Yerevan, Armenia Travel Blogs

Around Yerevan, part I: Creation and Destruction
Feb 6, 2008 (9 photos)

My first taste of Armenia was a marshrutka ride from Tbilisi to Yerevan, from capital to capital, across snowy mountain passes, through deep gorges, and across snowy highlands with small towns, hay piled next to homes to last the long winter. Dropped ...

Armenia Photos
Dec 22, 2004 (30 photos)

Some Armenia photos.

A church and a dungeon
May 13, 2007

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!
May 14, 2007

... Mother Mommy Mumsy Mami Madre etc. :-) Hope your Mother's Day was wonderful. Know that we are thinking of you. from your kids in Armenia

Transitioning back to Western world
Sep 19, 2006 (11 photos)

Since there isn't much scenery to see, I decided to catch an overnight train from Tbilisi, Georgia to Yerevan, the capital of Armenia. It was a very slow train. The journey (including border crossings, when an Armenian visa could be obtained at the ...

Second Day in Armenia
May 11, 2007

... to get back to yerevan, and we are all exhausted yet again. but that's okay because we will sleep well and tomorrow will be the best day of our lives. in the words of our good friend and cameraman, Arthur: Armenia day 2: game over. -Kristen Le

yay day off!!!
May 12, 2007

... building of armenia. it was another intricate stone building 3 stories high. but unfortunately, the large earthquake that devestated armenia left this breath-taking structure in ruins. some of it has been reconstructed and a lot of the carved pillars ...

The Holy Land
May 12, 2007

... 't have a concert until 18.00 or so late night, so during the day, we went out to visit some of the ancient churches in Armenia. The trajet was very bumpy, as usual, as we drove off to remote Armenia to visit thise shrines. On the way, we decided to change ...

Armenia - part 1
Aug 1, 2008

What a journey! Overnight flight from Moscow to Yerevan with zero hours of sleep.

Gyumri, Orphanage, Refugee Camp...
May 15, 2007

... 14, we had another great time of worship in the morning before setting off for the day to Gyumri, the second largest city in Armenia only to Yerevan. The bus ride was once again rather long, but it was a good time of fellowship and naps to catch up on our ...

Where and why Armenia?
Sep 28, 2005 (1 photos)

... open sky; an enormous rolling space and grassy steppe where my mind can escape that overbearing crush of city life. Armenia celebrates a Christian faith dating back to 301AD and in a miracle of faith the country has withstood invasions by the famous ...

Market day
Oct 2, 2005 (1 photos)

... wood while you watch? Soviet medal or kitsch memorabilia? How about a hand embroidered tablecloth? Sunday is Market Day in Yerevan and by that I mean that everything from book to bolt n nut, traditional carpet to tacky Soviet postcard are for sale; ...

Goodbye Yerevan
Oct 3, 2005 (2 photos)

... and phrases, 'best-kept secret' and 'get there before it's discovered' are somewhat over-used in travel circles but Armenia is definitely deserving of this tag. Armenia is far from sophisticated but the warmth, beauty of its Ten Worlds, and lovely ...

First day in Armenia
May 10, 2007

... . then we handed out shoeboxes from the samaritan's purse ministry. Finally, we went to a memorial celebrating when armenia first gained independence. exciting challenge of the day: an unexpected hail storm while enjoying refreshments with our hosts ...

Yerevan
Sep 29, 2005 (6 photos)

... an air of faded grandeur, no longer an international hub but somewhat empty, footsteps echoing off the concrete walls. Yerevan is Armenia's capital, a faded city of 1.2 million inhabitants. During the heydays of the U.S.S.R, of which Armenia was part, ...

Bird Watching, Harvest Festival, and Stuff
Oct 16, 2005

... great! This weekend, a group of us went bird watching over in Ararat Marz. My Dad had sent me a bird book of Armenia. The Environmental Volunteers were impressed with it because it was the hardcover version of their book. We watched the sun rise on ...

