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Kars-Cildir-Ani: Mordor is Near Armenia?
... and the race to modernization could not be stopped. That being said, after 11pm, only ghosts roamed the streets every night that I was there.
I checked into the Hotel Gungoren, which is an over-rated hotel with the façade of all the modern amenities, but is an older and over-priced hotel (70TRY for 1ppl including kavahlti). I had to fill up Ms. Azzuri and for the first time saw downstream operations for all of the huge Central ...
Ani Ancient City
... to the heavily militarized eastern part of the country and that is the place where they can do last minute shopping.
We had a good night sleep and then had another day of rest. The scenery was variable: tunnels, snow covered mountain peaks, steppes. Just to take a break from looking outside the windows we took turns reading our books on the Kindle. The railroad has a single track and there were only several trains running to Kars, the Wild ...
De ruinestad Ani
De tragische geschiedenis van een prachtige stad, ooit de hoofdstad van het Armeense koninkrijk in de 10 de. eeuw, kort daarop veroverd door de Seldschoeken, nadien Mongolen en uiteindelijk verwoest door een aardbeving in 1339 en later opnieuw veroverd door Osmanen, Russen, Armenen en opnieuw Osmanen...Pas nu probeert men te redden wat bijna niet meer te redden is. Omdat het ons te druk (vooral kinderen) is direkt aan de ingang van Ani gaan we in de ...
Nobody Told me it was Offroad
... Pass I'm in wide open upland plains all the way to Ardahin. It's early so I look for accommodation. The dosshouses are a bit too basic even for me but I am directed by a young lady to the Ardahan Hotel. It looks nice! How much? But it says 50. Yes sir, but thats dollars. It's just over an hour to Kars so I take my leave of Ardahin.
What follows after I leave Ardahin is 40 kilometres of roadworks, occasionally hardpack, mostly gravel and mud. Not ...
25th - 26th September
... the Russian watchtowers on the other side of the gorge, in Armenia. The gorge is deep with a river running through it and it winds around the site, defining both the border of Ani, as well as the frontier with Turkey. The churches are each unique and have their own interest. The first is the church which is dedicated to the apostle of Armenia and holds a special place in their hearts. It is the only church at Ani that still has frescoes intact. All of ...
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