After having a great time in Tbilisi we decided to take a mini bus to Yerevan. The drive did lead through the beautiful mountain area. Unfortunately the driver was driving like crazy, as being in a race driving as fast as possible, passing everywhere and it not all the holes in the street. Bernd was scared to death and several times was about to though up. Up until the mountains we did have a great view, especially due to the sun.
At the end we both survived and arrived after several hours of driving.
We were lucky quickly finding a good place to stay at so we did not have to waste much time searching for a room and begin making plans for the next days.
The first thing we decided to do is visiting the blue mosque. We both still remembered the blue mosque from Istanbul we visited years ago. This here is much smaller and not as much decorated but still very nice.
As you can see the weather was not as nice as the last days anymore. We had a mix of rain, snow and in the afternoon sun. Bad weather did not stop us from exploring and Bernd did make sure that he won't get wet, he always hid below the umbrella and let me stay in the rain/snow.
Our feet did take us through the rain to the opera where we started thinking of maybe going to an event inside.
From the opera we headed to the cascade complex climbing up millions of stairs. Which remind me on of my best friends birthday we celebrated in Kitzbühel. We did climb up the Hahnenkamm. Before we could get up there I needed to talk the girls into doing it, at the end they agreed but threatened me that I would need get along with their complaints, there were non at all.
And with Bernd ... well ... it was sort of surprising that my ears did not start bleeding. So different.
In our way back down we arrived at
Matenadaran, a museum close by. We also went in and did take a look at many old books there. One of the most interesting parts were the languages in there, for example books from Italy printed in Armenian and also other combinations. And there have been a lot of books.
All this walking did make us hungry so we went to an Armenian restaurant to get some local disses and have a short break. The food was great and gave us back some energy. From the restaurant we headed to the place of the republic. Which we already saw at night when we arrived in Yerevan.
Despite of getting much energy back from our lunch Bernd started complaining and wanted to go back to our hostel, I could at least get him to visit
Saint Gregory the Illuminator Cathedral. He did not regret going there, especially since the weather was much nicer and he could by some ice cream.
The next day we decided to go together with some other travellers to Etschmiadsin a town close by to Yerevan. We did build an international group making the conversations much more interesting. Japanese, Russian, Indonesian and us German guys.
During the night it got colder and it was snowing the howl day.
We did first take a look at some churches at the center of the town. What was new for us to see an open air church (you want to know more ?).
Bernd did hear some rumors about a treasure being around there so we started searching for it. We did not need that much time to find the treasure but some other people did get there before us and put it into a museum.
Since we did walk around in the cold weather we did decide to take a break at a restaurant or coffee, to not walk too far we just picked the one inside the church area and were positively surprised about the appearance. A nice medieval looking restaurant with much space in the basement.
Later that day we did get back to Yerevan and headed to the opera to join an event there. We both have never been there before so it was a new experience for us.
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