Country Info
- Yerevan
- Capital
- Armenian Dram (AMD)
- Currency
- 3,336,100
- Population
- AM
- Country Code
Armenia Slideshow
Travel Blogs from Armenia
In the coffee zone.
This is a top pick! We have traveled a few hours further south in bus along the beautiful road between Medellin and Pereira. Pereira is Johana's hometown and a lot of her family still lives here, so we will lodge at her sister's place and use the city as a base for ...
Around Yerevan, part I: Creation and Destruction
This is a top pick! ... in-all I would stay in Armenia eight days, and would acquaint myself with the Armenian definition of Jesus, khatchkars, Armenia's presidential election, the Celtic connection, an Iraqi refugee, a music video and the modern Armenia, historical genocide, ...
Tenth Century Monasteries of Debed Canyon
This is a top pick! ... across, then continuing to walk through farmland and villages until finally getting a ride with a friendly truck driver who was also heading to Tbilisi, an hour away, leaving Armenia, its history, its khatchkars, its old monasteries, and its people ...
White
This is a top pick! Sevan was a quick bus trip from Yerevan, a small industrial town now a summer resort, where people from Yerevan go to enjoy the cooler mountain air and blue waters of Lake Sevan, at over 6,000 feet. This time of year, I could only see the closed ...
Bakuriani - THE MOUNTAINS
This is a top pick! After a while of hanging in Tbilisi, everybody got bored of the town and we wanted to explore the outer world. Erik wanted to show me the mountains. Since Baidi had left, somehow I fell into a kind of depression. More accurately: I had been depressed the ...
Armenia, Cali, Popayan, Silvia, Pasto, Ipiales
This is a top pick! ... to a hotel in the centre. There's nothing really to see in Amermia. In fact, the only sightseeing that seems to take place in Armenia's town centre, is the locals staring at you, with a kind of air of curiosity. However, just a 30 minute bus ride outside ...
Around Yerevan, part II: Khatchkars and Chats
This is a top pick! ... to one day return to his family's home (he is allowed to go to Turkey--but not Azerbaijan--though the borders between Turkey and Armenia are tightly sealed). On another day, a friendly man was fixing the lock of the apartment. We talked; he was from ...
Santuario de Flora y Fauna Otún-Quimbaya.
This is a top pick! Pereira, La Suiza, Santuario de Flora y Fauna Otún-Quimbaya and Parque Regional Natural ...
Adventures in the Coffee Region
This is a top pick! ... about in Spanish and English! This is one of the most beautiful areas of Colombia and it would be easy to spend more time here but I managed to drag myself away today and headed off to look around the nearby town of Armenia before I head South to ...
Cali cartel and the bargaining gringos of Buga
This is a top pick! ... a daylight view of surpisingly pleasant looking Buga, we set out for coffee country proper, arriving in...surprisingly unpleasant looking Armenia. Oh well, the people are still really nice, and the surrounding countryside is unbelievably gorgeous. We´re ...
Around Yerevan, part III: Elections, Monastery
This is a top pick! ... of them are also located in fittingly remote or hard-to-reach places, which is another reason why the highlands of Armenia have probably remained Christian, while surrounded by Muslims. On one poke-around, I visited Garni Temple and Gegard Monastery, ...
This is a top pick! 
Welcome, Christmas!
This is a top pick! It´s officially the Christmas season in Colombia! On our last night in Medellin, we learned that there was going to be an event in one of the main squares downtown, in the late afternoon and early evening. John and I headed down, expecting ...
Highland Adventures
This is a top pick! When we arrived in Salento Tuesday, John and I were headed to the main hostel in town when a woman came to ask if we were looking for accomodation. This has happened several times to us before, and we typically end up in a much more economical ...
Noravank
... so far. It's a beautiful day and our imaginations have been fired up by Khor Virap and we're ready for more of Armenia. This country suddenly seems very romantic in the way that only places with invasions and turmoil can be! Roadside stalls are ...
St Hripsime Church
On our way to St Hripsme Church, we stop at the ruins of Zvartnots. Only a few columns remain standing after earthquakes, but Naira brings the place to life for us. She describes how this was an amazing building, a change in architectural style and ...
A church and a dungeon
Today was another great day in Armenia. Since it was Sunday, we went to Levon's church here in Yerevan. The church's handbell choir performed the piece they played for us last night, and did wonderfully. We also helped out with the Sunday school classes. ...
Happy Mother's Day!
... Mother Mommy Mumsy Mami Madre etc. :-) Hope your Mother's Day was wonderful. Know that we are thinking of you. from your kids in ...
A tour of East and North Armenia
... you come out at the top of a huge precipice where the monks went to get their water from a waterfall. Karahundj. Described as Armenia's Stonehenge this dates back to about 5000 BC and has many stones a lot of which have small holes in which seem to ...
Oh my God!, have I ever been to a crazier place?!
Ok, so its festival season here in Colombia, well basically its festival season all year here so thats no difference, but this for me was a little different. So I last left you with thoughts of Medellin where, after writing, I met up with a fellow ...
The lonesome monastery of Tatev
While Artur stops to take another cigarette, we wander to the lookout to take in the view of the gorge and Tatev monastery in the distance. The gorge is spectacular - hundreds of metres deep and the grey mist rolling in along its depths adds to the ...
Goodbye to Team Detox
... by these people we´ve spent (what feels like) so much time with. Me and Matty jump in our bus to the nearby city of Armenia. Its a strange feeling - that one part of travelling is finished but also that we are starting anew again. We get to the bus ...
Transitioning back to Western world
... of the Armenian Genocide. It baldly tells the story of the genocide by the Ottoman Empire and the Turkish republic forces. Armenia has a very bad relationship with its neighbors in the east and west, Azerbaijan and Turkey, respectively. Its only ...
We finish off time in Armenia
... trips out which I'll briefly describe first. Garni and Geghard Monastery/Church. Garni is the last remaining Pagan site in Armenia and is a reconstruction using original stones when they could. Again, the setting is amazing: surrounded by hills and ...
The Genocide Memorial and Museum
... blind eye towards it. And still this is not a story that is widely known. Later we had a 3 day tour around parts of Armenia which I'll describe in a later blog but our driver was saddened that our children are not taught this but he did say that ...
