Best Eastern Armenia 1 Hotel Yerevan

... 782b.c. by king Argishti the Second. Every September – October we celebrate the birthday of our city – at the moment it is 2790 years old.

However it’s impossible to say it looks ancient. New modern buildings, business centers, offices, cafes, restaurants and at the same time – tiny beautiful streets with full of trees, parks, small houses, churches built in the medieval ...

... from the correct terminal in Tbilisi, where I should have gone in the first place, but it's out on the outskirts of town and I don't want to get all strung out there dealing with a corrupt taxi driver. The taxi drivers at the border all look like Uncle Leo from Seinfeld, all of them, so that gives me some comic relief, but finally at least I've got a seat on a bus and I'm headed to Erevan. The countryside gets more dramatic in Armenia ...

... 20US, a very cheap form of seeing so much. Back to Yerevan for an Armenian Pizza, huge pizza base thing with poached eggs, delicious, and we also had a normal pizza as well, taxi back here to The Family, we are having fish for tea Tomorrow is another trip, and we have booked to go to the Brandy Factory as well. Thursday our last day, and we will be sad, Marion more so of course, as her family have so loved her being ...

... previously been on them (my washing had resulted in everything below the knee having a brown tinge...). So for 8 dollars, I have 4.5 kilograms worth of clean clothes...worthy splurge. Yesterday I went to the Armenian Genocide museum, the Armenian state museum, and the Erebuni history museum and archaeological site. The genocide museum cheered me right up- I don't think I could have had a better day even if there had been a holocaust museum next door. The ...

... where a service was just going on, even TV-broadcast. Chanting priests are accompanied by a choir - btw, each Eastern Orthodox priest must be able to sing well. But otherwise the church is uniteresting. I take a marshrutka to near Opera House where I find very recommendable Envoy Hostel (6400AMD w/internet&breakfast). Since I have incredible amount of time, I take the advice of the Slovenians and visit Lake Sevan. In less than one hour a marshrutka to Sevan (actually it was heading ...

... small white tuft of flakes graced the center of the gavit, where all the flakes had fell in the calm air. For a while, I walked around and lit candles. I took a marshrutka from Alaverdi to the Georgian border, walking 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 behind.

... she said. I thanked her half-heartedly since I never use them, crawled on top and went to sleep. The next morning we woke up early and went about getting our stuff packed back up. We had the phone number of our contact in Yeravan. Gohar would have a place for us to stay and knew the city since she had grown up there. She had spent time in the US and she spoke perfect English so we were all excited to meet her. As Zsofi folded the tent, underneath where ...

... mörgum sinnum stærri en íslenskip flóamarkaðurinn og þarna er selt handverk í margra kílómetra löngum röðum. Ég rölti umm, kaupi sitt lítið af hverju. Velti því alvarlega fyrir mér að kaupa belti út tré, meira að segja sylgjan á því er úr tré og ég þyrfti ekki að vera að rífa af mér beltið þegar ég fer í gegnum öryggishliðin á flugvöllunum ef ég væri með þetta, hugsa ég með mér. Sleppi því nú samt og læt líka tannlækningatækin og skammbyssuhlustrin eiga sig, dúkur ...

... 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 some of our American (and British for Todd; he needs to be different) money so we have some spare change when we travel. Anyhow, on the way, we got an exceptional view of Mt. Ararat. The countryside is so beautiful here; we were enjoying God's creation in a whole new different ...

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 entered the streets of sleeping Stepanakert. Walking on the main road and suddenly I hear a weird noise and I see something running across the street. Looks and sounds like a herd of cows.) When I ...