Meet The Czechmates!
Ann Wen, 7 time monsooner who first came along for Luxembourg, Australia, New Zealand, Oman, Qatar and Kuwait, asked if I would be free after my Dec 27-Jan 16 trip to the least visited countries in the world. Since she's never let me down, how could I? For "If you...
Meet The Monsooners Who Are Willing To Go Completely Off The Map!
I'm so blessed to be part of a community where if I ever find myself in even the most remote and least traveled countries in the world (yes including the #1 least visited at only 160 tourists a year, which is where we're celebrating New Year's in 2 weeks!),...
Happy Thans-Kyiv-ing!
Thanks Fanny for the pun of a title!I realized that whenever people ask for advice for what to see in Kiev and I look through my blog to rev up my memory again, all I have on Kiev is a crazy night out that began at the infamous Palata no. 6 (aka...
The Return To Yerevan
After 3 days in Artsakh it was time to return home. We woke up at 9am, had breakfast and quickly packed our bags ontop of Yerish's car, who had come just in time to drive us back to Yerevan. Instead of the southern route we took to reach Artsakh, we would return...
The Last Lights On The Right: Shoushi, Agdam, & Martakert
After a morning in Stepanakert we headed out towards the rest of the Karabakh region to explore other areas evidently affected by the recent clashes between Azerbaijan and Karabakh/Armenian forces.The first sign of the war was a tank memorial on a hill,...
Stepanakert And Never Look Back!
From Tatev we turned and drove up north towards the town Goris, famous for being the home to the Settlement of old Kores, a series of previous inhabited rock caves similar to the cave homes in Cappadocia. And thus began our final leg of our roadtrip...
Welcome To Tatev Airways
From Noravank we drove further southeast for Tatev, a 9th-century photogenic monastery that stands on the edge of a deep gorge of the Vorotan River and uniquely accessible by the Wings Of Tatev, which won the Guinness Book Of World Records for being the world's...
Noravank Me Later!
Leaving the foggy backdrop of Khor Virap behind, we drove further southeast to Noravank, another Armenian monastery built in the 13th century in a narrow gorge made by the Amaghu River. It's also free to enter! As the sun began to shine in,...
Where Are We Now?
Where Are We Next?
