Best Western Bohemian Resort Yerevan

... 8211; all this together makes a wonderful colour, a union of old and new. <br><br> <br><br> Armenia has a lot of descriptions and &#8220;nicknames&#8221;.<br><br> Some people call it a &#8220;Holy Land&#8221; as the saint mountain Ararat where Noah's ark landed, is situated here, and as Bible says Noah and his family settled here, on Armenian land.<br><br> Armenia is considered as one of the world's ...

... some sort of kofta kebab place with big-ass burgers on a stick, but I just go for coffee. It's good. I smile. I hand the lady a bill in payment. She walks off to break it, thinks better of it, then comes back to me waving her hand. There's no charge; it's on the house. Now that's what I call hospitality. I think maybe I like Armenia. But be careful when a Georgian or Armenian Christian begins to make the sign of the cross, though; you ...

... and I am the honorary Aunt:) It has been a truly wonderful day, Mt Ararat hidden in the mist, but Julian said when he flew out to Syria last night it was magnificent. This is all from me Love to all Liz, PS from Marion I am loving all the places we are going and it is so special for me to be here seeing the little ones and spending time with Julian and Junko. They have saved up going to see a number of places ...

... in the ground to explore. Though I feel my blue jeans are not sharing my enthusiasm for dirt and crawling around... To get to Sanahin Monastary, it's a 15 cent trip up a cable car that the copper mine operates to the top of a local mountain, and then it's a small stroll through a village. Haghpat, however, requires a marshrutka or taxi. Usually marshrutkas run almost every hour, but what I didn't discover until already in Alaverdi is that not as many ...

... closed borders and no trade with each other. The pictures in the museum were horrifying- many of the men were killed right off, while women and children were left to starve in the Syrian desert if they also weren't killed right after being moved from the Turkish towns. One of the main historical Armenian towns, Ani, is in modern-day Turkey. This wasn't simply a Muslim-Christian war- there was actually even a letter from Mecca asking the Turks to stop the genocide ...

... Dilijan) takes the highway and leaves me at the Sevan peninsula. Lake Sevan lies in 1900m above see level and is the biggest "seaside resort" in Armenia (since they can't go to Turkey, eh), but now at the end of September all of the facilities are completely deserted. In 15 minutes I'm standing next to touristy black-stone Sevanavank Monastery situated on the top of the peninsula. The monastery is not so special but together with the location it's picturesque: blue water and dark brown ...

... of Armenia. Later, Stalin gave Churchill Armenian brandy made from the highland grapes, seen as a contender to French cognac. So much so, Pernod Ricard bought the Yerevan Brandy Factory and all its Ararat brandy from the newly-democratized Armenian government. A couple hours later, I was settled into the apartment-cum-homestay of Anahit Stepanyan, right near the Opera House in the center of Yerevan, and ate a late-night dinner of at the Caucasus Restaurant ...

... Lenin but upon Armenia's independence, the statue was pulled down. Riding buses around proved to be interesting as the power lines overhead created interference which sounded like a huge mosquito! The Armenian alphabet, which was created in 405 AD, is very interesting and will be fun to decipher! There are many unfinished buildings as well as abandonned buildings from the Soviet era. There is an ...

... foru svo ad tinast i hendurnar a okkur med thessum lika fina stimplinum fengum vid sogu af vegabrefsaritunum i thessu litla landi sem telur trjar miljonir og thrjuhundrud tusund ibua. Sagan var eitthvad a thessa leid: Vegabrefin afhent gegnum lugu a skur sem er reyndar mun betur utlitandi en Georgiuskurinn, thar tekur vid theim madur sem fer raekilega i gegnum allar upplysingar a eydubladinu v. aritunarinnar og fer sidan raekilega i gegnum ...

... did stop for petrol every hour and filled up. This time, it seemed like a lot of us were getting used to the bumpy road and flying in the air every time we go over a depression in pavement. On the way, Heidi and Michelle warned us of how disgusting the restrooms in the churches were. Funny, when we got there, there was a modern church standing with clean restrooms! We enjoyed a lot of their hospitality; as soon as we got off, we set up ...