Country Info
- Yerevan
- Capital
- Armenian Dram (AMD)
- Currency
- 3,336,100
- Population
- AM
- Country Code
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Armenia
Travel Blogs from Armenia
Goodbye Yerevan
... The terms 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 ...
Armenia
Well we are here and its hot and its amazing. We got here a few days ago now and its a very European city that is being developed rapidly. The centre has pretty much been flattened to make way for new high rise buildings with trendy shops ...
First day in Armenia
... . 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
... 1995. The collapse of the USSR was disastrous for Armenia, which now limps along economically. The fearsome statue of Mother Armenia stands on a hilltop overlooking Yerevan. She replaced the statue of Stalin after the collapse of the Soviet Union. ...
Zona Cafeteria y Medellin
After a couple of stress filled days in Bogota we headed to the coffee zone and a wee town called Solento. It was so so nice- a tiny town up in the mountains with rainforest and rolling green hills around. While there we took an excusion to the ...
My photos on Flickr
... click here http://www.flickr.com/photos/53731293@N05/ So far I've managed to upload Maggie's weding and Krakow. Lithuania, Latvia an Armenia are still to go on but the uploading takes ages here so don't hold your breath. Finally, a big THANKS to all ...
La Zona Cafetera
What is Colombia famous for? Right, the coffee. So no trip to Colombia without a visit to the coffee zone with its capital Salento. Everything here you can imagine is made of coffee: biscuits, necklaces, soap... On Saturday everybody joins on ...
A hard days work to Armenia
... Vince there were a few others also waiting and once we arrived there we all travelled in a group all the way to Armenia. As I said above, the road toAlmera is mainly motorway but this motorway is extremely dangerous with mad HGV drivers hammering their ...
Gerhard
Gerhard is simply breath-taking. Rounding another corner, our driver Artur stops our van and we clamber out to look at the valley view. It takes a moment to spy the spy the grey stone monastery with conical roofing on the turrets. It's well ...
La Fonda
... lesson learned from the previous evening's crunch chicken buffet. Motivated by hunger...we make a night drive to the hills sourrounding Armenia in search of the locally recommended La Fonda Bistro. As is now custom, we abide by the directions to the ...
My host mother and my birthday!!
... a good thing because people around me could see me. Not my family though. I swam in the water. Everyone was impressed! The women in Armenia generally don't know how to swim. I love to swim and was on a swim team for several years. So, I was a better ...
Bird Watching, Harvest Festival, and Stuff
... 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?
... with my flight because the airport has been closed for the last two days and I might be flying out of Gymori in the northern part of Armenia or else out of Tblisi Georgia. Well, good thing I came in a day early to Yerevan! And geez, what a dope that i ...
Day 15 - Sokt Pass, Old Monasteries & Boat Hotels
Today was rough roads and slow-going, but a very pretty 241 km from the lake to Vank (somewhere in or near the Republic of Karabach...a newish wanna-be country that split from Azerbaijan about 20 years ago). The landscape through the Sokt ...
About to become a volunteer again
I am getting ready to move again. I had all my village people over to my house on Tuesday and we cooked pizza and soup for my Amma my host mother. Then, in proper Armenian fashion, we made toasts to each other. I had told Amma the day before that I ...
Culture and Art in Nakhchivan
... dated July 26, 2000. The Museum collected, stored and exhibited materials related to Great Patria War, genocide, Azerbaijan - Armenia relationships, victims and more than 1020 material-cultural samples. From the part of the Museum during years there were ...
Armenia
... . There are tourists, a thing unseen in Georgia. It is also very very very nice and I just keep admiring. Btw, in Armenia I got accidentally obsessed by wooden doors having really original ornaments. There is also an extra bell tower worth seeing. At the ...
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 ...
Khor Virap at the foot of Mt Ararat
... prayer and ritual. Not one to shrug off his own miraculous recovery, Kind Tiridates immediately declared Christianity to be Armenia's state religion and decreed (in his persuasive, 'do-or-die' manner) that his people reverently follow example. King ...
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 ...
Stylish Soviet digs in Sisian
Tonight my hopes of a quirky hotel were met again - musical plumbing and a shot of local cognac to ward off the permeating cold and damp. We arrive in the driving rain at a metal gate, that opens after a few shouts from Artur. Our hotel is fantastic, ...
Off to London
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
So, 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 ...
La Zona Cafetera
... "Parque del Cafe" um ein wenig mehr ueber die so leckere Kaffeebohne zu lernen und Kaffee zu trinken fuert mich nach Armenia, bevor es dann zur letzten station am montag in die haupstadt nach bogota geht! kaffeeplantagen gibt es hier fast ...
wax palms and the coffee district
we spent the last two nights in salento at a hostal run by an englishman and his colombian wife. weŽd heard lots of good reports about the place from other travellers, and it lived up to the hype. the rooms were basic, but we got to use the kitchen ...
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 ...
Home again Home again jiggity jig
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 ...
On to Colombia....
... had we known that was the cost, we would have gone straight to Bogota and spent more time there. Well, regardless of that, Armenia was a nice place. We visited the Parque de Cafe which was like the Disneyland for coffee. It was really interesting to see ...