartin9720]

Watching this on August 11th.

[@brandonbrewer3543]

How far is this resort from Yerevan?

[@tonfood4574]

👍👍👍

[@Robert_N]

Knife should be in right hand, fork in left hand. BTW the food looks absolutely delicious.

[@Ashot_LA]

👍👍👍👍👍👍

[@AS777top]

❤️🤩👍🇦🇲❤️ *Hello, Welcome to Armenia.*

[@HarryKaladjian]

❤️

[@pranjeetnath5532]

I love that he never forgets india 😅.

[@ganeshprabhu3131]

THANKS FOR CABLE CAR WHICH CAN CARRY 10 AFRICAN ELEPHANTS OF 06 TONS EACH APPROX. AT A TIME.

[@vladibudha]

One question: Do Armenian use Coriander (cilantro)?? in there food

[@hayuhi1164]

vladibudha Yes alot!

[@acuraacura9010]

@@hayuhi1164 mikich

[@arnaldoramos6269]

wowwwww

[@radikro6648]

🇦🇲🇦🇲🇦🇲💪💪👍👍👍 ARMENIA - ARMENIA

[@srxanmansuroglu5440]

Hayastan

[@torgomarmeniya-urartu4230]

Daa tam vkusno bez reklami

[@arameaiv]

Cheese and jam?

[@kevorkkrikorian4221]

11:39 A vertical sundial.

[@artd8558]

🇦🇲🇦🇲🇦🇲🇦🇲🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸👍👍👍👍

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Կեցցես

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[@Aren001]

❤️🌏👍🇦🇲

[@kimgraves8921]

David you always have that I'm not sure look on your face when you eat.

[@hasmikkhatchatourians6071]

It is gorjes

[@Jvb1982]

Девушка красавица .👍

[@stevek758]

David when are you going to Georgia?

[@marikamarika8064]

20xornothing Georgia was sold to the turks, they are everywhere, specially in Batumi

[@Chupik167]

@@marikamarika8064 so what?

[@karinanalbandyan3009]

Thank you for this wonderful traveling video. My father is Armenian, but mother is Russian. I was born in Russia, raise there until 13 before being brought to America where I’ve been living for the past 26 years. Unfortunately I was not able to absorb any of the Armenian culture or language. I have Armenian last name from my father and Armenian blood running through my veins. Personally, I am not at all interested in learning anything about Christianity in Armenia. Christianity is not a native faith of Armenia, Russia, or any other modern nation that currently has Christianity as a state religion. Armenians like all other indigenous people had their own native pagan spiritual heritage, and Christianity played a role in destruction of this native ethnic pagan faith of all indigenous cultures. Christianity, and other Abrahamic religions are anti-ethnic. But enough about religion, because this video is not focused on religion, but on traveling. I really wish to one day travel to Armenia and explore it myself

[@karinanalbandyan3009]

@@antomano5623 No no no. I don’t believe that Christianity gave anyone alphabet. Not the Slavs, not the Armenians, not anyone. I understand that official sources tells us that it was Christianity that gave alphabet to Slavic people, Armenian people and other people, but it is not true! Our history was written by the victors, and make no mistake about it they wrote history in which ever way it was convenient for them. Their ancestors took down the pagan old world order, and started replacing it with their Abrahamic new world order. This process is still unfolding even today. Even the people who created foundation for materialistic science were Abrahamists. Don’t believe me? Go look up the people who came up with scientific theories like the Big Bang for example. They are all some form of Christmas, many were Jesuits, some were catholic priests. I don’t believe them, I don’t believe their version of history. I don’t believe that Christianity gave anyone anything good. Anything that’s good within Christianity didn’t even originate from Christianity, and comes from pagan cultures and traditions that were incorporated into Christianity. Christianity is slavery, feudal system, toxic hierarchy. Christianity is a horrible worldview in which people believe themselves to be born as guilty infants, and that people are guilty from the time they were conceived in the womb. How messed up is that? According to pagan traditions humans are children of the gods, but according to Christianity humans are slaves or servants of God. Paganism versus Christianity is like freedom versus authority. Authentic paganism was nature-based, nature-made, Christianity and other Abrahamic religions are man-made. christianity brought in the concept of intermediaries//priests/middleman between humans and Christian God. In pagan traditions every human is already born with direct link to the gods, and needs no intermediary to commune with their pagan gods. Pagan gods were mostly gods of this physical world, although they did acknowledge other realms as well: because mostly pagan gods and spirits were of this physical reality, pagan people could communicate and know their gods in the here and now. Christian God is unknowable to humans. God of the Bible is not a God of this world, and so humans cannot know this God or commune with him here and now. Christians have to go to church, talk to priest, or read a holy book in order to experience spirituality/divinity. The pagans experienced spirituality in their everyday normal lives. Pagans experienced divinity doing simple things like raising their children, going out in nature, working their land, even doing housework. To pagan people life itself was a miracle. To them miracle was the resurrection of life in spring, and all indigenous people around the world before the coming of Abrahamic religions believed in reincarnation. Most into European people believed in ancestral reincarnation, the soul is reborn in its same lineage, the same bloodline. This was the belief of pagan Armenians, as well as pagan Slavic people and many others. When Christian monarchs and church came to indigenous people anywhere in the world be at Armenia, Slavic people, indigenous Europeans, Native Americans, Africans, et cetera anywhere that Christianity went they brought in slavery/feudal system, this is the land from the people, they took control of food supply. They had to destroy self-sufficiency by extracting “surplus” through taxes & trade, destroying family ties & community, confiscating all land (land ownership), and introducing a reliigion (Christianity, Islam) that justifies the above...

[@astxikaloyan7640]

The music is not armenian. Why didn't you put Armenian music?

[@user-db3di4fz5w]

,😊👍🇦🇲🤝

[@nishadmajeed4023]

armeniyan food simler to turkey and persiyan

[@arsho4121]

👌👌👌👌🇦🇲🇦🇲🇦🇲

[@bethengelhart9039]

So far I am noticing that Armenian food and culture are not super strong. Seems like a lot of food from different places.

[@shehzadchowdhury8327]

Armenians are white people with middle eastern vibe

[@suren2313]

Shehzad Chowdhury im an A and im ain’t no white

[@shehzadchowdhury8327]

Suren Kalantarian then what are Armenians ?

[@chitrang2441]

Why beef man!😢

[@chitrang2441]

@Uraang Utaan fuck you and ypur Allah ALLAH =🐷🐶🐷🐶🐷🐶🐷🐷ALLAH =🐷🐶🐷🐶🐷🐶🐷🐷 You should try pork , it's tasty

[@Robert_N]

Beef taste really good. You should eat a beef burger. I'm sure you'd love it.

[@menisdim]

Dont know the savoir vivre all you Americans?