Armenia 2024

Here is the main page covering our 15-day visit to Armenia, plus a slide show of pictures at the end.

After four years in Lisbon, partly waiting out the pandemic in 2020 and 2021, and various extended visits to Africa, we were ready to pick up and move for a while to a new region, the Caucasus, visiting here and neighboring Azerbaijan and Georgia, which was our “base camp” for our six months in the region.

For journal postings from Armenia, CLICK HERE. Here we planned to see much of this small country of about 3 million people, but learned that we could eagerly have spent much more time. Our visits included:

• Lesser Caucasian mountains in the north
• Haghpat and Sanahin, UNESCO World Heritage monasteries
• Yerevan, the capital, including several world-class museums
• Etchmiadzin, the center of the Armenian church
• Geghard Monastery, Zvarnots temple, and Garni temple near Yerevan
• Sevan Lake, including nature reserves
• A myriad of other churches and monasteries including Akhtali, Odzun, Saghmosavan & Hovhannavank

You browse the map below for where we’ve been in Armenia (and posted an article). Click a pushpin to find the posted articles from the marked locations. Zoom into the Yerevan area on the map so you can discover the many experiences we’ve been able to enjoy in the city.

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SLIDE SHOW HINT: If you’ve already seen the earlier pictures in the slide show, arrow back and forth quickly to jump around.