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...
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,...
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 into...
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...
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, we took...
Turning in early last night, we woke up today at 8am to be picked up by our hired driver, Yerish, for our long drive into eastern Armenia. After spending half an hour figuring out how to strap our luggage to the roof of our car, we drove a little under an hour...
Just tried real hard with punning the title just now, with special thanks to Fanny and Mihaela for the inspiration. And about last night… Oh boy. Recovering from a night we’ll all joke and laugh about years to come (“happy birthday”...
