Country Info
- Yerevan
- Capital
- Armenian Dram (AMD)
- Currency
- 3,336,100
- Population
- AM
- Country Code
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Armenia
Travel Blogs from Armenia
Garni
Think about everything in advance!
We will be driving through all those towns, and we have too little time and much to do. So I’ve already started gathering information. Yesterday I heard that the tickets to church Santa Maria della Grazie in Milan (where is located Leonardo da ...
'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 ...
Never miss the water til the well runs dry.
... so there was a feeling of motion sickness which doesnt sit well with ´bus station food´. In the end, no problems, though The Armenia bus station was fine, not a huge modern facility but not the side of the road either. Open air asados (grilled meat) ...
New Town
... ; The State Museum was a little bit more cheerful. Happy beautiful carpets and handicrafts, stone crosses (Armenia was the first country whose government accept Christianity for the country, even before Rome), and an exorbitant number of ...
Earthquake City
PHOTOS TO FOLLOW LATER Those of you my age and older may remember the news of the Armenian earthquake in 1988, it was the first time I'd heard of the place. Gyumri wasn't far away from the epicentre. I decided to take the slow train ride there from ...
Back to Armenia
... is Mother Armenia Museum, which is an interesting (and free) collection about the rather recent war between Armenia and Azerbaijan over Nagorno-Karabakh region. Lots of Armenian heroes and their belongings. You know how those museums always ...
Armenia
We are flying back from 4 days in the Zona Cafetera, where a good portion of the county's coffee comes from. Colombia makes a high quality coffee in the highlands that is hand picked when ripe, unlike Brazil's which grows on tall bushes and is machine ...
Armenia's own Vatican
... was really neat, colourful and in very good condition, making it actually less atmospheric than the other monasteries or churches in Armenia. I didn't get the same vibes. But from a purely aestetic point of view, of course it ...
Mughni
Cultural daytrip from Yerevan
... was different to the other places we visited, as it is a roman-styled pagan temple, not related to christdom. After Armenia became Christian, Garni stopped being a temple and instead served as a summer residence for the royal family. It was a ...
A bit of international relations
... can be seen in this picture, many did). Garni is an ancient pagan temple, that quite miraculously survived in Christian Armenia. There is a story behind that that can easily be found on internet so I won’t dwell on this. The loudspeakers on ...
Tour Operator: Help Guide for Travelers
... best assistance for your travel needs. Ask about your selected travel company and read online reviews SacVoyage tour operator in Armenia will arrange everything that you require for your stay here. Armenian land is an ancient and rocky mountainous place. ...
Yerevan
... the help of half a sleeping pill each. Julian arrived, and you can imagine the excitement, we boarded for Armenia, in the cockpit -wowwwwwwwwwwww!!, words fail me, it was unreal, views spectacular, flying over ...
The end
Yesterday I said goodbye to everyone, thinking I ll be getting up too early to see them in the morning. When I got up however Anna was already up too and she was preparing breakfast. I ate a bit, packed my bag, included a little sandwich from Anna and ...
Churches and mysticism
... , Germany and Russia. Also the diaspora Armenians come a lot (there are approximately 3 million Armenians living in Armenia, with 8 million diaspora Armenians elsewhere). Diaspora Armenians feel some affinity with the „ motherland”. For ...
More monasteries and churches, but the places
... with snow capped peaks by the dozen. Khor Virap monastery, famous because Gregory the Illuminator - who brought Christianity to Armenia, was imprisoned In a dungeon on the site for 13 years before healing the Kings son which persuaded the king that ...
First jetlaged glimpse of Armenia
... unwillingly drawn into geopolitical games on a micro-level I talked a bit also with that Russian – on Armenia, Russian mentality, something about the building projects of former Moscow mayor Luzhkov etc. The rest I do not ...
Yerevan
... nbsp; a guide etc, hard to believe that these huge sites were built in 301 the beginning of Christianity in Armenia. Yesterday was a National Holiday to mark the Genocide, similar to our Anzac Day, Marion and I strolled the ...
Kazbegi - Hagpath
Langer Tag im Truck. Wir müssen den kompletten Weg über die Buckelpiste „Military Highway" zurück bis Tiblisi (das wir auf dem Weg nach Aserbaidschan besuchen werden) und dann weiter zur armenischen Grenze, wo wir für 3000 AMD (Armenische ...
Debed Canyon - Eriwan
Frühstück mit Stirnlampe, da wir früh in Richtung Eriwan, der Hauptstadt Armeniens, loswollen. Im Gegensatz zu dem meisten habe ich, trotz des permanenten LKW Verkehrs auf der Straße, gut geschlafen. Kaum das wir aus dem Canyon raus sind, sehen wir ...
Khor Virap
The people of Ararat
... ;s getting only from me (for my 1 week stay) the amount of money that is quite close to the average monthly wage here in Armenia. Without the added benefits of staying in a hostel (Wi-Fi; lockers for luggage; towels; good lighting; good showers etc.). And ...
Colombian Coffee plantations
After a long weekend of partying in Medellin, Jen and I were stoked to get to Salento, a small pueblo in the coffee region between Medellin and Cali. The drive there was really beautiful, and we arrived at "The Plantation house" hostel in the early ...
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 ...
Prejezd dalsich hranic
Patek se nesl ve znameni prechodu iransko-armenskych hranic, takze jsme byli skoro cely den bud na cestach nebo ty cesty hledali. Inu. Z postele jsme se vykopali kolem desate hodiny, nadlabli se sladkym pecivem a vyrazili k severnimu ...
