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- Yerevan
- Capital
- Armenian Dram (AMD)
- Currency
- 3,336,100
- Population
- AM
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Travel Blogs from Armenia
Zona Cafeteria means damn good coffee
By this time, and after a few good nights out in Cali (plus a few crap ones), Ed and I had split from Clare as she had to go to Canada (as you do), but picked up an isreali guy who id originally met looking after my howler monkey in Bolivia. We ...
Armenians
... finished here. We were off the road about 4 o'clock and settled into a small family run hotel at the edge of Armenia. Gillie enjoyed meeting the owners miniature Pincher. Armenia is the bottom end of the coffee growing area. It was very interesting to ...
Pictures
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!! ...
Zona Cafetera
I finally left Popyan to head northwards to the famed rolling mountainsides of Colombia's world famous coffee zone. I decided to start by getting my coffee bean education at the parque nacional de cafe. A living museum cum amusement park that was a ...
Started work
... You can see Mt. Ararat from Yerevan. It is the mountain that Noah's ark is supposed to have landed on. Mt. Ararat had been a part of Armenia at one point and is now a part of Turkey. I love seeing that mountion. It is huge and snow capped. So, I now ...
tbilisi to yerevan
tbilisi to yerevan is a nice enough bus ride. i was even lucky enough 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 ...
Cracked out on Coffee
... we had to get off the bus to go up to the main tourist town of salento. No matter its only 40 minutes on a bus from Armenia and we check into a nice hotel with telly for 30, 000 so all is good in our world. We take the bus up to Salento the ...
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 ...
18. maí og rólegur dagur í Yerevan
18 mai og rolegur dagur i YerevanI dag attum vid rolegan dag i Yerevan og skodudum engar kirkjur eda klaustur. Tho er ekki thar med sagt ad vid skodudum ekekrt tvi vid byrjudum daginn a ad fara a handritasafn theirra armena sem ...
19. maí: Klausturferðir og Ararat
19. mai: Klausturferdir og AraratVedurstofa Armeniu spadi solskini og 23-27 stiga hita i Yerevan i dag og thrumuvedri i kvold. Hitastigid og solskinid gekk eftir en thrumuvedrid ekki. Annars eyddum vid deginum i rutuferd, ...
Salento
We took a very cold overnight bus from Bogota arriving in a very wet Armenia at about 6am. Another bus took us to Salento in the Zona Cafetera and we got ourselves a room in La Palmera after checking out LPs favourite, The Plantation House, and ...
Dojezd v Jerevanu
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 ...
Divadlo ve Spitaku
Jsme zpatky ve Spitaku a zaciname posledni tyden naseho snazeni. Posledni tyden je ve znameni (cti zmateni) priprav na zaverecne divadelni predstaveni. Jsme rozdeleni +- podle zemi ze kterych pochazime a delame scenky s narodni tematikou. Resp. my jsme ...
Prvni dny ve Spitaku
Od pondelka jsme ve Spitaku - respektive ve vesnici kousicek za Spitakem, ktera byla take znicena zemetresenim v roce 88. Bydlime ve skole a az na to ze voda tece v zavislosti na postaveni Marsu a Pluta a zachody smrdi na sto honu, si neni na co ...
An Amusement Park Dedicated to the Coffee Bean
... del Cafe (highly recommended), 3 rides, and the Teleferico (skyride), which offers stunning views of the plantations. - Minibuses from Armenia leave from outside the bus terminal (1200 pesos, 30 minutes) and run continuously back from the Parque, passing ...
My Birthday
... so he did and he brought it back. A request had been made from Jesse (who was medavaced to the US and will be returning to Armenia in two weeks) if the wolf could be named after him. OH! And we made fried rice at Jennifer's house and again, I got ...
Lazo plazo vikend
V patek jsme skoncovali s detmi a v sobotu rano odjela jedna skupina lidi na par dni do Gruzie. Puvodne jsem byla v "zakladajici skupine" take, ale pote co se pridala vetsina lidi jsem rekla, ze zustanu v Armenii. Popravde jsem chtela do Gruzie hlavne ...
Svobodna Evropa
Vcera se me Eric zeptal, jestli bych zitra nemela cas, ze by se mnou chtel udelat interview. Domnivala jsem se, ze se pta jestli nechci jit na kafe si pokecat - jeho dobrovolnici uz odjeli, tak ma ted cas. Inu proc ne, nemam zadne plany, tak jsem ...
Only UZ-18 in Armenia
This is tough!! I nearly ET (early terminated) today. Little did I know that my fellow former UZ-18 volunteer here in Armenia, HAD ET'd!! Luckily I was able to have a pizza with him, a beer and some cognac before he headed back to Yerevan and then he ...
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 ...
Day 17 - Final Challenge Day & Party!
... from Team Poland (their eternally-having-a-problem car finally gave out last night), and will be stopping by a cliffside monastery, Armenia's "stone henge", Mt. Ararat, and past the finish line in Yerevan! Nearing Goris, we turn off the road and ...
My Second PST DONE
... me. It was quite a popular cd with our training group called Hits of Asia Two. Well, I listen to it whenever I travel around Armenia. The funny thing is that because the roads are rather bumpy, the marshutney seems to bounce us in time to the beat of ...
Till the cows come home
You know the expression: Till the cows come home? Well, when I came here, I heard that the cows are just let out into the street and left to wander in the streets and hills and mountains. And then I was told that the cows would walk themselves home. I ...
4th of July and Site Announcement
... resources, oh! and I will be helping to organize seminars and other lectures!! Craziness. There is only one other volunteer in Armenia who is working at a nursing college. It is a posh position. There are also 5 other volunteers in the city. And I ...
Sigh! Communication issues!!
Hello Everyone! Well, There are some serious internet communication issues. I can not get to my yahoo account! Sigh! Something about this country and Yahoo. I was able to sign in today but I can't actually get to my emails. This is frustrating. ...
Behind Enermy Lines
... the heart of coffee country to sample some of Colombia´s finest and soak up the atmosphere of the region where it is grown. Armenia itself was a pretty crappy town, though Shawn and I were able to amuse ourselves by making it a mission to sample all the ...
Coffee Country
Armenia is a nice little city in the Middle of the area where they grow a lot of the coffee in Colombia. I stayed here for one ...
Maybe I can keep doing this
Well, after crying a bit, talking with other trainees a bit, and simply not going to class today OH and calling my parents, I think I have decided to stay a little longer. What an awful time this has been. I wonder if it is because of missing the UZ-18 ...