Tblisi or Not Tblisi?
Dec 7, 2005

On Friday I am scheduled to fly to the States. On the bus ride into Yerevan this morning, I though to myself "Gee, it's really foggy. Huh, I can't even see across the that park over there" So, I go about my business and eventually met up with two other ...

Armenia
Sep 20, 2008 (59 photos)

... also a hotel called Prague and by the lake there is a Bohemian resort, whatever it is. Back in Yerevan I am surprised how fast one can travel in Armenia (in comparison to Georgia) and so I decide to visit Garni Temple & Geghard Monastery in addition. ...

Off to London
May 16, 2007

Barev! As I am writing this we are all packing up to leave Armenia. It is really hard for us all to think about leaving this place. In some respects it does not feel right that we are going to London in a few hours. We have seen so much, especially ...

Hooka
Nov 15, 2005

... here I am in Yerevan. I have been able to make some phone calls home and one up to the Republic of Georgia. I am in Yerevan for our All-Vol (All Volunteer Conference) Right this moment I am supposed to be at language camp but.. luckily there are a couple ...

Home again Home again jiggity jig
Nov 8, 2005

Last night was my Host-Sister-in-Laws Grandmothers Birthday. We all went over to Anna's Grandmothers house and had dinner, drank homemade vodka (which I had sworn off of for the rest of my life the last time I drank it because I ended up in the bathroom ...

pictures
Sep 27, 2005 (9 photos)

Just some pictures off of the PC computers in Yerevan

Pictures
Oct 28, 2005 (10 photos)

These are some pictures that I got off of Meg's computer. I had wanted to upload a couple of much better (and much more recent) pictures of me but of course, there were technical difficulties with those. :) Take care everyone!! Laura

Started work
Sep 13, 2005 (3 photos)

... cried too because I miss my village people from that training. But, I hear from the UZ-18ers fairly often. I haven't been to Yerevan in nearly a month! You can see Mt. Ararat from Yerevan. It is the mountain that Noah's ark is supposed to have landed ...

tbilisi to yerevan
Dec 5, 2006

... to escape paying for the $20 U.S. for my 3 day armenian transit visa. dunno how that happened. i was a bit fluey in yerevan, so i didn't see much of the city and didn't make the day trip to the nearby ancient greek temple of ebelebeladlabtla (i forget ...

Dojezd v Jerevanu
Aug 16, 2006

V pondeli jsem se vratila z Nahorniho Karabachu zpatky do Jerevanu. Ve ctvrtek brzy rano odjizdim domu, Berit a Kathrina odjizdeji ve stredu a tak nakupujeme, chodime po Jerevanu, spolecne vecerime v Armenskych restauracich a i jinak utracime posledni ...

Yerevan is vereh nice! HIGH FIVE!
Jul 14, 2007 (22 photos)

John and Anita next say good bye to the beaches of the Mediterranean, and head towards Anita's spiritual homeland of Armenia.  After mostly sleeping through a relatively comfortable overnight ferry from Santorini to Athens, our duo make their way to ...

The static traveller
May 1, 2009

... were good fun- especially trying to guess when to get of the bus and then hitching bindly back to Yerevan. Culturaly Armenia clings to their unique position as the first country to adopt Christianity resulting in a good ...

Prvni den v Yerevanu
Jul 15, 2006 (5 photos)

... zradlo a zmrznou", ale jsou skutecne pohostinni, radi poradi, pomohou. Tak snad to tak bude. A vzhledove je Yerevan tvoren ostruvky hezkych staveb a treba i parku a ostruvky opustenych budov, zakouti kam od rozpadu sovetskeho svazu nevkrocila lidska noha ...

Yerevan, a stylish city in the backwater
Aug 10, 2009 (5 photos)

We spent a whole day yesterday to travel from Telavi to Tbilisi by minibus and then to Yerevan, capital of Armenia, by an overnight train. The distance wasn't that large, but the waits at the border were long and the train slow. The trains in Ukraine, ...