Kapan on way to Alvank | Checkpoint
Armenia
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- 9 days ago
- GPS:
- 39.20040, 46.42437
- Altitude:
- 758.2 masl
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After just passing the 'new' road along border Armenia-Azerbaidjan is a Russian military check point. They made us turning around at that post as another military post further down in the South, approx 20km North of Alvank.
We were on motorbikes; obviously cars can go through, but not sure. Apparently currently instable area all that stretch of Kapran-Megri Motorway.
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I drove the road M17 from Kapan to the Aras river. There is a new road avoiding the critical part of M17 that crosses the border to Azerbaidschan right out of Kapan. There were military posts, but none that controlled the traffic on the road.
But when we reached the Aras river, we found a checkpoint presumable by the border police. They asked for passports and a border permit. We had no such permit, so we drove back. This was only 13 km out of Meghri. So we had no issue with the border to Azerbaidschan, but the one to Iran.
The road is good, several passes, low traffic, so it was worth the effort anyways
After just passing the 'new' road along border Armenia-Azerbaidjan is a Russian military check point. They made us turning around at that post as another military post further down in the South, approx 20km North of Alvank.
We were on motorbikes; obviously cars can go through, but not sure. Apparently currently instable area all that stretch of Kapran-Megri Motorway.