Armenia Stories


Churched-out

I wanted to get out of Yerevan ASAP,  but decided to try to quickly see a couple of sights in the morning before catching a bus with my new Polish friends from Denmark, Caroline and Michael.  I was up early and was rewarded with a view of Mt. Ararat from the balcony of the Penthouse Hostel.  I'll post the photo as soon as I can.  Khor Virap is a monaste...


Two very long, beautiful, crazy, bad days

The manager of my posh but cheap hotel hooked me up with a driver named Davit that works for him and we agreed to meet in the morning to go to Noravank - one of the most famous of Armenias many, many monasteries.  It wasn't far but the drive was spectacular.  The gorge leading up to the church is tall and narrow with caves and jagged cracks everywhere. ...


Hitch-hiking in style

By coincidence, my brother's high school friend is here in Armenia for a week doing some charity dentistry at a remote summer camp so I decided to find a way to get there and see what rural Armenia is like.  I got a minibus from Yerevan to Yeghegnadzor, the closest city (if you can call it that) and from there I was going to play it by ear.  The road we...


Shopping in the Twilight Zone

Considering that I have to return to Georgia again after visiting Armenia because the border between Armenia and Turkey are closed, I decided to head to Armenia before exploring any of the regions of western Georgia. After my brutal train ride to Baku, I decided to take a minibus to Yerevan instead. Armenia is quite a small country so most of the places...