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Sevan
Travel Blogs from Sevan, Armenia
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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! ... snow, with over a foot of old snow elsewhere. Walking back to the roadside motel before dusk, I had dinner there: fried Lake Sevan trout and potatoes with bread. In the morning, I walked four miles to the bus stop. In a snowstorm, a marshrutka ...
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, ...
Gheghama mountains
After being back to Yerevan for 2 nights, we decide to go trekking in the Gheghama mountains. We would like to reach the lake akna at more than 3000m. We are aware that there is still a lot of snow but we wanna check it up ourselves. To get there we need ...
Field of Crosses
From the Steppe we travel down to the marginally less lofty heights of Lake Sevan, the highest alpine lake in the world. It's one of those facts which may one day win me 'Who Wants to Be a Millionaire' but for now is beautiful to behold. We divert ...
Lake Sevan
Lake Sevan is the largest alpine high mountain freshwater lake in the Caucasus region and in Armenia Highland. This countryside reminds me of Scotland with its rolling hills and colours. We stop beside the road and Artur finds red berries for us ...
Telephones
... . Bush is not well liked here. Elada (my neighbor) even spit on the floor after she said his name. The president of Armenia came to dilijan to celebrate opening up a fountain in the town square. rumor has it that the president of the republic of ...
The Caravansarai
We drive through the Yeghegis Valley, a rumpled eiderdown of a landscape. The air is distinctly cold, the landscape only changing colour under a kind shaft of sun and clouds roll out across the wide sky, This is the Steppe: beauty that is harsh on ...
Day 14 - Misty Mountains & Lakeside Camping
Today we returned back to Armenia...350 km over the border; past the sleepy town of Ijevan; over the mountains to Lake Sevan. I got the feeling that this would have been a very scenic drive, but clouds and mist covered the mountains giving us only ...
Carahunge - Armenia's Stonehenge
... here. These two men embody the past, fulfilling a role that has been required for centuries. Wolves and bears still roam Armenia's forests. We wander around the stones, wondering what the pagans would have thought of the site now ... and what they'd ...
September 1
... the UZ-18ers boarded a plane and left Uzbekistan. It has been three months! That's just crazy! 3) Today was my first day of work in Armenia. Well, if you can call today a work day since I was only there a couple of hours. I got there and talked to my ...
my new home.... again
I am home, again. i mean i am at my new home. it feels like a home. i have a bed, a place to put my clothes, a huge window, my own toilet room, and Guyina and Anna made me my own blanket for my bed. This is much better than my Bukharan family. Anna ...
Vikend u jezera Sevan
Je tu vikend a tak jako jsme byli minuly tyden na vylete, jedeme na vylet i tentokrat. Jedeme se valet k jezeru Sevan aneb perle Armenie. Obrovske jezero napajene z asi 28 rek, meni barvu petkrat za den, proste idylka. Ovsem kdyz jsme se nasim oblibenym ...
Nahorní Karabach, den druhý
Umysl byt v osm na nadrazi zustal skutecne jen umyslem. Vstala jsem s pul desate, hrala si na verande s detmi a pak s Annou a Narine posnidala. Vladik jel se starsi dcerou do JErevanu do nemocnice. Anna zavolala na nadrazi - autobus jede v 15:30 a v ...
Nahorni Karabach, den treti
Vstavat v 6 rano na autobus nebylo hezke, zvlast kdyz se mi v posteli tak dobre spalo. Cast cesty do Stepanakertu jsem prospala a protoze nakonec jedu se Svetlanou do Mirtuni, prospala jsem i kus cesty tam. V Martuni jsme sly nejdriv k Svetlane domu ...
Sevan, a city you cannot leave
... and it looks like a petit Temple of Athena in Athens's Acropolis. After that we went north to Lake Sevan. Sevan is the name of the largest lake of Armenia and also a name of a city on its northern shore. Besides its beaches and summer activities, it ...
Jun 02, 2011
Aug 31, 2010
'Schweiz von Armenien'
Ich habe gerade gemerkt, dass ich an diesem Computer wieder mal die Fotos nicht hochladen kann, sie folgen spaeter... Den Titel der 'Schweiz von Armenien' hat sich Dilijan selber gegeben. Tatsaechlich erinnert die Landschaft an die Schweiz. Trotzdem bin ...
Cultural daytrip from Yerevan
... party. Noratus was very interesting place, as was every single historical site I visited in Armenia. On the way back from Noratus to Sevan we visited Hayravank monastery on the shores of lake Sevan. Hayravan also dates back to 9th ...
Silk Road Sojourn
... most remote and alpine reservoir site before the snows of January close us out completely. The first map herein shows little Armenia, surrounded by large, powerful, sometimes hostile, and hungry neighbors. We drove from Yerevan, the capital, to Meghri, on ...
Where's the Armenian gingerbread??
... mountain town just North of Lake Sevan. Bustling? Seriously? We have found that the Lonely Planet correspondent for Armenia is sometimes somewhat.. overenthousiastic. The guy described the dreary post-industrial soviet town of Vanadzor as 'bustling', and ...
Cooling off, or rather, freezing off
... our small trailer-hut-camper-thing was perfectly adequate, though a bit too big (two double bed) and thus expensive for our taste. Lake Sevan was recently raised by two meters, which I guess is the reason why all 'beaches' are so tiny (about a meter ...
Trips around Armenia
... held up by herdsmen with sheep and cows on the road. The main attraction near Goris is Tatev monastery. Tourism in Armenia is mainly about monasteries, their religion being incredibly important to the people and it was the first ever Christian nation. ...
Goshavank
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