Armenian Stonehenge Older …
Ancestral Armenians shared a rich oral history with their Near Eastern neighbors, including a very old form of the Flood Epic, shared by Assyrians, Babylonians and Sumerians. Believed to be…
Armenia for Short Stay Travelers
Take a Walking Tour in Yerevan of Old Abovian Quarter, which combines graceful hallmarks of Armenia’s 19th century Belle Époque with the towering examples of the New Yerevan, modernist buildings…
Weekend in Stepanavan
Great! So we are going to explore mysteries and secret sites of Stepanavan this weekend. It's a small city on a dramatic green plateau beside the remarkable gorge of the…
Yerevan Summer Nights
Daytime heat cools down and the fresh and gentle wind calls everyone out from shelters. Very relaxing to loosely walk, enjoy the breeze, sit in outside cafes, watch fountains and…
Armenia Travel Blog
I want to share with you an informative and well designed, well-thought-out blog on traveling to Armenia. In a simple and easy to read format themes are presented about…
Exploring Armenia: Cultural Authentic and Sustainable
It has been two years ago there was an article in National Geographic Travel titled Exploring Armenia, post written by Kara Martson, who also worked on promotion of the movie…
Haghpat is a UNESCO World Heritage Site
Haghpat Monastery Haghpat (from the words hagh: “strong” and pat: “wall”, pop. 4092) is located inside the village of the same name, on a foothill of Mt. Surplich (Holy Lake). …
Armenian Food “Not Macdonaldized”
Eating out is a pleasure in Armenia; ingredients are fresh and wholesome (much of it organic by nature), and the choice of menus, especially in Yerevan, is impressive. Whether your…
Armenia’s Still Unknown?
When asking tour operators from US, Italy, France and other countries what to improve in Armenia's tour product, imagine, we heard: "have more presence in media", "talk about your country",…
Traveling to Armenia Year Round
Armenia experiences two phenomenons unique to mountainous countries: an “eternal spring” where wildflowers bloom in ever rising bands of color up mountain slopes through August, and an “eternal winter” on…