Lake Sevan, Armenia

... newly-fallen snow, with over a foot of old snow elsewhere. Walking back to the roadside motel before dusk, I had dinner there: fried Lake Sevan trout and potatoes with bread. In the morning, I walked four miles to the bus stop. In a snowstorm, a ...

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From the Steppe we travel down to the marginally less lofty heights of Lake Sevan, the highest alpine lake in the world. It's one of those facts which may one day win me 'Who Wants to Be a Millionaire' but for now is beautiful to behold. We divert from ...

... 're tart, but apparently a delicacy. I'll stick with the Armenian cognac we tried last night as a preferable delicacy! We follow Lake Sevan's shoreline until we come to a restaurant overlooking the lake. We climb the hill behind it to a small monastery. ...

... has been beautifully rebuilt and it looks like a petit Temple of Athena in Athens's Acropolis. After that we went north to Lake Sevan. Sevan is the name of the largest lake of Armenia and also a name of a city on its northern shore. Besides its beaches ...