Regineh Hotel Yerevan

... the country and Yerevan both for groups and individuals.<br><br> <br><br> Where to exchange money?<br><br> I wouldn't suggest changing a big sum in the Airport. While walking in the city, you'll notice a lot of exchange points with better exchange rate.<br><br> <br><br> About Armenia<br><br> Armenia is one of the most ancient countries in the world. The capital itself &#8211; Yerevan &#8211; is founded ...

... 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 ...

... the Main (Cathedral) of Armenia, we are in awe, simply and utterly beautiful, huge, the first one we went into a chamber where there was a tomb of a woman who had been stoned to death, the stones were displayed as well!!! The day was perfect as we wandered around each church, Ediie the taxi driver stayed with the taxi and took the opportunity to smoke:) We were away around 5 hours and the taxi cost 8000 AMD which is ...

... went to the UNESCO World Heritage sites of Sanahin and Haghpat (the name's as fun to say at it seems it would be) Monastaries. They are near the town of Alaverdi in the Debed Canyon, where the main industry is copper mining. These monastaries are from the 9th to 13th centuries. There's also an old bridge built by Queen Tamar of Georgia that was still in use by cars until about 25 years ago (they knew how to make bridges back in the good old days....). The churches ...

... 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 ...

... traffic is organized, there are zebras &amp; traffic lights, bus stops (even with passing marshrutkas' numbers!), cheep jazz cafés around Opera - altogether it has definitely a Spanish city look, only there are no motorbikes at all. There are no real sights, but still it's a pleasant city to be in, especially in evenings. I was looking forward to see Mt. Ararat but never managed because of the haze. I start by looking at modern Surp Grigor Lusavorich Catherdral near the marshrutka ...

My first taste of Armenia was a marshrutka ride from Tbilisi to Yerevan, from capital to capital, across snowy mountain passes, through deep gorges, and across snowy highlands with small towns, hay piled next to homes to last the long winter. Dropped at an unmarked, closed avtovokzal, I walked to a nearby gas station to reconnoiter and soon was passing the Yerevan Brandy Factory, crossing the Hrazdan River, and walking through downtown Yerevan, as the sun set ...

... stores; teenagers would drive around in SUVs standing through the sunroof with super-soakersin hand and do drive-by sprayings! I was soaked completely! The MFA of Iran finally got back to me. I submitted my paperwork four months ago to acquire a visa to enter Iran. The MFA approved my visa but, as it took them so long to get back to me, I had just bought my plane ticket from Baku to Athens five days ago!! I guess Iran is not in the cards this time.

Fra Georgiu til ArmeniuYfirgaf Georgiu med sorg i hjarta i gaer og helt yfir til Armeniu. Vid attum von alveg eins von a langri dvol a landamaerunum en tad gekk nu svona thokkalega fyrir sig.Tad er ekki long keyrsla fra Tblisi ad landamaerunum og vid bidum i dagoda stund Georgiu megin eftir leyfi til ad halda inn a einskismannslandid. Thegar tad var veitt for Leidangursforinginn med oll vegabref og umsoknir um aritanir sem buid var ad fylla ut med godum ...

... We went to a pagan temple, built in a Roman style, where they sacrificed living animals to their sun-god. The ultimate destination was the monastery at Ghegard. It was built a long time ago (duh!) and we felt that God's spirit was still dwelling in that place. The church was mainly made out of rocks, which echoes amazingly, and provides great acoustics. Grace to these acousitics, we stood in a circle in one of the rooms and started ...