Armenia at day time

After Kadri and Elina had left I decided to spend the remaining 5 days outside Georgia and left with Dagmar for a short trip to Armenia.


Very nice and very expensive: Market in City Centre.




Yerevan is compared to Tbilisi older, but looks much younger. There are building and construction sites all over the city. According to our Armenian friends there will be elections next year and the present president wants to finish as much as possible for a better record.


Our first sight visited: Garni Temple. The last remaining pagan temple in the whole area of the former Soviet Union.


Geghard Monastery outside Yerevan. One of the most atmospheric churches i have visited, with one of the most scenic and at the same time disgusting toilettes (see picture below for outside).




Thanks to a group of German parliamentarians who travelled with an Armenian singing group for cultural entertainment we where able to listen to some great singing with fantastic acoustic.


Men socializing in the the park of the most sacred church in Armenia: Echmiadzi. When we where there, there was a church service held. Really impressing and different from the ones I have seen so far.